{"product_id":"9781439134436","title":"Farnham's Freehold","description":"\u003cb\u003eA science fiction classic, with an \u003cb\u003eall-new celebrity introduction\u003c\/b\u003e and afterword!  A nuclear holocaust throws a brave and tough-minded family into a future where they are considered traitors and sub-humans and where they must fight tooth-and-claw to avoid becoming slaves to the benighted survivors of the war. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Robert A. Heinlein classic reissued with an all new celebrity forward by noted Heinlein biographer Bill Patterson and afterword penned by three-time award-winner for fan writing and science fiction scholar John Hertz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s a cross-time fight for freedom as a family retreats to a bomb shelter during a nuclear attack – only to emerge hundreds of years in the future, thrown forward in time by the blasts.  There lifeboat ethics rule as they struggle to survive…until they’re discovered by up-time humans, the survivors of the apocalypse.  These survivors are of African descent.  Down-time humans – in fact, all of the European-descended – are held guilty for the state into which the world has fallen and designated as automatic slaves.  The only escape is to find a way back down-time, to change events sufficiently to make absolute certain this nightmare future never get a chance to \u003ci\u003ehappen\u003c\/i\u003e in the first place!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Robert A. Heinlein:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the great writer of such fiction in the world.\" – Stephen King. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the grand masters of science fiction.\" –  \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Heinlein, Robert A.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Science Fiction)","offer_id":44304830333152,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_9f2f3107-4ce1-41fd-9815-f25ef001c30a.jpg?v=1698684401","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9781439134436","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}