Farnham's Freehold |
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Author:
| Heinlein, Robert A. |
ISBN: | 978-0-671-72206-7 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1994 |
Publisher: | Baen Books
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $7.99 |
Book Description:
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You Would Have Peace? Then Prepare forWar! Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man.and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelterunder his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expectedwas that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart thefabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other humanbeings. More Description You Would Have Peace? Then Prepare forWar!
Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man.and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelterunder his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expectedwas that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart thefabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other humanbeings.
But Farnham's small group had barelysettled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they foundthat they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapultedFarnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in thenorthern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways thanone.
In the new world order, Farnham and hisfamily, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fitonly to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham had no intention ofbeing anybody's slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reachedthroughout the world. Even if he managed to escape. where could he runto...?