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Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A science fiction classic, with an all-new celebrity introduction 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. A 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. It’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 t

Who reads Farnham's Freehold?

Author

Robert A. Heinlein

Publisher

Baen ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster

Published

1964

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671722067

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Science Fiction, Science

Rating

3.55 / 5 (214 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14