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 to happen in the first place!
About Robert A. Heinlein:
"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the great
writer of such fiction in the world." - Stephen King.
"One of the grand masters of science fiction." - Wall Street Journal
