{"product_id":"9781439134436","title":"Farnham's Freehold","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the grand masters of science fiction.\" – \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50079027658992,"sku":"9781439134436","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439134436","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}