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Classic Heinlein. Short-sighted utopians in a futurist society recruit a disaffected "superior" man, and get far more than they bargain for. With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel.
Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century.
They should all have been very happy....
But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy.
However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman is definitely not a good idea....
Biographie de l'auteur
Robert A. Heinlein, four-time winner of the Hugo Award and recipient of three Retro Hugos, received the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. His worldwide bestsellers have been translated into 22 languages and include Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. His long-lost first novel, For Us, the Living, was recently published by Scribner and Pocket Books.
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Beyond This Horizon This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. N° de réf. du vendeur 7719-9780450032899
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Beyond This Horizon
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New English Library Ltd, London, 1983
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Soft cover. Etat : Fine. A fine paperback copy of Beyond This Horizon by Robert Heinlein, in fantastic condition. A tight and clean copy with no inscriptions, an unbroken spine, and no creasing to the cover. Just some age tanning to page edges. 204pp. (11x18cm). Please contact us for any more information. N° de réf. du vendeur 1676
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New English Library, 1985
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Paperback. Etat : Good. Beyond This Horizon (1985) by Robert A. Heinlein New English Library ISBN: 9780450032899 Condition: Good Robert A. Heinlein?s Beyond This Horizon is one of those wonderfully ambitious science-fiction novels in which humanity has apparently solved several enormous social problems and immediately set about creating a fresh batch of extremely complicated ones. Originally published in the 1940s, the novel imagines a future society transformed by selective breeding, advanced medicine, genetic planning and a level of material abundance that means most ordinary economic problems have largely disappeared. Which sounds excellent, right up until everyone starts arguing about what sort of humans ought to exist in the first place. At the centre of the story is Hamilton Felix, a man living in a world where genetic inheritance has become something people actually discuss deliberately rather than merely discovering through family resemblance and unfortunate hairlines. This future civilisation has achieved extraordinary things. Disease has been greatly reduced, technology has removed much of the hardship associated with daily life, and carefully controlled breeding programmes have produced generations of increasingly healthy people. Naturally, this has not made society simple. Heinlein was never especially interested in futures where everyone sits around peacefully enjoying improved public transport. His societies usually arrive with philosophical arguments, political complications, odd customs and at least one character prepared to explain why everybody else has misunderstood civilisation. Beyond This Horizon is no exception. The book explores questions about genetics, freedom, individuality, social planning and the dangerous assumption that because something can be engineered, it necessarily should be. The future presented here is not simply utopian or dystopian; it is much more awkward than that. People live comfortably, but the structure beneath that comfort raises difficult questions. Who decides which traits are desirable? How much planning is too much planning? What happens when scientific advancement starts interfering with ideas of personal choice? And perhaps most importantly: if humanity finally eliminates most of its problems, will humanity quietly enjoy the achievement? Obviously not. There is also a wonderfully odd cultural mixture running through the book. The society is technologically advanced yet retains customs that feel almost deliberately archaic, including personal weapons and elaborate ideas about honour. Heinlein clearly enjoyed creating futures in which technological progress did not automatically make people behave like emotionally balanced committee members. Hamilton moves through this world encountering conspiracies, social tensions and questions about the future direction of the human species. What begins as speculative sociology gradually develops into something broader, mixing political intrigue, science-fiction ideas and Heinlein?s characteristic fascination with unconventional social systems. It is particularly interesting today because genetic engineering is no longer purely the stuff of speculative fiction. Modern science has made some of the questions Heinlein was playing with considerably less theoretical, even if we have fortunately not yet reached the point where prospective parents are issued spreadsheets and asked to select preferred personality traits. The novel also displays many of the themes that would later become strongly associated with Heinlein: individual liberty, distrust of unnecessary authority, unconventional social arrangements and the persistent suspicion that competent people should probably be left alone to get on with things. Whether you agree with all of Heinlein?s conclusions is almost beside the point. Half the enjoyment comes from watching him construct a society, poke holes in it, argue with himself through various characters and then introduce another complication before anyone has had time to recover. This 1985 New English Library edition offers a classic slice of early Heinlein: intellectually restless, politically provocative, occasionally peculiar and full of ideas that remain surprisingly thought-provoking decades after they were written. An excellent choice for Heinlein collectors, Golden Age science-fiction enthusiasts, readers interested in speculative genetics, or anyone who enjoys stories about people solving humanity?s future while being only moderately successful at understanding humanity itself. This copy is in Good condition , meaning it shows the respectable signs of having already survived part of the future Heinlein was attempting to imagine. 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Paperback: 7¼" x 4¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Gordon C Davies (illustrateur). 1978 Edition. © 1948: A stand-alone novel by Robert A Heinlein. 1st printing of 1978 edition:- Synopsis: Felix Hamilton lives in a world free of poverty, sickness and war - a world with every semblance of perfection. But beneath the surface revolution simmers, as a dangerous cult of fanatics prepares to make its move. When Hamilton involves himself in their affairs the authorities are alarmed. For he is the latest stage in their grand design, the breeding of a new super-race. Felix is risking not merely his own life but the future of humanity:- Review(s): "Bears out the premise that good science fiction is good fiction":- (original cost £0.85). N° de réf. du vendeur 18.004.00066
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