- Fiction, Twenty-first century, Time travel in fiction, Twenty-first century in fiction
SciFi - Originally written in 1938-9 but never published, RAH's first novel is a raw work filled with themes used throughout his career. Perry Nelson, a Navy flier, is killed in an auto accident in 1938; he awakens in 2086 and spends the novel contrasting reality of 1938 with the semi-utopian 2086.
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Raw, earnest, grave and cool.
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 263
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Inc., Pocket Books, The Virginia Edition
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9783945493519
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“"Look out!" The cry broke involuntarily from Perry Nelson's lips as he twisted the steering wheel.”
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science
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