- Fiction in English, Fiction, American Science fiction, Utopias
Synopsis courtesy of GoodReads : Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century.
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Classical in form, cool, contemporary and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 204
- Publisher
- Fantasy Press, Gregg Press, New American Library
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- gre, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780451018915
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“Their problems were solved: the poor they no longer had with them; the sick, the lame, the halt, and the blind were historic memories; the ancient causes of war no longer obtained; they had more freedom than Man has ever enjoyed.”
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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