Le doy dos estrellas porque no puedo dar 1.5 y porque incluso libros peores como La Gloria es el Camino merecen una estrella, o un cero explícito, que desafortunadamente no es una opción. Sin embargo, este es bastante malo. Hugh Farnham, patriota de ideas claras, está listo para las bombas cuando caigan, con su refugio antibombas asombrosamente bien equipado, así que, aunque sin ninguna razón lógica las bombas lancen su refugio (junto con su familia y un par de allegados más) hacia el futuro, es...

Leí un resumen demasiado simplificado de este libro que decía algo así: un veterano libertario salva a su familia en un refugio antiaéreo, es transportado 2000 años al futuro, entra en modo superviviente y luego se topa con una civilización avanzada donde los negros son la raza elegida y que gobiernan sobre un sistema de esclavitud racialmente determinado.Sucinto.Esto podría haberse acortado, reduciendo la primera mitad con todo el desarrollo del superviviente, pasando más rápido a la segunda mi...

Un tipo libertario aficionado al bridge es alcanzado por un arma nuclear y termina en un mundo futuro donde los blancos son esclavizados por los negros.

Bueno, ya ven por qué dejé de jugar al bridge.

Esta premisa de *La Fortaleza de Farnham* de Robert A. Heinlein es, digamos, controvertida. Si buscas reseñas de libros que te hagan pensar y quizá te indignen un poco, este es tu libro. No apto para pusilánimes.

Farnham's Freehold is one of Heinlein's most neglected novels from his middle period, not as well-received or remembered as his other 1960s books: Glory Road, the iconic pair of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, or his final juvenile, Podkayne of Mars. It's got some problematic elements that struck me this time that didn't bother me on my first reading way-back-when, but I enjoyed it and think it's still a worthwhile book. It's a stand-alone, not part of his famous fut...

Like Glory Road, this is almost 2 books. The first one focuses on the Cold War, an atomic attack, & then a survival story. I liked it a lot. RAH actually managed some subtlety with his characters at times. They weren't all perfect & some of the imperfections were well used later in the book. For instance, Karen's perfection was marred by her aping black slave speech that was common to older movies of the time & it's brought up later to great advantage. It's at least partially autobio...

There aren’t many better recommendations for a book than ‘Sick as a dog but couldn’t put it down’. This is one of those.It works for survivalists, bridge players, parallel worldists, philosophers, post-catastrophists, cannibals looking for new recipes and anybody with Woody Allen’s tastes.It’s gotta be a fav of his. Those naked young things in the bunker with the middle-aged unattractive but pizazzy leader, one his daughter. Although his daughter confesses of the three breeding partners availabl...

I cannot remember the last time I read this novel by RAH (although GR tells me it was 10 years ago, really ?). Anyway my 1976 corgi SF collectors library edition split in half as I was reading, disappointing as its only 47 years old, what is the world coming to ??On to more serious topics, this is feeling a little dated ( published 64 so understandable), not just in the technology aspect but also the interpersonal aspects. Some may call it mildly racist, but it was written in a different time to...

Gross, racist, inappropriate and very, very dated. The women characters are insulting and his labeling of Black people as cannibals is racist.Especially considering the fact white men absolutely were cannibals during chattel slavery, a fact rarely discussed in the history of slavery and one I presume this author didn't know.Do read The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard and discover just how wrong and insulting this novel is.West Af...

This isn't my favorite book by Heinlein, but it certainly isn't my least favorite (that honor is held by "The Number of the Beast" or "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"). I give it 4 stars - should be 3.5 - because it has a lot of good ideas running through it, although it isn't as well written as many of his novels. Still, I really liked it as a teen back in the 70's. Like "Stranger in a Strange Land", it hasn't aged as well, though.Written at the height of the cold war, back before the civil ri...

My Heinlein phase is continuing.If you are easily offended by your views (or societies givens) being challenged or called into question Heinlein is not an author for you.Heinlein is probably the best author that I have found in the Science Fiction category. His futuristic worlds provide an excellent commentary of our current social life as well as remarkable insight into the human psyche. His characters are multi-dimensional and some of his best characters are very strong women. He writes women ...