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Just listened to Robert Heinlein's first novel. It was unpublished until 2004, as it was rejected and never sold. It is rather illustrative of his later works, as his views on several things were outlined early on in it that became prominent in the latter period of his writing.
Here's the freaky part. The book is about a guy that is run off a cliff, and then wakes up in a snow covered mountain almost one hundred and fifty years later. In the early part of the book, Heinlein outlines the intervening years. He talks about a united Europe with a single currency. He speaks of the president getting impeachment proceedings in the early seventies. (Philip K. Dick also did that. Double creepy) and the kicker -- Manhattan destroyed in December of 2003 by two copters using explosives, with a specific target the financial side of things.
Whoa. A little too close to the truth. I know that even a blind squrrel finds a nut sometimes, but that's a bit to specific for my tastes. Especially for a book written in 1939.
I think the title was something like "For All Us Answered."
Here's the freaky part. The book is about a guy that is run off a cliff, and then wakes up in a snow covered mountain almost one hundred and fifty years later. In the early part of the book, Heinlein outlines the intervening years. He talks about a united Europe with a single currency. He speaks of the president getting impeachment proceedings in the early seventies. (Philip K. Dick also did that. Double creepy) and the kicker -- Manhattan destroyed in December of 2003 by two copters using explosives, with a specific target the financial side of things.
Whoa. A little too close to the truth. I know that even a blind squrrel finds a nut sometimes, but that's a bit to specific for my tastes. Especially for a book written in 1939.
I think the title was something like "For All Us Answered."
