Midwest Book Review
Farnham is a self-made man who sees nuclear war coming and who builds a shelter under his house; only to find it thrust into a strange universe when the bomb explodes. In this future world all civilization in the northern hemisphere has long been destroyed, and Farnham and his family are fit to be slaves under the new regime. Heinlein's story is as engrossing now as it was in its original form decades ago.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A thermonuclear blast propels Hugh Farnham and his family 2,000 years into the future, where civilization has undergone dramatic changes. In the new world order, being born African made one a Lord of Creation, while Farnham's race--responsible for the nuclear holocaust--was fit only for slavery. However, the Farnhams have no intentions of being slaves.

SYNOPSIS

Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apoicalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.

But Farnham's small group had barely settled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they found that they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapulted Farnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways than one.