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by: Robert A. Heinlein
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743435611
ISBN: 0743435613
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: August 27, 2002
Publisher: Baen
Sales Rank: 488148
Studio: Baen
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Hamilton Felix is the ultimate man, the end product of highly refined applied genetics in a world that has long since banished disease, hunger, and war. But no one counted on what might happen if this superman got recruited by a cabal of dissident revolutionaries...
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Rating:  - A good effort at an early novel.
"Beyond This Horizon" was published in the early 1940s. I first read it in the mid-1950s. Perhaps it has not aged as well as some of Heinlein's later efforts. However, it was good for the times.
The thing is, some of the story retains its sheen. While some of the various exchanges grate on some of today's sensibilities, some of the underlaying plot is still of strong interest today. I can't give this the top rating, but I feel that it is worth a really good rating.
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Rating:  - Good, Classic Work
People who knock on this work as "the worst of Heinlein" obviously haven't taken time to understand it. This is a masterpiece. But it is a subtle masterpiece. If you buy this copy, I'd suggest you also check out the essay in the beginning of the "Gregg Press science fiction series" version. It explains some important details that the average reader may miss. Most prominently, it calls the readers attention to a particular transition that occurs on a particular page in the second half of the novel. Simply ... Read More
Rating:  - Immature Heinlein
"However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring."
But not by much.
Of course there's something fine in the book, and that's because Heinlein wrote it: the fun of the imagined future, twinkling with unexplored wonders, the unbelievable and yet somehow unobjectionable superwit of the characters, (the erotic dominant/submissive roleplay), the guns. Scientific explanations still sound fresh and informative, and one forgives the author when he begins directly addressing the ... Read More
Rating: - An imaginative future that never was
As with many Heinlein novels, Beyond This Horizon isn't so much a straightforward narrative as it is an excuse to throw as many bizarre locales and situations at the reader as will fit between the covers. Indeed, the title betrays the author's intent, much like H. G. Wells's The Shape of Things to Come, in that it places the depiction of a possible future as the purpose of the book; the plot takes second place, existing primarily as a convenient hook on which to hang the various prognostications.
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Rating:  - Early Heinlein with all his faults
Genetic engineering, Second Amendment implications, the war between the sexes, life after death, telepathy -- just what is this book about?
It meanders through numerous half-baked subplots (and the pointless intrusion of a twentieth century time traveler), only really dealing with genetics in detail, until it finally just peters out (presumably when the word count was sufficient for Astounding serialization in 1942).
Not only is it stuffed with Heinlein's usual lectures and pontificating, ... Read More
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