Revolt in 2100 (Future History, Vol. 3)

Imagine a Televangelist America. Graft in a bit of Hitler and the Spanish Inquisition. Now you have the setting for this story. America has become a theocracy controlled by Nehemiah Scudder, a corrupt & hypocritical "prophet." This book showcases Heinlein's commitment to individual liberties. Writing during the shame of the McCarthy era Communist hunts, Heinlein wrote a story that damned the political repression of his own era and continues to inspire freedom loving people even now. It's a simple story line. Naive boy meets forbidden girl. Boy contracts near fatal case of puppy love. Boy & girl must escape intolerable situation. Boy & girl join the underground (literally) resistance. Each matures & moves on. A revolution ensues. During this physical journey into manhood, John Lyle (the hero) must also take a spiritual journey, one in which he disentangles himself from mental slavery and becomes a free and free-thinking man. Five stars for ideology & political courage. Five stars for managing to avoid being preachy about this ideology. Five stars for a good-old Heinlein read. A great present for that 13 year-old you don't want to buy yet-another-video-game. With a court selected "President" and his appointed Attorney General who stated "America has no King but Jesus," (and who annoints himself with Crisco) can Nehemiah Scudder be far off? I'll see you all in the F.U.S.A.(If you'd like to respond to this review, click on the "about me" link, above, to get my email address. Thanks!)

This was Robert Heinlein's very first published novel (actually a novella... but hey) and it still stands up well in the wake of all that he has published since. It has a somewhat cliched beginning, but it quickly gets past that and into a well-written story. Like a lot of early RAH, it is told in first-person, and it serves this story well. It's a pretty gripping book, and it'll keep you reading. Reccommended.

The second American Revolution, showing how the individual is empowered to change things for the better. A complete demonstration of the affects and effects of Religon and Politics on each other Society in general and People in particular. This gripping novel will keep you on the edge of your seat to its ironic ending.

Forget about "It was the best of times it was the worst of times" Heinlein's "It all started the day we hung the lawyers" gets this story going and it doesn't quit. This is not ray gun and rocket sci-fi, this is real people in plausable situations that just haven't happened yet.

A collection of excellent novella! If you enjoy the thrills of secrecy, mixed with "What if..." scenarios, this book is for you. It gripped me with the strength of a lion