Beyond This Horizon: Library Edition

from LisCarey

Okay, this one isn't new, and this isn't the first time I've read it. Some of the science in it was invalidated the year after it was first published, and social credit isn't a widely credited economic theory these days. I have severe doubts about the theory that "An armed society is a polite soc...

from laura1814

This book is densely packed with philosophical musings on the nature of society and of man. It is both utopian and dis-utopian. It shows what happens after a few centuries of selective genetic breeding-- not genetic engineering, precisely, but a long-term view of breeding to promote certain trait...

from RandyStafford

My reactions to reading this novel in 1994. Spoilers follow. I originally read this novel because it contains, David Brin said in an essay on gun control, Heinlein's famous remark, "An armed society is a polite society." I expected an extended rumination on the viability of a society which allows...

from laura1814

This book is densely packed with philosophical musings on the nature of society and of man. It is both utopian and dis-utopian. It shows what happens after a few centuries of selective genetic breeding-- not genetic engineering, precisely, but a long-term view of breeding to promote certain trait...

from EmScape

This novel is short on action and long on info-dump. Issues of philosophy and economics are explored to great extent. Heinlein has some very well-reasoned ideas about how an Utopian society should be run. Citizens go about armed, duels to the death are frequent, and politeness is the order of the...