An edition of Beyond This Horizon (1948)

Beyond This Horizon

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An edition of Beyond This Horizon (1948)

Beyond This Horizon

  • 4.33 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 34 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

An intriguing novel by the dean of space-age fiction -- the story of a future Earth where science and technology have solved all problems except the why of life.

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Pages
158

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Beyond This Horizon
Beyond This Horizon
Oct 07, 2014, Baen
paperback
Cover of: Beyond this horizon
Beyond this horizon
2001, Baen Books, Distributed by Simon & Schuster
in English
Cover of: Beyond This Horizon
Beyond This Horizon
1964, The New American Library of Canada Limited
Paperback
Cover of: Beyond This Horizon
Beyond This Horizon
December 1, 1960, Roc
Paperback
Cover of: Beyond this Horizon
Beyond this Horizon
December 1, 1960, Roc
in English
Cover of: Beyond this horizon
Beyond this horizon
1960, New American Library
in English
Cover of: Beyond this horizon
Beyond this horizon
1948, Fantasy Press
in English - 1st ed.

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Toronto, Canada

First Sentence

"Their problems were solved: the poor they no longer had with them; the sick, the lame, the halt, and the blind were historic memories; the ancient causes of war no longer obtained; they had more freedom than Man has ever enjoyed."

Edition Notes

Series
Signet Books
Copyright Date
1948

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
158
Dimensions
18 x 10.5 x 1 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL49833616M

Work Description

Synopsis courtesy of GoodReads : Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century.
They should all have been very happy....
But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy.
However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman was definitely not a good idea....

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