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Summary: First of all, I am a huge Heinlein fan...
Review: ... and this book really appealed to me for a few reasons. 1) Two stories (four, if you count the "Coventry" and "Misfit" as seperate, ("Coventry" taking place after "Revolt in 2100", and "Misfit" before "Methuselah's Children") It really is a great read ... Heinlein has a way of making his characters more than just written words on a page. When I was finished with the book, I knew John Lyle, and Zeb and Maggie... I have felt the way they had... and RAH has a way of bringing out the emotions and thoughts of his characters, not just superficial actions and words.... and who can't love Lazarus' witty reportie, or Libby's mathematical brilliance?
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Summary: Spiritual fuel for Transhuman aspirants.
Review: Cryonicists and other immortalists love "Methuselah's Children," for obvious reasons. The males among us would like to be model ourselves on Lazarus Long, at least in his earlier stages. Unfortunately Heinlein's imagination faltered in "Time Enough for Love" and later novels, where he has Lazarus living a succession of recognizably human lives, over and over again across the centuries, instead of reaching for something that an ordinary, short-lived human wouldn't have contemplated doing or thinking or becoming.Nonetheless, Heinlein's novels can supply the Transhumanist with spiritual fuel, provided that you keep him in perspective. Heinlein wound up writing science fiction almost by default because he was an invalid, and thus had to transform his desire for a more active life into his fantasies of superior health and longevity, space travel, interstellar wars, political revolutions and polymorphous-perverse sex. His fantasies about the options available to the superior man or woman have to be taken with a grain of salt, much like the similar fantasies of the agoraphobic Ayn Rand. Although novels are as legitimate a source of ideas for practical living as anything else, the young, impressionable youngsters (and the chronologically older individuals still stuck with an adolescent psychology) who think Heinlein could provide a guide to real life need to be careful.
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Summary: Spiritual fuel for Transhuman aspirants.
Review: Cryonicists and other immortalists love "Methuselah's Children," for obvious reasons. The males among us would like to be model ourselves on Lazarus Long, at least in his earlier stages. Unfortunately Heinlein's imagination faltered in "Time Enough for Love" and later novels, where he has Lazarus living a succession of recognizably human lives, over and over again across the centuries, instead of reaching for something that an ordinary, short-lived human wouldn't have contemplated doing or thinking or becoming. Nonetheless, Heinlein's novels can supply the Transhumanist with spiritual fuel, provided that you keep him in perspective. Heinlein wound up writing science fiction almost by default because he was an invalid, and thus had to transform his desire for a more active life into his fantasies of superior health and longevity, space travel, interstellar wars, political revolutions and polymorphous-perverse sex. His fantasies about the options available to the superior man or woman have to be taken with a grain of salt, much like the similar fantasies of the agoraphobic Ayn Rand. Although novels are as legitimate a source of ideas for practical living as anything else, the young, impressionable youngsters (and the chronologically older individuals still stuck with an adolescent psychology) who think Heinlein could provide a guide to real life need to be careful.
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Summary: I must have missed something...
Review: I couldn't put this book down...I just had to find the section where it finally got good enough to have been rated so highly by other readers. Unfortunately, I never found it. The plot was bland. The characters were dull. It was just a story. It wasn't good, it wasn't bad, but I surely would not recommend buying this book to anyone and I don't plan on buying any more from this author.
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Summary: Timeless Masterpiece of High Sci-Fi
Review: I first read Revolt in 2100 when I was in seventh grade, initiating a life-long interest in science fiction. The political leanings of Heinlein were unapparent to me then. Now I see society reflecting them in general, libertarian in nature. Anyone wishing to initiate their children into a love of sf and reading in general should give this book to them, it will grab them by their imaginations and not let go. Methuselah's Children was the second book I grabbed from our library's shelves, so this double edition is the perfect gift!
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Summary: lovely heinlein, just lovely
Review: if you have not surmised, you are getting two books. in revolt, you are getting three short stories if this goes on, details the not so distant future, where america is isolated from the remainder of the world, through the implementation of a religous police state coventry takes place after the 'revolt'
and deals with america as it could be...with 'liberty and justice for all'...as long as the all, want such things misfits, introduces us to a wonderful young man...and a great heinlein character...andrew jackson libby, and details the creation of a space station methuselah's children, is the first in the tales of lazarus long wonderful wonderful stuff
fun technological things, and interesting plot developments.
if you have not read and of the other lazarus long stuff...read this first...i read 'time enough for love' before i read this...and once i read this, i wished i had read this first.
you can do it the other way, but a lot of things are clearer if you go in order
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Summary: A Good Book with Modern Implications
Review: Revolt in 2100: Methusela's Children contains four separate Heinlein stories. The stories are grouped in chronological order and are all set in the same science fiction 'universe,' although they do not all directly related to one another. Like much of Robert Heinlein's work, Revolt in 2100 comments on modern political and social issues, while simultaneously entertaining all who read it. The first story, Revolt in 2100, is startlingly relavent to today's times. In the story, America has been taken over by Religious Fundamentalists (the 'American Ayatollas' as one reviewer describes them). Heinlein shrewdly picks apart religious fundamentalism in this story, while not attacking the concept of religion itself. I was extremely disappointed by the second story in the collection. I have read almost every single Heinlein science fiction noveland this second story was by far the worst. The plot has a beginning and a middle, then seems to sputter with no resolution. It left me wondering, "What the heck?!" The third story of Revolt in 2100 presents a dystopian - or utopian, depending how you look at it - America in which every American is required by law to be nice to everyone else. The punishment for any 'anti-social' act is banishment to a place with greater personal liberties, but also less personal security. Like the first one, this story is relavent to our times in that it deals with the contemporary struggle between civil liberties and personal security security The fourth novella is about a group of Americans who have acheived amazingly long life, but are persecuted by their short-lived peers and forced off the planet Earth. Although not the same caliber as Revolt in 2100, this story is nevertheless a fun and engaging Heinlein story. Revolt in 2100: Methusela's Children shows that one rotten apple doesn't always spoil the barrel. I wholeheartedly reccomend it regardless of whether you're a longtime Heinlein fan or a first time reader.
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Summary: A Good Book with Modern Implications
Review: Revolt in 2100: Methusela's Children contains four separate Heinlein stories. The stories are grouped in chronological order and are all set in the same science fiction 'universe,' although they do not all directly related to one another. Like much of Robert Heinlein's work, Revolt in 2100 comments on modern political and social issues, while simultaneously entertaining all who read it. The first story, Revolt in 2100, is startlingly relavent to today's times. In the story, America has been taken over by Religious Fundamentalists (the 'American Ayatollas' as one reviewer describes them). Heinlein shrewdly picks apart religious fundamentalism in this story, while not attacking the concept of religion itself. I was extremely disappointed by the second story in the collection. I have read almost every single Heinlein science fiction noveland this second story was by far the worst. The plot has a beginning and a middle, then seems to sputter with no resolution. It left me wondering, "What the heck?!" The third story of Revolt in 2100 presents a dystopian - or utopian, depending how you look at it - America in which every American is required by law to be nice to everyone else. The punishment for any 'anti-social' act is banishment to a place with greater personal liberties, but also less personal security. Like the first one, this story is relavent to our times in that it deals with the contemporary struggle between civil liberties and personal security security The fourth novella is about a group of Americans who have acheived amazingly long life, but are persecuted by their short-lived peers and forced off the planet Earth. Although not the same caliber as Revolt in 2100, this story is nevertheless a fun and engaging Heinlein story. Revolt in 2100: Methusela's Children shows that one rotten apple doesn't always spoil the barrel. I wholeheartedly reccomend it regardless of whether you're a longtime Heinlein fan or a first time reader.
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Summary: Nothing this man writes should be pasted up!!
Review: Robert A. Heinlein spins another tale the corners man in and shows all of his glory, as well as man's greed and stupidity. No writer I can think of off hand can entertian and make one think at the same time like Mr. Heinlein. We are a poorer world without him.
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Summary: 3 1/2-4 stars for Revolt, 5 for Methuselah's Children
Review: The two books (and four stories) that are included in this collection include the two most famous of the "Future History" stories, -If This Goes On and Metheselah's Children (the entire series in in the omnibus short story collection The Past Through Tomorrow as well as in the two previous collections The Man Who Sold the Man and the Green Hills of Earth). If This Goes On is a good story once you get into it. It starts out a little bit too cliched at first, and is perhaps a bit unrealistic, but it is a good reader and a page-turner. The next two stories, the shorts Covenant and Misfit aren't that good in themselves (although Covenant starts out very well) serve to set up the last story in the collection, Methuselah's Children. Now, MT, on the other hand, is one of the best Heinlein stories that I have thus far read. The story is very exciting, fast-paced and suspenseful, it is also a page-turner. Oh, and it stars LAZARUS LONG. Required reading before you dive into Time Enough For Love. The only thing I don't like about this otherwise excellent story is that Heinlein says that the Howard Families enjoy what is basically immortality simply because they selectively bred families that had histories of long lives. This is impossible. But then again, Heinlein never was a "hard" SF writer, indeed he basically introduced the social aspects into science fiction, which is the main underlying theme and foundation of these stories (and indeed of the entire Future History). All in all, reccommended reading for Heinlein fans.
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