For Us, the Living (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Heinlein
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2086
- Setting: Reno and Lake Tahoe, Nevada
- Principal Characters: Perry Nelson, Diana, Master Cathcart, Bernard, Master Hedrick, Olga
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Future, Twenty-first century, Accidents, Nevada, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
- Locales: Reno, NV
For Us, the Living is the story of a man who finds himself miraculously translated from the time of his normal existence to a future many years hence. The circumstances under which this novel was published bear more than a passing resemblance to its fantasy premise. For Us, the Living is the first novel written by Robert A. Heinlein, an enormously influential writer of science fiction and the first writer of genre science fiction to crack the fiction best-seller list. Heinlein wrote the novel in 1938, while an as-yet-unpublished author and shopped it around to several...
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