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Beyond This Horizon

Robert A. Heinlein

First published June 1948
Type Novel

<b>From the front flap of a 2001 Baen reprint:</b> "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. <p>They should all have been very happy... <p>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. <p>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..."

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2018 Retro Hugo Award Best Novel Winner

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1948 Cover Beyond This Horizon Fantasy Press Novel
1952 Cover Beyond This Horizon Grosset & Dunlap Novel
December 1960 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library Novel
1964 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library Novel
August 1964 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet Novel 5
August 1964 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library of Canada Novel 5
1966 Cover A Robert Heinlein Omnibus Sidgwick & Jackson Omnibus
August 1966 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library of Canada Novel 5
1967 Cover Beyond This Horizon Panther Novel 7
November 1970 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library of Canada Novel 5
1972 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet Novel 5
1973 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library Novel 5
1974 Cover Beyond This Horizon Panther Novel 7
1975 Cover Beyond This Horizon Panther Novel 7
1976 Beyond This Horizon First Edition Library Novel
1976 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet Novel 5
April 1978 Cover Beyond This Horizon New English Library Novel
December 1979 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library Novel
1980 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library Novel 5
April 1981 Beyond This Horizon Gregg Press Novel
April 1981 Beyond This Horizon New English Library Novel
June 1981 Beyond This Horizon Ultramarine Publishing Co. Novel
May 1983 Beyond This Horizon Hodder & Stoughton Novel
November 1983 Cover Beyond This Horizon New English Library Novel 7
November 1985 Cover Beyond This Horizon New English Library Novel
April 1989 Cover Beyond This Horizon Signet / New American Library Novel
July 1997 Cover Beyond This Horizon Roc / Dutton Signet Novel 7
September 2001 Cover Beyond This Horizon Baen Books Novel
September 2002 Cover Beyond This Horizon Baen Books Novel
February 2007 Cover Beyond This Horizon Baen Books Novel
April 2008 Cover Beyond This Horizon The Virginia Edition Novel
June 2009 Cover Beyond This Horizon Audible Frontiers Novel
January 2013 Cover Beyond This Horizon Brilliance Audio Novel
September 2014 Cover Beyond This Horizon Baen Books Novel
October 2014 Cover Beyond This Horizon Baen Books Novel