Revolt in 2100

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Revolt in 2100
First Edition cover
Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Cover artist	Hubert Rogers
Country	USA
Language	English
Series	Future History
Genre(s)	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Shasta Publishers
Publication date	1953
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	317 pp
ISBN	NA

Revolt in 2100 is a 1953 collection by Robert A. Heinlein and is part of his Future History series.

The contents are as follows:

• Foreword by Henry Kuttner, "The Innocent Eye"
• "If This Goes On—" (1940; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)
• "Coventry" (1940; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)
• "Misfit" (1939; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)
• Future History chart
• Afterword: "Concerning Stories Never Written"

The short novel, "If This Goes On—", describes a rebellion against an American theocracy and thus served as the vehicle for Heinlein to criticise the authoritarian potential of Protestant Christian fundamentalism. The work is not an attack on religion in general, however, as he has a Mormon community take part in the anti-theocratic revolt.

The short stories, "Coventry" and "Misfit", describe the succeeding secular liberal society from the point of view of characters who reject it.

Later paperback editions have paired Revolt in 2100 with Methuselah's Children (ISBN 0-671-57780-8).

The character of Nehemiah Scudder, the "First Prophet" of the regime, is also used in Spider Robinson's Variable Star, a novel based on an outline of Heinlein's. The novel borrows liberally from Heinlein's Future History, although it does not follow its timeline, and it is implied that Scudder rose to power after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

[edit] See also

• Political ideas in science fiction
• Religious ideas in science fiction

[edit] External links

• Revolt in 2100 publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

[edit] References

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 594. 

v • d • e Robert A. Heinlein's Future History Collections The Past Through Tomorrow, The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth, Orphans of the Sky, Revolt in 2100, The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe Short stories "Life-Line", "Let There Be Light", "The Roads Must Roll", "Blowups Happen", "The Man Who Sold the Moon", "Delilah and the Space Rigger", "Space Jockey", "Requiem", "The Long Watch", "Gentlemen, Be Seated!", "The Black Pits of Luna", "It's Great to Be Back!", "—We Also Walk Dogs", "Searchlight", "Ordeal in Space", "The Green Hills of Earth", "Logic of Empire", "The Menace from Earth", "If This Goes On—", "Coventry", "Misfit", "Universe", "Common Sense" Novels Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset