beyond this horizon by robert a heinlein

The cabin door stood open, framing a picture of sugar pines and redwoods, but no human figure. You haven’t found her because you haven’t been looking for her. No, kid, the trouble is with me, not with you. Someone who can do for you what I once did by just being herself.” “Hunnh! I don’t know where I’d find her. Somewhere there is a girl who is everything you thought I was. “What is there to do about it? Even if everything you say is true, what is there to do?” “I could make a guess. You aren’t happy and I want you to be happy.” He shrugged helplessly. ‘ My feelings have always been maternal, rather than anything else. Now the lights are out and the music has stopped and I’m no longer any help to you.” “ Don’t say that, kid.” She placed a hand on his arm. I was just a working girl, doing the job she could do best. And I was so impressed by your intellect (I still am, dear) and I was so flattered that you paid attention to me.” “Why you could have had your pick of all the braves in the country.” “They didn’t look at me the way you did. With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel.Īt the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).So proud and so glad to see me. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman is definitely not a good idea. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. 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. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And he is the culmination of a star line each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century.īut Hamilton Felix is bored.

For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories.

Beyond this horizon by robert a heinlein