For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs. This item is unavailable.For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs

After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women, in a remarkable, long-lost first novel by the late master of speculative fiction. 75,000 first printing. Science Fiction Bk Club.

Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907. He graduated from Annapolis and served in the navy; pursued astronomy, math, and politics; and owned a silver mine before beginning to write science fiction in 1939. In 1947 he published his first novel, Rocket Ship Galileo, and has since received wide acclaim for works such as Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. He won four Hugo Awards, three Retro Hugos, and he received the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. His last novel, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, was published in 1987, one year before his death.