A Strange Revolt in The World Of the Future!
One by one, the
free nations had fallen, until finally America too was under the heel of
the invader. Now the only hope resides in a mountain redoubt where six
men work in secret on a plan to rock the planet. . . .
A top secret research facility in the Colorado Rocky Mountains is the last remaining outpost of the United States Army after its defeat by invaders. The conquerors had absorbed the Soviets Union
after being attacked by them and had then gone on to absorb India as
well. The invaders are depicted as ruthless and cruel. They
crush an abortive rebellion by killing 150,000 American civilians as
punishment. Noting that the invaders have allowed the free practice of
religion, the Americans set up a
church of their own in order to build a resistance movement, the Sixth
Column. The laboratory is in turmoil as the novel begins, all but six of the
personnel have died suddenly, due to unknown forces released by an
experiment operating within the newly discovered magneto/electro-gravitic spectra. The surviving scientists soon learn that they
can selectively kill people by releasing the internal pressure of their
cell membranes, among other things. Using this discovery they construct a
race-selective weapon which will kill only the invaders.
Printing History
Written by Robert A Heinlein (1907-1988)
Gnome Press
1949
Trivia
Was published under the title Sixth Column, and was based on a story by editor John Campbell and published in serial form from January 1941 thru March 1941, under Heinlein's pen name Anson MacDonald.
Some of Heinlein's work is absolutely classic, Scott!
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