Revolt in 2100

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image_caption = First Edition cover
author = Robert A. Heinlein
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cover_artist = Hubert Rogers
country = USA
language = English
series = Future History
genre = Science fiction short stories
publisher = Shasta Publishers
release_date = 1953
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 317 pp
isbn = NA
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"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.

ee also

* Political ideas in science fiction
* Religious ideas in science fiction

External links

*isfdb title|id=17693|title=Revolt in 2100

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=594 | date=1998