Sixth Column
by Robert A. Heinlein
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It's six against six million in a brilliantly waged near-future war for nothing less than liberty and justice for all. The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion, and the United States has fallen to a dictatorial superpower bent on total domination. That power is consolidating its grip through concentration camps, police state tactics, and a total monopoly upon the very thoughts of the conquered populace. A tiny enclave of scientists and soldiers survives, unbeknownst to show more America's new rulers. It's six against six million—but those six happen to include a scientific genius, a master of subterfuge and disguise who learned his trade as a lawyer-turned-hobo, and a tough-minded commander who knows how to get the best out of his ragtag assortment of American discontents, wily operators, and geniuses. It's going to take technological savvy and a propaganda campaign that would leave Madison Avenue aghast, but the US will rise again. The counterinsurgency for freedom is on, and defeat is not an option.. show less
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I really don't know why I keep reading Heinlein's novels. I think the only one I ever really enjoyed was The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Stranger in a Strange Land was, uhm, weird, albeit not really bad. Double Star was essentially The Prince and the Pauper IN SPAAAAAACE! (Only, er, without the Prince's side of things.) Starship Troopers was silly, albeit not as silly as the movie. Rocket Ship Galileo was incredibly dated and very obviously written for preteens, and I couldn't get through it out of boredom.
And yet, here I am, having just finished yet another Robert Heinlein novel, The Day After Tomorrow, AKA Sixth Column, an incredibly racist little novel taking place in an America that has just been taken over by Asian stereotypes and in show more which Blacks, Hispanics and Amerindians apparently do not exist. Using a particularly bullshitty kind of technobabble that can do everything from kill people of only a selected race to transmuting elements to creating forcefields, a half-dozen white men manage to beat back the ravaging yellow hordes of the PanAsian Empire. Oh, and it features a token Asian-American who performs a pointless heroic sacrifice five pages before the end. Keen.
If it isn't clear yet, I really loathed this book. As I said, I've never been a big fan of Heinlein, but I still didn't expect this kind of poorly-plotted and transparently bigoted crap from him. I really wouldn't recommend this novel unless you have a love for the man that knows no bounds of time, space or good taste. show less
And yet, here I am, having just finished yet another Robert Heinlein novel, The Day After Tomorrow, AKA Sixth Column, an incredibly racist little novel taking place in an America that has just been taken over by Asian stereotypes and in show more which Blacks, Hispanics and Amerindians apparently do not exist. Using a particularly bullshitty kind of technobabble that can do everything from kill people of only a selected race to transmuting elements to creating forcefields, a half-dozen white men manage to beat back the ravaging yellow hordes of the PanAsian Empire. Oh, and it features a token Asian-American who performs a pointless heroic sacrifice five pages before the end. Keen.
If it isn't clear yet, I really loathed this book. As I said, I've never been a big fan of Heinlein, but I still didn't expect this kind of poorly-plotted and transparently bigoted crap from him. I really wouldn't recommend this novel unless you have a love for the man that knows no bounds of time, space or good taste. show less
Although I've had a longstanding interest in science fiction, I've read almost no Heinlein. This book I inherited in battered paperback after my father passed away a few years ago, and I've just now gotten to reading it. It's easy to see why Heinlein has the status he does. This was his fifth novel, published in 1949 under the title Sixth Column. The world is being conquered by the military might of a "PanAsian" nation that is a sort of amalgam of China, Japan, and other peoples of the region. As the story opens, the PanAsians have completed their conquest of the United States and initiated a brutal rule of the remaining Americans. The only vestiges of the U.S. military are at a secret research facility in the Rocky Mountains. They show more alone have the ability to continue the fight.
It's an intriguing story that moves along at a good clip, but it definitely is showing its age. The tiny research team manages to solve all the mysteries of the universe in record time--or at least all those necessary to transmute the elements, supply themselves with unlimited gold for funding, 3D print buildings from thin air, cure any illness, and manufacture vastly superior weaponry and communications systems. It's quite a stretch, but it counts as the one independent miracle an author is allowed, so okay, we can go along with it.
The plethora of racial epithets aimed at the PanAsians might make a lot of readers today cringe, and worst of all is the weapons technology that can be tuned to target different ethnic groups, as though there is something fundamentally different about them. But okay, the Marx Brothers occasionally got laughs from racial epithets and stereotyping, too. It was the tenor of the times.
The use of religion, too, is a bit problematic. The Americans' plan involves constructing a fake religion as a front for their activities, which may sound clever but shows, in its execution, a fairly flawed understanding of what religion is really about. It's hard to imagine such a plan fooling anyone who had studied their enemies enough to defeat them, much less actually working.
Still, if you can overlook these flaws, it's a fun read. Just be aware of what you're getting, and try not to judge it too harshly. It's a product of its times. show less
It's an intriguing story that moves along at a good clip, but it definitely is showing its age. The tiny research team manages to solve all the mysteries of the universe in record time--or at least all those necessary to transmute the elements, supply themselves with unlimited gold for funding, 3D print buildings from thin air, cure any illness, and manufacture vastly superior weaponry and communications systems. It's quite a stretch, but it counts as the one independent miracle an author is allowed, so okay, we can go along with it.
The plethora of racial epithets aimed at the PanAsians might make a lot of readers today cringe, and worst of all is the weapons technology that can be tuned to target different ethnic groups, as though there is something fundamentally different about them. But okay, the Marx Brothers occasionally got laughs from racial epithets and stereotyping, too. It was the tenor of the times.
The use of religion, too, is a bit problematic. The Americans' plan involves constructing a fake religion as a front for their activities, which may sound clever but shows, in its execution, a fairly flawed understanding of what religion is really about. It's hard to imagine such a plan fooling anyone who had studied their enemies enough to defeat them, much less actually working.
Still, if you can overlook these flaws, it's a fun read. Just be aware of what you're getting, and try not to judge it too harshly. It's a product of its times. show less
Fun. It's pretty much pure fluff, and racist with it, but it's fun to read. There's one big coincidence at the start - that the 'Ledbetter Effect' was discovered at the exact same time as the PanAsian attack. After that, everything is juggling and improvisation - unlikely, but given the circumstances relatively reasonable. A lot of the results depend on the PanAsians being exactly as stereotype paints them - relatively stupid and rule-bound, concerned primarily with saving face rather than with achieving their collective aims, and with, as Heinlein explicitly has a character say, a racial inferiority complex that dictates each one's attitude towards 'white men' as a whole. And while there is at least one racial Asian (cultural American) show more who's a good guy, there don't seem to be any other races besides white and PanAsian - where are the black people? The attitude towards women is odd - women are considered for every available job and mostly rejected except for safe, non-contact positions. At the end there's an assumption that every man will be armed, and if there's any weapons left over see if there are any smart, tough women you can give them to (no suggestion that a smart, tough woman would make better use of a weapon than a weak or weak-minded man). I can pick holes in it all night, but it's still a fun read. About at the level of Independence Day, and for similar reasons - if you think about the science or the psychology of it, it all falls apart, but the story catches you up and sweeps you along. I've read it several times before, but I always forget some of the neat scenes and lines. I read it for the Readathon - got through 9 of 12 chapters in one hour, and finished it in a bit less than another hour. show less
A secret research facility in the Colorado mountains is the US Army's last outpost after defeat by the PanAsians. The conquerors had absorbed the USSR after being attacked by them & had then absorbed India. They're ruthless, having crushed a rebellion by killing 150,000 civilians as punishment.
The lab is in turmoil. All but six of the personnel have died due to unknown forces released by an experiment operating within the newly-discovered magneto-gravitic or electro-gravitic spectra. Survivors learn they can selectively kill by releasing the internal pressure of cell membranes. This weapon can kill one race while leaving others unharmed.
They devise more uses for the forces discovered, but how do a handful overthrow an occupation that show more controls all communications & makes it criminal to print English? Noting the invaders have allowed religious practice to pacify their slaves, they start a church & act as Priests of Mota (atom backwards) to build a resistance movement which Major Ardmore, the protagonist, refers to as the 6th Column--as opposed to a traitorous 5th.
Originally published in 1941 as "Sixth Column" this came to me from my bookgroup under it's alternate title of "The Day After Tomorrow". I hadn't read Heinlein, or any other books from this era, in years, so picked it up.
The story starts with Major Ardmore arriving at The Citadel, to find that all but 6 members of the section are dead, via unknown methods. To all intents and purposes it's an Military (Army) base, but the remaining staff are science types or low grade army recruits. Ardmore finds himself having to take over command and not only deal with the temperamental staff but how to react to the enslavement of the American people by a combined Far East contingent.
50 years of non interaction with the far east had resulted in America being invaded by an group of people they had no understanding of.
They then go on to absorb India as well and it is many of the veterans of the India campaign who are brought over to control the Americans.
The invaders are depicted as ruthless and cruel—for example, they crush an abortive rebellion by killing 150,000 American civilians as punishment.
Under Ardmore's instruction the scientists soon find what killed their colleagues, and the rest of the book is a way of overcoming the obstacles of being a small group overcoming a whole continent of enemies. They make the best use of their new weapon despite the limits on communications and travel. Noting that the invaders have allowed the free practice of religion (the better to pacify their slaves), the Americans set up a church of their own in order to build a resistance movement—the Sixth Column (as opposed to a traitorous fifth column).
This is a short book (145 pages) and so the writing is sparse and there is little exposition of the things that are different. The Scout cars - high speed flying cars, manoeuvrable like helicopters, but faster and virtually undetectable - are used where travel over long distances is required. There is some description of the new weapon, but that is kept to a minimum but having Ardmore as a non-scientist quickly bored with things he doesn't understand.
It's difficult to decide whether it's the author or the characters themselves who are inherently racist against the invaders. Several characters refer to them as "monkeys" or "Flat faced Bastards" but outside of speech they are most commonly referred to as "PanAsians" or "Asiatics". A few of the characters are slightly more charitable, saying things like the following:
Ardmore is the most complete character, but even he isn't an in depth person. The secondary characters are a little on dimensional, but that's a side effect of such a short book. The characters who appear early in the book are dropped early, only for some of them to appear later in the book - Dr Calhoun disappears as soon as the weapons are developed, and only appears again having a breakdown and running amok in the Citadel. The intelligence gathering trip by Thomas was interesting, and provided the most rounded description of the changed world state. show less
The lab is in turmoil. All but six of the personnel have died due to unknown forces released by an experiment operating within the newly-discovered magneto-gravitic or electro-gravitic spectra. Survivors learn they can selectively kill by releasing the internal pressure of cell membranes. This weapon can kill one race while leaving others unharmed.
They devise more uses for the forces discovered, but how do a handful overthrow an occupation that show more controls all communications & makes it criminal to print English? Noting the invaders have allowed religious practice to pacify their slaves, they start a church & act as Priests of Mota (atom backwards) to build a resistance movement which Major Ardmore, the protagonist, refers to as the 6th Column--as opposed to a traitorous 5th.
Originally published in 1941 as "Sixth Column" this came to me from my bookgroup under it's alternate title of "The Day After Tomorrow". I hadn't read Heinlein, or any other books from this era, in years, so picked it up.
The story starts with Major Ardmore arriving at The Citadel, to find that all but 6 members of the section are dead, via unknown methods. To all intents and purposes it's an Military (Army) base, but the remaining staff are science types or low grade army recruits. Ardmore finds himself having to take over command and not only deal with the temperamental staff but how to react to the enslavement of the American people by a combined Far East contingent.
"But the PanAsians arent Japanese" "No and they're not Chinese. They are a mixed race, strong, proud and prolific".
50 years of non interaction with the far east had resulted in America being invaded by an group of people they had no understanding of.
The Nonintercourse Act had kept the American people from knowing anything important about their enemy. [...] The proponents of the measure had maintained that China was a big bite even for Soviet Russia to digest and that the United States had no fear of war [...] we had our backs turned when China digested Russia
They then go on to absorb India as well and it is many of the veterans of the India campaign who are brought over to control the Americans.
The invaders are depicted as ruthless and cruel—for example, they crush an abortive rebellion by killing 150,000 American civilians as punishment.
Under Ardmore's instruction the scientists soon find what killed their colleagues, and the rest of the book is a way of overcoming the obstacles of being a small group overcoming a whole continent of enemies. They make the best use of their new weapon despite the limits on communications and travel. Noting that the invaders have allowed the free practice of religion (the better to pacify their slaves), the Americans set up a church of their own in order to build a resistance movement—the Sixth Column (as opposed to a traitorous fifth column).
This is a short book (145 pages) and so the writing is sparse and there is little exposition of the things that are different. The Scout cars - high speed flying cars, manoeuvrable like helicopters, but faster and virtually undetectable - are used where travel over long distances is required. There is some description of the new weapon, but that is kept to a minimum but having Ardmore as a non-scientist quickly bored with things he doesn't understand.
It's difficult to decide whether it's the author or the characters themselves who are inherently racist against the invaders. Several characters refer to them as "monkeys" or "Flat faced Bastards" but outside of speech they are most commonly referred to as "PanAsians" or "Asiatics". A few of the characters are slightly more charitable, saying things like the following:
"Don't make the mistake of thinking of the PanAsians as bad - they're not - but they are different. Behind their arrogance is a racial inferiority complex, a mass paranoia that makes it necessary for them to prove to themselves by proving to us that a yellow man is as good as a white man, an a damned sight better. Remember that, son, they want the outside signs of respect more than anything else in the world."
Ardmore is the most complete character, but even he isn't an in depth person. The secondary characters are a little on dimensional, but that's a side effect of such a short book. The characters who appear early in the book are dropped early, only for some of them to appear later in the book - Dr Calhoun disappears as soon as the weapons are developed, and only appears again having a breakdown and running amok in the Citadel. The intelligence gathering trip by Thomas was interesting, and provided the most rounded description of the changed world state. show less
This is the book upon which Heinlein's reputation for racism mainly hangs. In fact, it is no more racist than the times it was written in. And misogynist. And elitist. Which just goes to show how much things have changed, I'm pleased to say.
Now we've disposed of these issues, what do we find? A wish-fulfillment fantasy of super-science winning the day against impossible odds. After the invasion of the USA by the Chinese and its defeat, the six remaining men of the US military decide to use that super-science to fight back through the agency of a fake religion, thus giving rise to one image that redeems this book in my mind (though not very much, and I wouldn't advise anyone to seek out a copy for this reason alone): the characters are show more discussing how they will pay for setting up their fake religion nationwide, and one of them says that they will use their powers to transmute base metal into gold and pay with solid gold coins. "After all" he says, "you wouldn't expect a priest with a long beard and flowing white robes to whip out a chequebook and pen, would you?" I found that image amusing. (Incidentally, I once saw an illustration in a World SF Convention programme book from the 1970s where the image of the god Mota deployed against the godless heathen looked suspiciously like a Muslim cleric...) show less
Now we've disposed of these issues, what do we find? A wish-fulfillment fantasy of super-science winning the day against impossible odds. After the invasion of the USA by the Chinese and its defeat, the six remaining men of the US military decide to use that super-science to fight back through the agency of a fake religion, thus giving rise to one image that redeems this book in my mind (though not very much, and I wouldn't advise anyone to seek out a copy for this reason alone): the characters are show more discussing how they will pay for setting up their fake religion nationwide, and one of them says that they will use their powers to transmute base metal into gold and pay with solid gold coins. "After all" he says, "you wouldn't expect a priest with a long beard and flowing white robes to whip out a chequebook and pen, would you?" I found that image amusing. (Incidentally, I once saw an illustration in a World SF Convention programme book from the 1970s where the image of the god Mota deployed against the godless heathen looked suspiciously like a Muslim cleric...) show less
The day after Tomorrow - Robert Heinlein (1983 my copy, originally Published 1949)
This is my copy of the book I’ve had since 1983 with a gorgeous Tim White cover. I’ve read it a couple of times since then, this was probably the first time in over a decade. It was originally published as The Sixth Column and was based on a story idea from the editor of Astounding Science Fiction John W Campbell, where it was originally published in serial form.
I’ll start with the Elephant in the room, I have seen some people accuse this book and Heinlein of being racist especially in his portrayal of what is called in the Book the PanAsians. This is meant to be a super state that is neither stated as Japanese, Chinese or any other east Asian show more country. I have seen the Term PanAsian’s used in other books from later periods by other authors, so the idea isn’t exclusive to him.
Yes, there are some racial slurs within the book, but I think people need to put some context to it. This was Heinlein’s first published Novel it was 1949 but had been written earlier so it was post-war and the perceived threat was from communism (The Red Threat) specifically China and Korea. Parts of the book had been written around 1941 when the Second Sino Japanese war was in progress and parts of China had been occupied by what can only be described as a brutal way by the Japanese. If you look at Heinlein’s career and personal life he frequently fought for equality and included diverse characters from diverse backgrounds within his books. Johnny Rico the protagonist in Starship Troopers was Filipino for example.
Now onto the specifics about this book, the story revolves around an invasion and occupation of America from what is known as PanAsia. One secret Military base is the only American base to survive and they have the possibility of fighting back. They have what was discovered by accident a scientific effect (The Ledbetter Effect) that can do multiple things that could look like magic to others and could be a formidable weapon. The problem is any direct attack could end with a threat to the safety of the civilian population. After much deliberation it’s discovered that one of the only ways citizens can gather under the new regime is to participate in their Religion. It is decided that to fight back they will start a Religion and use that to hide and use it as a springboard to fight back against the invasion.
The overall premise of the story is interesting with the idea of using a fake religion as a resistance an interesting one. The discussions about the morality of doing that and the perception of the incumbent Religions are very interesting. This is not Heinlein at his best but as always there are interesting concepts. The Ledbetter effect that the ‘Priests’s use can be seen as a little too convenient in the overall plot, it does also give thought to what people can think of science when they do not know that is the cause and it can seem like magic.
I discussed the portrayal of Race earlier but what I will add its obvious how Heinlein is trying to portray racism on both sides. It may be a little clunky narratively how he introduces the concept, but it is there. There is an Asian American character that is on the receiving end of racism from the Pan Asian occupiers for example. If the book had been longer (it's only 221 pages) and more time given to develop the Characters this may have worked a little more smoothly.
Overall an interesting example of Heinlein’s early work but not his best. show less
This is my copy of the book I’ve had since 1983 with a gorgeous Tim White cover. I’ve read it a couple of times since then, this was probably the first time in over a decade. It was originally published as The Sixth Column and was based on a story idea from the editor of Astounding Science Fiction John W Campbell, where it was originally published in serial form.
I’ll start with the Elephant in the room, I have seen some people accuse this book and Heinlein of being racist especially in his portrayal of what is called in the Book the PanAsians. This is meant to be a super state that is neither stated as Japanese, Chinese or any other east Asian show more country. I have seen the Term PanAsian’s used in other books from later periods by other authors, so the idea isn’t exclusive to him.
Yes, there are some racial slurs within the book, but I think people need to put some context to it. This was Heinlein’s first published Novel it was 1949 but had been written earlier so it was post-war and the perceived threat was from communism (The Red Threat) specifically China and Korea. Parts of the book had been written around 1941 when the Second Sino Japanese war was in progress and parts of China had been occupied by what can only be described as a brutal way by the Japanese. If you look at Heinlein’s career and personal life he frequently fought for equality and included diverse characters from diverse backgrounds within his books. Johnny Rico the protagonist in Starship Troopers was Filipino for example.
Now onto the specifics about this book, the story revolves around an invasion and occupation of America from what is known as PanAsia. One secret Military base is the only American base to survive and they have the possibility of fighting back. They have what was discovered by accident a scientific effect (The Ledbetter Effect) that can do multiple things that could look like magic to others and could be a formidable weapon. The problem is any direct attack could end with a threat to the safety of the civilian population. After much deliberation it’s discovered that one of the only ways citizens can gather under the new regime is to participate in their Religion. It is decided that to fight back they will start a Religion and use that to hide and use it as a springboard to fight back against the invasion.
The overall premise of the story is interesting with the idea of using a fake religion as a resistance an interesting one. The discussions about the morality of doing that and the perception of the incumbent Religions are very interesting. This is not Heinlein at his best but as always there are interesting concepts. The Ledbetter effect that the ‘Priests’s use can be seen as a little too convenient in the overall plot, it does also give thought to what people can think of science when they do not know that is the cause and it can seem like magic.
I discussed the portrayal of Race earlier but what I will add its obvious how Heinlein is trying to portray racism on both sides. It may be a little clunky narratively how he introduces the concept, but it is there. There is an Asian American character that is on the receiving end of racism from the Pan Asian occupiers for example. If the book had been longer (it's only 221 pages) and more time given to develop the Characters this may have worked a little more smoothly.
Overall an interesting example of Heinlein’s early work but not his best. show less
Six men are trapped at a secret Colorado military base after an Asian coalition successfully invades and conquers the United States. To fight back, the survivors use advanced magneto-gravitic science to build a targeted weapon and establish a faux religion to build an underground resistance movement.
The United States is devastatingly conquered by the PanAsian Empire. With Washington, D.C. and Manhattan destroyed, the American government is wiped out before a counterattack can be launched. The country is placed under brutal martial law.
The Citadel is a highly classified United States Army research facility hidden in the Rocky Mountains. A freak accident at the facility kills almost everyone, leaving only six men alive: military officers, show more scientists, and enlisted personnel.
The scientists discover The Ledbetter Effect, a magneto-gravitic phenomenon that allows them to manipulate matter and cellular structures. They refine this discovery to create a weapon that selectively kills or stuns the occupying forces while leaving the American population unharmed.
Knowing a direct military assault by six men against millions of invaders is suicidal, the survivors create a cover story. They establish the Priests of Mota, atom spelled backward, a new religion to act as an underground network. They use the miraculous-seeming science to perform miracles and preach to the masses, secretly building an uprising, the sixth column, as opposed to a fifth-column traitorous force, to systematically retake the nation show less
The United States is devastatingly conquered by the PanAsian Empire. With Washington, D.C. and Manhattan destroyed, the American government is wiped out before a counterattack can be launched. The country is placed under brutal martial law.
The Citadel is a highly classified United States Army research facility hidden in the Rocky Mountains. A freak accident at the facility kills almost everyone, leaving only six men alive: military officers, show more scientists, and enlisted personnel.
The scientists discover The Ledbetter Effect, a magneto-gravitic phenomenon that allows them to manipulate matter and cellular structures. They refine this discovery to create a weapon that selectively kills or stuns the occupying forces while leaving the American population unharmed.
Knowing a direct military assault by six men against millions of invaders is suicidal, the survivors create a cover story. They establish the Priests of Mota, atom spelled backward, a new religion to act as an underground network. They use the miraculous-seeming science to perform miracles and preach to the masses, secretly building an uprising, the sixth column, as opposed to a fifth-column traitorous force, to systematically retake the nation show less
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Robert Anson Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907 in Butler, Mo. The son of Rex Ivar and Bam Lyle Heinlein, Robert Heinlein had two older brothers, one younger brother, and three younger sisters. Moving to Kansas City, Mo., at a young age, Heinlein graduated from Central High School in 1924 and attended one year of college at Kansas City Community show more College. Following in his older brother's footsteps, Heinlein entered the Navel Academy in 1925. After contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, of which he was later cured, Heinlein retired from the Navy and married Leslyn MacDonald. Heinlein was said to have held jobs in real estate and photography, before he began working as a staff writer for Upton Sinclair's EPIC News in 1938. Still needing money desperately, Heinlein entered a writing contest sponsored by the science fiction magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories. Heinlein wrote and submitted the story "Life-Line," which went on to win the contest. This guaranteed Heinlein a future in writing. Using his real name and the pen names Caleb Saunders, Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, and Simon York, Heinlein wrote numerous novels including For Us the Living, Methuselah's Children, and Starship Troopers, which was adapted into a big-budget film for Tri-Star Pictures in 1997. The Science Fiction Writers of America named Heinlein its first Grand Master in 1974, presented 1975. Officers and past presidents of the Association select a living writer for lifetime achievement. Also, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Heinlein in 1998. Heinlein died in 1988 from emphysema and other related health problems. Heinlein's remains were scattered from the stern of a Navy warship off the coast of California. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- "What the hell goes on here?" Whitey Ardmore demanded.
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