He had been devout, but he finds himself questioning his faith when he falls for one of the Prophet's Virgins, Sister Judith. John Lyle, a junior army officer under the Prophet, is stationed at the Prophet's capital of New Jerusalem. The First Prophet was Nehemiah Scudder, a backwoods preacher turned President (elected in 2012), then dictator (no elections were held in 2016 or later). The story is set in a future theocratic American society, ruled by the latest in a series of fundamentalist Christian "Prophets". The novel is part of Heinlein's Future History series.Īt the 2016 WorldCon the story won the 1941 Retro-Hugo Award for Best Novella of 1940. The novella shows what might happen to Christianity in the United States given mass communications, applied psychology, and a hysterical populace. Heinlein, first serialized in 1940 in Astounding Science-Fiction and revised and expanded for inclusion in the 1953 collection Revolt in 2100. "If This Goes On-" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert A.
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