Robert Heinlein Books In Order

The Green Hills of Earth

The Green Hills of Earth is a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held readers spellbound for over thirty years.

First published in 1951, this collection includes ‘Delilah and the Space Rigger,’ ‘Space Jockey,’ ‘The Long Watch,’ ‘Gentlemen Be Seated,’ ‘The Black Pits of Luna,’ ‘It’s Great to Be Back,’ ‘We Also Walk Dogs,’ ‘Ordeal in Space,’ ‘The Green Hills of Earth‘ and ‘Logic of Empire.’

Orphans of the Sky

The Jordan Foundation sponsored the Proxima Centauri Expedition in 2119, in attempt to reach the nearer stars of the galaxy. But that was far in the mythic past. The original purpose of the Ship’s epic voyage has long been forgotten, and gor generations the ginat spaceship, lost between the stars, is the only world that the people aboard have known. A strange civilization has evolved, with its own superstitions, savage religion, rigid class structure and mutant outcasts. Then, one young man discovers the truth about the Ship and changes everything, for ever…

The Past Through Tomorrow

Here in one monumental volume are all 21 of the stories, novella, and novels which make up Heinlein’s famous Future History the rich, imaginative architecture of Man’s probable destiny.

Rocket Ship Galileo

They called themselves the Galileo Club not a bad name for a group of space minded young men who had high hopes of putting one of their homemade rocket ships in orbit. But it wasn’t until they teamed up with Doc Cargraves that their impossible dream became an incredible reality. Suddenly the three Earthbound youths and their mentor were hurtling through space, heading for the barren wasteland of the Moon. Or so they thought. They were totally unaware that the dark crater shadows concealed a threat beyond their wildest imaginings…
a threat from which only a mircale could save them!

Space Cadet

This is the seminal novel of a young man’s education as a member of an elite, paternalistic non military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization, the Solar Patrol, a provocative parallel to Heinlein’s famous later novel, Starship Troopers which is about the military. Only the best and brightest the strongest and the most courageous ever manage to become Space Cadets, at the Space Academy. They are in training to be come part of the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others fear, taking risks no others dare, and upholding the peace of the solar system for the benefit of all. But before Matt Dodson can earn his rightful place in the ranks, his mettle is to be tested in the most severe and extraordinary ways ways that change him forever, from the midwestern American boy into a man of the Solar Patrol.

Red Planet

Jim Marlowe’s Martian pet, Willis, seems like nothing more than an adorable ball of fur with an uncanny ability to imitate the human voice. But Jim s devotion to the little creature will soon lead Jim and his pal Frank into a death defying trek across Mars. Their journey of wonders including an encounter with the mysterious ancients of Mars ends when they are plunged into the midst of a dangerous rebellion.

Farmer in the Sky

The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family. Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the frontier is dangerous, and in an alien world with no safety nets, nature is cruelly unforgiving of even small mistakes. Bill’s new home is a world of unearthly wonders and heartbreaking tragedy. He will face hardships, survive dangers, and grow up fast, meeting the challenge of opening up a new world for humanity and finding strengths within himself that he had never suspected existed.

Between Planets

Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independence from Earth, but he was wrong. War broke out, and he was stuck on Venus, with no way of getting home.

Then there was the ring that an old family friend had given him just before he had left Earth. Shortly afterward, the friend had been questioned by Earth’s secret police and had died from heart failure, they claimed. When Earth troops landed on Venus and started looking for Don and that mysterious ring, he realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever!

The Rolling Stones

The rollicking adventures of the Stone Family on a tour of the Solar System. It all statred when the twins, Castor and Pollux Stone, decided that life on the Lunar colony was too dull and decided to buy their own spaceship and go into business for themselves. Their father thought that was a fine, idea, except that he and Grandma Hazel bought the spaceship and the whole Stone Family were on their way out into the far reaches of the Solar System, with stops on Marswhere the twins got a lesson in the interplanetary economics of bicycles and the adorable little critters called flatcats who, it turned out, bred like rabbits; or perhaps, Tribbles…
., out to the asteroids, where Mrs. Stone, an M.D., was needed to treat a dangerous outbreak of disease, even further out, to Titan and beyond. Unforgettable Heinlein characters on an unforgettable adventure. ‘Not only America’s premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world’. Stephen King

Starman Jones

It was a desperate time, when one’s next meal and the comforts of home couldn’t be taken for granted. Max Jones, a practical, hard working young man, found his escape in his beloved astronomy books. When reality comes crashing in and his troubled home life forces him out on the road, Max finds himself adrift in a downtrodden land. Until an unexpected, ultimate adventure as a stowaway aboard an intergalactic spaceship carries him away…
but to where? And when? And how could he ever get back? With the ship’s pilot dead and his charts and tables are destroyed, Max must call upon all of his untested knowledge and skills in order to survive…
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The Star Beast

Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had always been obedient and docile. Except, that is, for the time it had eaten the secondhand Buick…
But now, all of a sudden and without explanation, Lummox had begun chomping down on a variety of things not least, a very mean dog and a cage of virtually indestructible steel. Incredible!John Thomas and Lummox were soon in awfully hot water, and they didn’t know how to get out. And neither one really understood just how bad things were or how bad the situation could get until some space voyagers appeared and turned a far from ordinary family problem into an extraordinary confrontation.

Tunnel in the Sky

It was just a test…
But something had gone wrong. Terribly wrong. What was to have been a standard ten day survival test had suddenly become an indefinite life or death nightmare. Now they were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with Earth…
at the other end of a Tunnel in the Sky. This small group of young men and women, divested of all civilized luxuries and laws, were being forced to forge a future of their own…
a strange future in a strange land where sometimes not even the fittest could survive!’…
fascinating…
ingenious…
this a book in the grand tradition of high literature!’ The New York TimesFrom the Paperback edition.

Time for the Stars

This is one of the classic titles originally know as the ‘Heinlein Juveniles,’ written in the 1950 and published for the young adult market. It has since been in print for 50 years in paperback, and now returns to hardcover for a new generation. Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower than light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution human telepathy. Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth. The only problem is that one of them has to stay behind, and that one will grow old while the other explores the depths of space. Always a master of insight into the human consequences of future technologies, this is one of Heinlein’s triumphs.

Citizen of the Galaxy

A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations Science Fiction Grand Master ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Citizen of the Galaxy In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free Traders a league of merchant princes throughout the many worlds of a hostile galaxy, finding the courage to live by his wits and fight his way from society’s lowest rung. But Thorby’s destiny will be forever changed when he discovers the truth about his own identity…
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Have Spacesuit – Will Travel

Unabridged, multi voiced recording. A journey of 159,000 lights years begins with a bar of soap? Fasten your zero gravity restraints for Robert Heinlein’s novel of intergalactic adventure, a story that carries teenager Clifford ‘Kip’ Russell from his job as soda jerk to spacesuit winner to alien abductee! Along the way Kip is joined by a pint sized genius named PeeWee and an empathetic alien creature known as ‘the Mother Thing.’ The story of how this strange trio battles alien gangsters only to end up on trial in an intergalactic court trillions of miles from Earth features all the wicked humor, brilliant detail, and g force drama that made Robert Heinlein the world s favorite science fiction writer. First published in 1958 as one of Heinlein s ‘boy s books’, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel soon found an adult audience as well, and has become one of the most beloved of all his novels. Now listeners can experience it as never before as the Full Cast Family of readers bring the characters to vivid new life in this scintillating recording.

Time Enough for Love

This is part 1 of a 2 part cassette audiobook, library edition. Time Enough for Love is the capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein’s famous Future History series. Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries. Time Enough for Love is his lovingly detailed account of his journey through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Using the voice of Lazarus, Heinlein expounds his own philosophies, including his radical for 1946 ideas on sexual freedom. His use of slang, technical jargon, sharp wit, and clever understatement lend this story a texture and authority that seems the very tone of things to come.

The Number of the Beast

Dr. Zebadiah John Carter, Dr. Dejah Thoris Burroughs Deety to her friends, Deety’s brainiac father, Jake, and her Aunt Hilda are running off to Reno for a quickie double wedding when a car bomb narrowly misses killing them all. But, what makes this bantering bunch so special isn’t money or politics or jealous exes but the one of a kind machine Jake has built in his baseme*nt. Jake has made an awesome quantum breakthrougha simple invention that allows access to all the universesand a race of blue skinned, green blooded bad guys are determined to grab the gadget for themselves. Plugging the world skipper into Gay Deceiver, Zeb’s trusty flying coupe, the lusty foursome set off on a rollicking roller coaster ride to other space time continuums, determined to evade and destroy the Black Hats who want them vaporized. And that’s when the fun really begins…
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions, where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history.

To Sail Beyond the Sunset

This is the MP3CD audiobook format. Heinlein fans rejoice, for the science fiction master’s most beloved characters here gather once more. Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well known to fans of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead. So begins Robert A. Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset. Filled with the master’s most beloved characters, this compelling work broadens and enriches his epic vision of time and space, life and death, love and desire. It is also an autobiographical masterpiece and a wondrous return to the alternate universes that all Heinlein fans have come to know and love.

Sixth Column

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 via 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 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 rag tag 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 U.S. will rise again. The counterinsurgency for freedom is on, and defeat is not an option. About Robert A. Heinlein: Not only America’s premier writer of speculative fiction, but the great writer of such fiction in the world. Stephen King. One of the grand masters of science fiction. Wall Street Journal

Beyond This Horizon

Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy…
. But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton’s life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton’s disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman was definitely not a good idea…
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The Puppet Masters

A stunning contemporary thriller from a master of the genre.A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory. If his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr and many innocents will die with him. For David Banks, an armed protection officer charged with neutralising the growing menace to London’s safety, his role is not as clear cut as it once was. The certainties which ruled his thinking are no longer black and white. Banks has begun to realise that one man s terrorist is another man s freedom fighter. Never have those distinctions been more dangerous to a police officer with his finger on the trigger and to those who depend upon him. On a bright spring morning the two men s paths will cross. Before then, their commitment will be shaken by the journeys which take them there. The suicide bomber and the policeman will have equal cause to question the roads they ve chosen. Win or lose, neither will be the same again…
Closure is a breathtakingly suspenseful thriller about the world in which we live, with all its dangers and complexities. With intelligence and deep understanding, Seymour shows us the choices we are forced to make, and their consequences. It is one of the most excitingly contemporary and relevant novels you will ever read. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Double Star

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was as usual in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe’s own life was on the line for if he wasn’t assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!

The Door into Summer

‘Not only America’s premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world. He remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction.’ Stephen KingElectronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan’s greedy partner and greedier fianc e trick him into taking the long sleep suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in which Dan will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them and at them…
Once again, the author of Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers displays his genius. The Door in to Summer proves why Robert Heinlein’s books have sold more than 50 million copies, winning countless awards, and earning him the title of Grand Master of Science Fiction. ‘Heinlein…
has the ability to see technologies just around the bend. That, combined with his outstanding skill as a writer and engineer inventor, produces books that are often years ahead of their time.’ Philadelphia Inquirer’One of the grandmasters of science fiction.’ The Wall Street Journal

Starship Troopers

7 Cassettes. Hailed as one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, Robert A. Heinlein pens fast moving, action packed tales. In this thrilling best seller, he fast forwards to a controversial future world where law and order are harshly enforced, and only the ex military can gain citizenship. Right out of high school, Johnny Rico enlists in the elite fraternity of the Mobile Infantry of planet Terra, once known as Earth. After weeks of the dangerously rugged bootcamp, Johnny is looking forward to some rest and relaxation. But when horrifying communist aliens attack Terran colonies, the entire human race becomes engaged in a terrifying struggle for survival. Starship Troopers is acclaimed as a science fiction classic and has been made into a popular motion picture. Intergalactic war and daring invasions explode from the pages with narrator George Wilsons dramatic performance

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with ”psi” powers telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others and complete innocence regarding the mores of man. After his tutelage under a surrogate father figure, Valentine begins his transformation into a kind of messiah. His exceptional abilities lead Valentine to become many things to many people: freak, scam artist, media commodity, searcher, free love pioneer, neon evangelist, and martyr. Heinlein won his second Hugo Award for this novel, sometimes called his ”divine comedy” and often called his masterpiece. Stranger in a Strange Land caused controversy and uproar when it was first published. Still topical and challenging today it is in the great tradition of stories that endure through the power of the author’s imagination that stretches from Gulliver’s Travels to 1984. This Blackstone audiobook is the ”as published” version, read from an Ace paperback published in 1987. It is not the uncut, uncensored version that Heinlein originally wrote , but which wasn’t published until 1991.

Podkayne of Mars

From the author of Friday and Rocketship Galileo comes this classic tale featuring the grand master of science fiction’s most remarkable hero*ine. Podkayne Fries, a smart and determined maid of Mars, has just one goal in life: to become the first female starship pilot and rise through the ranks to command deep space explorations. So when she is offered a chance to join her diplomatic uncle on an interstellar journey to distant Earth via Venus, it s a dream come true even if her only experience with diplomacy is handling her brilliant but pesky younger brother, Clark. But she s about to learn some things about war and peace because Uncle Tom, the ambassador plenipotentiary from Mars to the Three Planets Conference, is traveling not quite incognito enough, and certain parties will stop at nothing to sabotage negotiations between the three worlds.

Glory Road

E. C. ‘Scar’ Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn’t given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him:’ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English, with some French, proficient in all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential, willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of face and figure. Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger. You must apply in person, rue Dante, Nice, 2me tage, apt. D.’How could you not answer an ad like that, especially when it seemed to describe you perfectly? Well, except maybe for the ‘handsome’ part, but that was in the eye of the beholder anyway. So he went to that apartment and was greeted by the most beautiful woman he’d ever met. She seemed to have many names, but agreed he could call her ‘Star.’ A pretty appropriate name, as it turned out, for the empress of twenty universes. Robert A. Heinlein’s one true fantasy novel, Glory Road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules and the result is exciting, satirical, fast paced, funny and tremendously readable a favorite of all who have read it. Glory Road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail. Tor is proud to return this all time classic to hardcover to be discovered by a new generation of readers.

Farnham’s Freehold

Hugh Farnham was a practical, self made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn t expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter across two thousand years into a future both strange and appallingly familiar. In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a global nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody’s slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reached throughout the world. Even if he managed to escape, where could he run to…
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

11 cassettes/15.5 hours For his many finely crafted novels, Robert A. Heinlein has been hailed as the master of science fiction. His detailed stories of future politics and society create unforgettable visions of the ways technology can shift the basic tenets of life. ‘The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress‘ takes you to the moon in 2075. Working to produce wheat for earth, lunar residents live like sharecroppers, kept prisoners of the mother planet by a tight web of control. But a small group of dissidents a technician, a wise old professor, a beautiful blonde, and Mike the supercomputer are planning a revolution that will change this relationship forever. Robert A. Heinlein won four Hugo Awards and countless other honors during his lifetime. This novel is considered by many to be his greatest work, rich with imagination and humor. Now, bringing the rhythms of lunar talk talk to your ears, George Wilson’s narration draws you into the ranks of these spirited revolutionaries. ‘Robert A. Heinlein may have been the all time most important write of genre science fiction.’ The Science Fiction Encyclopedia Library Journal praises ‘Narrator George Wilson’s clear toned voice and engaging delivery…
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I Will Fear No Evil

Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delivers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction. Written at the dawn of the 1970s, this novel is the brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant.

As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.

Johann Sebastian Bach Smith was immensely rich — and very old. Though his mind was still keen, his body was worn out. His solution was to have surgeons transplant his brain into a new body. The operation was a great success — but the patient was no longer Johann Sebastian Bach Smith. He was now fused with the very vocal personality of his gorgeous, recently deceased secretary, Eunice — with mind-blowing results! Together they must learn to share control of her body.

Friday

Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss’s whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face…
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Job

After he firewalked in Polynesia, the world wasn’t the same for Alexander Hergensheimer, now called Alec Graham. As natural accidents occurred without cease, Alex knew Armageddon and the Day of Judgement were near. Somehow he had to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of grace, and, while he was at it, save the rest of the world…
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For Us, the Living

From Grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein comes a long lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name. July 12, 1939 Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when suddenly another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before his head connects with the boulders below is a girl in a green bathing suit, prancing along the shore…
. When he wakes, the girl in green is a woman dressed in furs and the sun drenched shore has transformed into snowcapped mountains. The woman, Diana, rescues Perry from the bitter cold and takes him inside her home to rest and recuperate. Later they debate the cause of the accident, for Diana is unfamiliar with the concept of a tire blowout and Perry cannot comprehend snowfall in mid July. Then Diana shares with him a vital piece of information: The date is now January 7. The year…
2086. When his shock subsides, Perry begins an exhaustive study of global evolution over the past 150 years. He learns, among other things, that a United Europe was formed and led by Edward, Duke of Windsor; former New York City mayor LaGuardia served two terms as president of the United States; the military draft was completely reconceived; banks became publicly owned and operated; and in the year 2003, two helicopters destroyed the island of Manhattan in a galvanizing act of war. This education in the ways of the modern world emboldens Perry to assimilate to life in the twenty first century. But education brings with it inescapable truths the economic and legal systems, the government, and even the dynamic between men and women remain alien to Perry, the customs of the new day continually testing his mental and emotional resolve. Yet it is precisely his knowledge of a bygone era that will serve Perry best, as the man from 1939 seems destined to lead his newfound peers even further into the future than they could have imagined. A classic example of the future history that Robert Heinlein popularized during his career, For Us, the Living marks both the beginning and the end of an extraordinary arc of political, social, and literary crusading that comprises his legacy. Heinlein could not have known in 1939 how the world would change over the course of one and a half centuries, but we have our own true world history to compare with his brilliant imaginings, rendering For Us, the Living not merely a novel, but a time capsule view into our past, our present, and perhaps our future. The novel is presented here with an introduction by acclaimed science fiction writer Spider Robinson and an afterword by Professor Robert James of the Heinlein Society.

Variable Star

A never before published masterpiece from science fiction’s greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century. When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe. There was just one small problem. He was broke. His only goal in life was to become a composer, and he knew it would take years before he was earning enough to support a family. But Jinny wasn’t willing to wait. And when Joel asked her what they were going to do for money, she gave him a most unexpected answer. She told him that her name wasn’t really Jinny Hamilton it was Jinny Conrad, and she was the granddaughter of Richard Conrad, the wealthiest man in the solar system. And now that she was sure that Joel loved her for herself, not for her wealth, she revealed her family’s plans for him he would be groomed for a place in the vast Conrad empire and sire a dynasty to carry on the family business. Most men would have jumped at the opportunity. But Joel Johnston wasn’t most men. To Jinny’s surprise, and even his own, he turned down her generous offer and then set off on the mother of all benders. And woke up on a colony ship heading out into space, torn between regret over his rash decision and his determination to forget Jinny and make a life for himself among the stars. He was on his way to succeeding when his plans and the plans of billions of others were shattered by a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity’s strength and ingenuity just to survive.

Green Hills Of Earth / Menace From Earth

Two of the Grand Master’s finest:The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth. From a mysterious region on Earth, where a more advanced lifeform may be studying the interesting creatures called ‘humans’, to the first moon colony, where a young girl’s relationship with her boyfriend is endangered by the beautiful Menace from Earth. Classic Heinlein, in a new Omni trade format package.

Waldo and Magic Inc.

North Power Air was in trouble. Their aircraft had begun to crash at an alarming rate, and no one could figure out what was going wrong. Desperate for an answer, they turned to Waldo, the crippled genius who lived in a zero g home in orbit around Earth. But Waldo had little reason to want to help the rest of humanity until he learned that the solution to their problems also held the key to his own…
Magic, Inc. Under the guise of an agency for magicians, Magic, Inc. was systematically squeezing out the small independent magicians. Then one businessman stood firm. With the help of an Oxford educated African shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he went straight to the demons of Hell to resolve the problem once and for all!

Assignment in Eternity

Classic novellas and short stories from the Dean of Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein. Masterful speculation on what makes us human and the problems, opportunities, and adventures humans must face in order to win a superhuman future. Gulf: in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can’t decide on quite what to do with the rest of us. The prequel to Heinlein’s later New York Times best seller, Friday. Lost Legacy: in which it is proved that we are all members of that league of the superhuman or would be, if we but had eyes to see. Plus two great short stories: two of the master’s finest: one on the nature of being, the other on what it means to be a Man. The second story, ‘Jerry Was a Man,’ was adapted for the TV series ‘Masters of Science Fiction,’ and is now available on DVD. About Robert A. Heinlein: Not only America’s premier writer of speculative fiction, but the great writer of such fiction in the world. Stephen King. One of the grand masters of science fiction. Wall Street Journal

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

Robert A. Heinlein, the celebrated author of Stranger in a Strange Land, interrupts the lives of two ordinary people for a terrifying night ride alo ng the interface between reality and…
our world. ‘One of the grand masters of science fiction.’ Wall Street Journal. Reissue.

The Fantasies of Robert Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of American SF writers, also wrote fantasy fiction throughout his long career, but especially in the early 1940s. The Golden Age of SF was also a time of revolution in fantasy fiction, and Heinlein was at the forefront. His fantasies were convincingly set in the real world, particularly those published in the famous magazine Unknown Worlds, including such stories as ‘Magic, Inc.,’ ”They ,” and ‘The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.’ Now all of Heinlein’s best fantasy short stories, most of them long novellas, have been collected in one big volume for the first time.

Requiem

Requiem is a compelling celebration of Robert A. Heinlein and his vision, containing many new and uncollected works by the Grand Master of science fiction, including two major novellas: Destination Moon, which was made into the famous George Pal film, and Tenderfoot in Space. There are contributions from such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, Spider Robinson, and Gordon R. Dickson, as well as an introduction by Virginia Heinlein. Heinlein was the pre eminent science fiction writer of the twentieth century. Requiem reveals the story of Heinlein’s passion for space exploration his glory and his dream.

Project Moonbase and Others

Project Moonbase contains the screenplay for the now classic sf film, plus eleven finished teleplays and two story outlines for a projected television show, The World Beyond. In addition to original tales the story outlines ‘Home Sweet Home’ and ‘The Tourist’ Project Moonbase also contains teleplay adaptations of such RAH classics as ‘Delilah and the Space Rigger’ ‘And He Built a Crooked House’ and much more.

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Too young to fight in the First World War, but destined to lead the first successful expedition to another star system, the literally immortal Lazarus Long is the most popular and enduring character created by Robert A. Heinlein, author of numerous New York Times best sellers. He starred in Heinlein’s most popular novels, including Methuselah’s Children, Time Enough For Love, The Number Of The Beast, To Sail Beyond The Sunset and others. The oldest living member of the human race due to his unique genes, Long has been a pioneer on eight planets, survived wars and lynch mobs, and explored most of the galaxy. His adventures have given him a breadth of experience distilled through the irony of an immortal viewpoint. But there is nothing pompous about Long’s reflections on the human condition. As the noted editor and critic David G. Hartwell has observed, ‘Lazarus’ comments are acute, lively and intelligent.’ And here they are, compiled in one beautifully designed trade paperback, filled with illuminations and illustrations by renowned Science Fiction artist Stephen Hickman, for the delight of the millions of Heinlein fans around the world.

Expanded Universe

The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging form Crime and Punishment to the Love life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitic to Post Holocaust America; fro the Nature of Courage to the Nature of Reality; it’s all here and it’s all great straight from the mind of the finest science fiction writer of them all. But beware: after reading it, you too will occupy an Expanded Universe!

Tramp Royale

The four time Hugo Award winning author recounts his travels around the world, detailing, in a never before published account, his experiences in places ranging from New Orleans to the Panama Canal to the African veldt.