In the year A.D. 2100 an evil Dictator rules the United States. He maintains power through the clever use of advanced science and psychology. And he is backed by a dedicated military clique... From Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of space-age fiction, comes this thrilling novel of a soldier who...  more

In the year A.D. 2100 an evil Dictator rules the United States. He maintains power through the clever use of advanced science and psychology. And he is backed by a dedicated military clique... From Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of space-age fiction, comes this thrilling novel of a soldier who dares to defy Authority, who risks his live to overthrow tyranny.

This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with many psi powers, including the ability to take control of the minds of others -- and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.

Robert A. Heinlein is widely and justly regarded as the greatest practitioner of the art of science fiction who has ever lived. Here are two of his greatest short novels: GULF: In which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't...  more

Robert A. Heinlein is widely and justly regarded as the greatest practitioner of the art of science fiction who has ever lived. Here are two of his greatest short novels: GULF: In which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide what to do with the rest of us.... LOST LEGACY: In which it is proved that we are all members of that league -- or would be, if we but had eyes to see.... PLUS TWO GREAT STORIES: Two of the Master's finest: one on the nature of Being, the other on what it means to be a Man.

Voyages to infinity. Here are prophetic stories of the future, as only the dean of space-age fiction can write them. "Since Robert A. Heinlein is one of the ablest craftsmen writing science fiction, this book is a guarantee of several hours' interest and enjoyment." (NY Times) A collection of...  more

Voyages to infinity. Here are prophetic stories of the future, as only the dean of space-age fiction can write them. "Since Robert A. Heinlein is one of the ablest craftsmen writing science fiction, this book is a guarantee of several hours' interest and enjoyment." (NY Times) A collection of short stories and one novella about the endless capacities of the human mind. GULF LOST LEGACY JERRY WAS A MAN ELSEWHEN

SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippled master . . . OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner,...  more

SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippled master . . . OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked his life to deliver a dead man's message and found himself both guest and prisoner aboard an alien spaceship . . . CITIZEN: Unaware of his role in an ongoing intrigue, Thorby became one of the freest of the free in the entire galaxy as the adopted son of a noble space captain . . . until he became a captive in an interstellar prison that offered everything but the hope of escape!

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...  more

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!

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...  more

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.

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...  more

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.

4 in one book. Includes Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet, Farmer in the Sky

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...  more

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.

Introducing two perennially top-selling Heinlein books collected in one omni-trade volume!

Three Astounding Journeys from the Master of Science Fiction - Tunnel in the Sky, Time for the Stars, Citizen of the Galaxy

All-new afterword by popular Jon and Lobo series creator, Mark L. Van Name.   Two classic Robert A. Heinlein novels in one volume: The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky.  Journeys into space, one taking humans to space by hook or by crook, the other the classic first-time...  more

All-new afterword by popular Jon and Lobo series creator, Mark L. Van Name.   Two classic Robert A. Heinlein novels in one volume: The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky.  Journeys into space, one taking humans to space by hook or by crook, the other the classic first-time tale of a generation vessel with passengers who do not realize they are in a spaceship.   Two all-time classics from seven-time Hugo winner and Dean of Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein, plus two short stories, a novelette and a novella. Contents: The Man Who Sold the Moon: D. D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of space for all mankind. The method? Anything that works.  Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far.  But he will give us the stars. Orphans of the Sky: Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus.  But he also understood that this must be allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection.  After all, the real world was only metal corridors and nothing else, right?  And then Hugh begins to suspect the truth. Afterword (The Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Sky) (2013) • essay by Mark L. Van Name Future History 1951-2600 A.D. (chart) (1963) • interior artwork by (uncredited) Let There Be Light [Future History] (1940) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Preface (The Man Who Sold the Moon) (1950) • essay by Robert A. Heinlein Requiem [D. D. Harriman] (1940) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein The Man Who Sold the Moon  [D. D. Harriman] (1950) / novella by Robert A. Heinlein The Roads Must Roll [Future History] (1940) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein

Here, in one volume, are nearly all the stories, novelettes, novella, and novels which make up Heinlein's famous Future History -- the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work.  Heinlein wrote most of the Future History...  more

Here, in one volume, are nearly all the stories, novelettes, novella, and novels which make up Heinlein's famous Future History -- the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work.  Heinlein wrote most of the Future History stories early in his career, between 1939 and 1941 and between 1945 and 1950. Most of the Future History stories written prior to 1967 are collected in The Past Through Tomorrow, which also contains the final version of the chart. That collection does not include Universe and Common Sense; they were published separately as Orphans of the Sky. Contents: Introduction (The Past Through Tomorrow) (1967) • essay by Damon Knight Life-Line [Future History] (1939) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein The Roads Must Roll [Future History] (1940) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein Blowups Happen [Future History] (1940) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein The Man Who Sold the Moon [D. D. Harriman] (1950) / novella by Robert A. Heinlein Delilah and the Space-Rigger [Future History] (1949) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Space Jockey [Future History] (1947) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Requiem [D. D. Harriman] (1940) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein The Long Watch [Future History] (1949) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Gentlemen, Be Seated [Future History] (1948) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein The Black Pits of Luna (juvenile) [Future History] (1948) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein "It's Great to Be Back!" [Future History] (1947) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein "—We Also Walk Dogs" [Future History] (1941) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein Searchlight [Future History] (1962) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Ordeal in Space [Future History] (1948) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth [Future History] (1947) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Logic of Empire [Future History] (1941) / novella by Robert A. Heinlein The Menace from Earth [Future History] (1957) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein "If This Goes On —" [Future History] (1940) / novel by Robert A. Heinlein Coventry [Future History] (1940) / novella by Robert A. Heinlein Misfit [Future History] (1939) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein Methuselah's Children [Lazarus Long] (1958) / novel by Robert A. Heinlein .

Three high school students formed the Galileo Club to share their interests in science and space exploration. But they never imagined they would team up with a nuclear physicist to construct and crew a rocket bound for the moon. And they never expected to gain some powerful enemies in the...  more

Three high school students formed the Galileo Club to share their interests in science and space exploration. But they never imagined they would team up with a nuclear physicist to construct and crew a rocket bound for the moon. And they never expected to gain some powerful enemies in the process.

It doesn?t seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it?s clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who?s met their grandmother Hazel would know that they came by it honestly? Join the Stone...  more

It doesn?t seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it?s clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who?s met their grandmother Hazel would know that they came by it honestly? Join the Stone twins as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle their way across the Solar System in the company of the most high-spirited and hilarious family in all of science fiction. This light-hearted tale has some of Heinlein?s sassiest dialogue (not to mention the famous Flat Cats incident!). Oddly enough, it?s also a true example of real family values?for when you?re a Stone, your family is your highest priority.

From Mars to Venus - to danger-filled adventures deep in outer space... Only the best and brightest - the strongest and the most courageous - ever managed to become Space Cadets. They were the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others feared, taking risks no other dared, and...  more

From Mars to Venus - to danger-filled adventures deep in outer space... Only the best and brightest - the strongest and the most courageous - ever managed to become Space Cadets. They were the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others feared, taking risks no other dared, and upholding the peace of the solar system to the benefit of all. But before Matt could earn his rightful place in the ranks, his mettle would be tested in the most severe and extraordinary ways - ways that would change him forever but would still not prepare him for the alien treacheries that awaited him on the strange worlds far beyond his own.

This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with many psi powers, including the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.

Original title: "How to Be a Politician" One of Heinlein's few nonfiction works, this book is both a polemic on the importance of participation in a democratic system of government and a manual on how to run a local political campaign. Writing in 1946, the author based his observations on his...  more

Original title: "How to Be a Politician" One of Heinlein's few nonfiction works, this book is both a polemic on the importance of participation in a democratic system of government and a manual on how to run a local political campaign. Writing in 1946, the author based his observations on his own experience in California politics during the 1930s (especially as part of Upton Sinclair's EPIC Movement and Sinclair's 1934 campaign for the Democratic nomination in the California gubernatorial race). It covers the following topics: * Door-to-door canvassing * Organizing local meetings * Recruiting volunteers * Managing office work * Fundraising * Reasons to get involved * The effect one person can have Heinlein did not find a publisher for the book. It was finally published by Baen in 1992 (four years after the author's death) with an introduction and annotations by Jerry Pournelle.

In this, Thor's Hammer, Vol I of THE FUTURE AT WAR series, some of the most brilliant science fiction and military writers of this decade take a close look at the future of our planet in the light of History's only sure thing: The Future of War.  "Unfortunately, war sings...  more

In this, Thor's Hammer, Vol I of THE FUTURE AT WAR series, some of the most brilliant science fiction and military writers of this decade take a close look at the future of our planet in the light of History's only sure thing: The Future of War.  "Unfortunately, war sings its own siren-songs, with an appeal which, given the right conditions, can be almost universal...", Reginald Bretnor, From his Introduction.  Contains thirteen short stories, five articles, and a poem dealing with future warfare on earth and in near space. Contents: Introduction: Thor's Hammer (The Future at War, Vol 1) (1979) • essay by Reginald Bretnor The Long Watch [Future History] (1949) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein Defending the Third Industrial Revolution (1979) • essay by G. Harry Stine • interior artwork by David Egge Old Woman by the Road (1978) / short story by Gregory Benford Encased in the Amber of Eternity • poem by Robert Frazier Moon Rocks (1973) / short story by Tom Purdom Lasers, Grasers, and Marxists (1976) • essay by Jerry Pournelle Fixed Price War [Merle Walters • 1] (1978) / short story by Charles Sheffield Marius [Psychotechnic League] (1957) / short story by Poul Anderson Weapons in Future Warfare (1979) • essay by Roger A. Beaumont, and R. Snowden Ficks Scenario for the Fall of Night (1979) / short story by Roger A. Beaumont The Spell of War [Lord Darcy] (1978) / novelette by Randall Garrett Military Vehicles: Into the Third Millennium (1979) • essay by Dean Ing • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian The Man in the Gray Weapons Suit (1979) / short story by Paul J. Nahin Just an Old-Fashioned War Story (1977) / short story by Michael G. Coney The Private War of Private Jacob (1974) / short story by Joe Haldeman One Foot in the Grave: Medicine in Future Warfare (1979) • essay by Alan E. Nourse Shark (1973) / short story by Edward Bryant Training (1979) / short story by David Langford Final Muster (1961) / novelette by Rick Rubin    

Sir Isaac Newton found the concept nonsensical. Albert Einstein hypothesized that travel at tremendous speeds would make it possible. In 1995 Stephen Hawking completely reversed his long-held skeptic's view. But the feasibility of such a journey has never proven to be an impediment to science...  more

Sir Isaac Newton found the concept nonsensical. Albert Einstein hypothesized that travel at tremendous speeds would make it possible. In 1995 Stephen Hawking completely reversed his long-held skeptic's view. But the feasibility of such a journey has never proven to be an impediment to science fiction and fantasy writers. They were weaving adventures through time and space even before H. G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895. Time Travelers gathers twenty-four tales by the most recognizable names in the genre. Included is the first time-travel story ever written -- penned by American journalist Edward Page Mitchell fourteen years prior to Wells's landmark novel. Here, too, is a selection by master of future history Robert A. Heinlein, whose "All You Zombies --" involves a character traveling back and forth through time on a bizarre genetic mission. Also included amongst those roaming in the fourth dimension are such legendary sci-fi writers as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick, along with such contemporary voices as William Gibson and Martin Amis. Of course, there is a selection by H. G. Wells -- a piece originally written as part of The Time Machine but curiously excised when the book was published. Trek into the past, back to the present, or ahead to the future on an unforgettable journey with Time Travelers. You haven't a moment to waste.

Very well put together hardcover volume published by the Science Fiction Book Club containing four complete Heinlein "juvenile" novels, including Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones and The Star Beast,

Collection of six short science fiction stories of Robert A. Heinlein. Contents: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942): A man comes to an investigator with an odd request: he wants to have himself followed, because he has no idea what his own profession is; The Man Who...  more

Collection of six short science fiction stories of Robert A. Heinlein. Contents: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942): A man comes to an investigator with an odd request: he wants to have himself followed, because he has no idea what his own profession is; The Man Who Traveled in Elephants (1957); All You Zombies- (1959): the ultimate go-back-in-time-and-meet-yourself...; They (1941) Our Fair City (1949); "--And He Built a Crooked House" (1941). Also published as: .6 x H: Six Shocking Penetrations into the Unknown .