Expanded Universe
Robert A. Heinlein
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<p>For the Millions of Heinlein Fans--a Guided Tour Through the Thoughts and Insights of "One of the Most Influential Writers in American Literature" (New York Times Book Review)</p><p></p><ul><li>"Life-Line" (*)</li><li>"Successful Operation"</li><li>"Blowups Happen" (*)</li><li>"Solution Unsatisfactory" (*)</li><li>"The Last Days of the United States"</li><li>"How to Be a Survivor"</li><li>"Pie from the Sky"</li><li>"They Do It with Mirrors"</li><li>"Free Men" (*)</li><li>"No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying"</li><li>"A Bathroom of Her Own"</li><li>"On the Slopes of Vesuvius"</li><li>"Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon"</li><li>"Pandora's Box" (*)</li><li>"Where To?" (1950, 1965, 1980)</li><li>"Cliff and the Calories"</li><li>"Ray Guns and Rocket Ships"</li><li>"The Third Millennium Opens"</li><li>"Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?"</li><li>"Pravda Means Truth"</li><li>"Inside Intourist"</li><li>"Searchlight" (*)</li><li>"The Pragmatics of Patriotism"</li><li>"Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You"</li><li>"Larger than Life", a memoir in tribute to E. E. "Doc" Smith</li><li>"Spinoff"</li><li>"The Happy Days Ahead"</li></ul>The six items marked with (*) appeared in <i>The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein</i>.About the Author<p>Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre. </p><p>He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future. </p><p>Robert A. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. By the time hed died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.</p>