The Classic Years of Robert A. Heinlein

The Classic Years of Robert A. Heinlein
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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 9780893702168
ISBN-13 : 0893702161
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Classic Years of Robert A. Heinlein by : George Edgar Slusser

Slusser examines Heinlein's classic years, from the publication of his first story, "Life-Line," in 1939, to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."

Beyond This Horizon

Beyond This Horizon
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Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9781625793140
ISBN-13 : 1625793146
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond This Horizon by : Robert A. Heinlein

Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. 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 is definitely not a good idea.... With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9781101500422
ISBN-13 : 1101500425
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Starship Troopers by : Robert A. Heinlein

In Robert A. Heinlein’s controversial Hugo Award-winning bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy... Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job... “A classic…If you want a great military adventure, this one is for you.”—All SciFi

Red Planet

Red Planet
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 0709068018
ISBN-13 : 9780709068013
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Planet by : Robert Anson Heinlein

Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that could save--or destroy--them all "From the Paperback edition."

The Past Through Tomorrow

The Past Through Tomorrow
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Publisher : New English Library
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 0450040054
ISBN-13 : 9780450040054
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Past Through Tomorrow by : Robert Anson Heinlein

The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana

The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana
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Publisher : Pulpless.Com
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 1584450150
ISBN-13 : 9781584450153
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana by : J. Neil Schulman

In 1975, Robert A. Heinlein was sixty-six, at the height of his literary career; J. Neil Schulman was twenty and hadn't yet started his first novel. Because he was looking for a way to meet his idol, Schulman wangled an assignment from the New York Daily News--at the time the largest circulation newspaper in the U.S.--to interview Heinlein for its Sunday Book Supplement. The resulting taped interview lasted three-and-a-half hours. This turned out to be the longest interview Heinlein ever granted, and the only one in which he talked freely and extensively about his personal philosophy and ideology. "The Robert Heinlein Interview" contains Heinlein you won't find anywhere else--even in Heinlein's own "Expanded Universe." If you wnat to know what Heinlein had to say about UFO's, life after death, epistemology, or libertarianism, this interview is the only source available. Also included in this collection are articles, reviews, and letters that J. Neil Schulman wrote about Heinlein, including the original article written for The Daily News, about which the Heinleins wrote Schulman that it was, "The best article--in style, content, and accuracy--of the many, many written about him over the years." This book is must-reading for any serious student of Heinlein, or any reader seeking to know him better.

Have Space Suit, Will Travel

Have Space Suit, Will Travel
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781416505495
ISBN-13 : 1416505490
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Have Space Suit, Will Travel by : Robert A. Heinlein

A high school senior wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest, takes a last walk wearing "Oscar" before cashing him in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey.

Revolt in 2100

Revolt in 2100
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Publisher : Roc
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : LCCN:53012529
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Revolt in 2100 by : Robert Anson Heinlein

In the year 2100 a corrupt dictator rules the United States, but one soldier dares to defy authority and risk his life to overthrow tyranny.

For Us, The Living

For Us, The Living
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9780743261579
ISBN-13 : 0743261577
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis For Us, The Living by : Robert A. Heinlein

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.

Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9781101503072
ISBN-13 : 1101503076
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Time Enough for Love by : Robert A. Heinlein

The capstone and crowning achievement of the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction... Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.