Robert A. Heinlein

Introducing two classic short novels by Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction's Grand Master. Don't count out the underdog! Waldo North Power Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate and no one can figure out the

From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the extraordinary work of the grandmaster of SF, Robert A. Heinlein.This one-volume omnibus of Heinlein's famous 'Future History' timeline, contains all of the stories, novellas and novels that make up one of the richest coherent narratives in all of science fiction literature. The collections and novels comprising THE PAST THROUGH TOMORROW are THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON, THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH, REVOLT IN 2100, METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN and ORPHANS OF THE SKY.

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, his love for time ultimately causing him to become his own ancestor. 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 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.

A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greats.

The HUGO AWARD-winning novel from one of the true greats of science fiction.

Two classic Robert A. Heinlein novels in one volume: The Man Who Sold The Moon and Orphans of the Sky. In The Man Who Sold the Moon, D. D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of space for all mankind.

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, plus two great stories.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.

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

Before the Tea Party, the Coffee Party, the "Occupy" movement, Ross Perot or even the Libertarian Party, there was Robert Heinlein, a prophetic mastermind, calling to the people to organize in a grassroots movement to take back their government and to fin

Meisterwerk der Science Fiction Das epochale Werk des vielleicht bedeutendsten SF-Autors aller Zeiten: Robert A. Heinleins Parabel vom Marsianer Valentine Michael Smith, der in die politischen und religiösen Wirren der Erde gerät, ist nur mit Meisterwerken wie "Schöne neue Welt" und "Fahrenheit 451" vergleichbar. Erstmals in der ungekürzten Originalfassung!

After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same. Now called Alec Graham, he is in the middle of an affair with his stewardess, Margrethe, when natural disasters begin plaguing them. First, there is an impossible iceberg that wrecks the ship in the tropics; then, after being rescued by a Royal Mexican plane, they are hit by a double earthquake. To Alex, the signs are clear: Armageddon and the Day of Judgment are near. Somehow, he has to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of grace, for heaven would be no paradise without her. But time is growing short. And, while he is at it, there has to be a way to save the rest of the world.

"Requiem" is a compelling celebration of Robert A. Heinlein and his vision, containing many rare, uncollected works by the Grand Master of science fiction, including the novellas "Destination Moon," which was made into the famous George Pal film, and "Tenderfoot in Space." Also featured are contributions from such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, Greg Bear, and Larry Niven.Heinlein was the pre-eminent science fiction writer of the twentieth century, and "Requiem" reveals his mass influence on and passion for space exploration--his glory and his dream.

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. North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, sharing only a bizarrely vulgarized culture. Now, Friday finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at the seemingly whimsical behest of her secret employer, known to her only as "Boss." Traveling from New Zealand to Canada, from one new state of America's disunion to the next, she is confronted with a series of professional as well as personal crises that put her to the test. She must findquick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face. Not since Valentine Michael Smith, hero of Stranger in a Strange Land, has Heinlein created a more captivating protagonist. Fridayproves once again why Henlein's novels have sold millions of copies, won countless awards, and earned him the title of Grand Master of Science Fiction.

In a futuristic military adventure, a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe, and he prepares for battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War against humankind's most terrifying enemy. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hired to work for a beautiful woman, Vietnam War veteran Oscar discovers his employer's identity as the empress of numerous universes and begins a quest to retrieve the stolen Great Egg, an adventure during which he faces such challenges as dragons, giants, and magical spells. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A fictional account of America's rise to prominence is supplemented by expository essays expressing the distinguished science-fiction writer's opinions on such diversified subjects as crime, nuclear power, teenagers' sex lives, and patriotism, in a new edition of the classic work by the author of Stranger in a Strange Land. Reprint.

From the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Starship Troopers "and the first Grand Master of Science Fiction... Lazarus Long 1916-4272 The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, " 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.

Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.