Heinlein, Robert A.
Author Biography & Works
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Books by Heinlein, Robert A.
Starship Troopers
Book Flap Description A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most frightening enemy. ...
Stranger In A Strange Land
An expedition to Mars is lost. Twenty five years later, a second expedition finds there is one survivor of the first expedition, Valentine Michael Smith, who was raised by Martians....
Rocket Ship Galileo
(Heinlein Juveniles) Start here
Three teenagers and an older scientist develop their own atomic rocket, solve their own space problems and blast off for the moon in spite of mysterious setbacks.
Space Cadet
A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular...
Red Planet
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...
Farmer In The Sky
Farmer In The Sky is a 1950 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenaged boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in...
Between Planets
A young man travels from an uuper class dude ranch school to join his family on Venus from Earth. He is evidently unbeknownsth to himself a courier of secret information...
The Rolling Stones
SciFi YA - The rollicking adventures of the Stone Family on a tour of the Solar System. It all started when the twins, Castor and Pollux Stone, decided that life...
Starman Jones
When his stepmother's remarriage drives him from home, Max and a hobo fake their way into the Space Stewards, Cooks, and Purser's Clerks brotherhood to get an opportunity for space...
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...
Tunnel In The Sky
This is a wonderful thought provoking book. Survival and the creation of initial social, community and even political themes are explored. A pivotal entry into my young mind. I still...
Time For The Stars
This is a coming of age story about a set of twins who embark on a journey of exploration in space, but one never leaves planet earth. One grows old,...
Citizen Of The Galaxy
From helpless slave to beloved son to aspiring merchant to prodigal heir, Citizen of the Galaxy shows the inner and outer growth of a young man in a far-flung Galactic...
Farnham's Freehold
This novel was first published in 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation—a real apocalypse!—still fresh on people's minds. In this...
The Door Into Summer
1970. A.D. Daniel Boone Davis is an inventor of household robots, who's been cheated out of his patents and company by a conniving friend and girlfriend, who stop just short...
The Number Of The Beast
(The World As Myth) Start here
Heinlein buff David Potter explained on alt.fan.heinlein, in a posting reprinted on the Heinlein Society, that the entire book is actually "one of the greatest textbooks on narrative fiction ever...
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Mission: retrieve the computer backups that can restore the sentient computer who masterminded the 2075 revolution that freed Luna.
To Sail Beyond The Sunset
SciFi - Subtitled "The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)". Maureen Johnson is the mother of Woodrow Wilson Smith/Lazarus Long/Theodore Bronson. This...
Assignment in Eternity
A short novel where a professor and his students learn to move across timelines; several worlds are visited.
Orphans of the Sky
A classic of the sub-genre. In this book, a combination of two earlier stories, the crew has forgotten that they are on a ship until an intelligent hero has a...
Methuselah's Children
(Lazarus Long) Start here
Part of the Future History series and the first introduction of the character Lazarus Long. The Howard families have achieved long lifespans through selective breeding, and financial wealth.
Lazarus Long series
Lazarus Long is the product of a selective breeding program and has an unusually long lifespan.
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