Books written by Robert A. Heinlein

  • Time for the Stars
    Time for the Stars

    For a telepathic twin on an exploratory space voyage only a few years pass, yet, when he returns to Earth his brother is ready to celebrate his ninetieth birthday.

  • The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein
    The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein

    Collected in a single volume for the first time, all of Heinlein's finest fantasy short stories and novellas come together in a selection that includes "Magic, Inc.

  • The Rolling Stones

    This light-hearted tale has some of Heinlein' s sassiest dialogue. Oddly enough, it' s also a true example of family values-- for when you' re a Stone, your family is your highest priority.

  • Orphans of the Sky
    Orphans of the Sky

    The Jordan Foundation sponsored the Proxima Centauri Expedition in 2119, in attempt to reach the nearer stars of the galaxy.

  • The Rolling Stones

    This light-hearted tale has some of Heinlein' s sassiest dialogue. Oddly enough, it' s also a true example of family values-- for when you' re a Stone, your family is your highest priority.

  • Double Star

    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.

  • Waldo and Magic Inc.

    Waldo and Magic Inc.

  • The Green Hills of Earth

    In this volume of Heinlein's monumental "Future History" series, free men clash with colonial slavery on Venus, the first female space engineer takes an orbiting station by storm, and a young lieutenant makes the ultimate sacrifice to keep ...

  • Space Cadet
    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 Patrol vessel and encounters danger on Venus.

  • The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth
    The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth

    Barnes' friendly face looked puzzled. "Well—" The bartender put down ... "It's all very well to talk about Columbus," Barnes persisted, "but he expected to come back. You guys don't expect to. ... And our grandchildren will come back.

  • Von Stern zu Stern: Science-Fiction-Klassiker

    Von Stern zu Stern: Science-Fiction-Klassiker

  • Starship Troopers
    Starship Troopers

    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 ...

  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two-A: The Great Novellas
    The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two-A: The Great Novellas

    The two volumes were originally published in 1973 (Two-A) and 1974 (Two-B) after the stories were selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA, now known as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of ...

  • Podkayne of Mars
    Podkayne of Mars

    I certainly haven't seen or heard any evidences of anybody else and I suppose that Mrs. Grew has been doing it with an absolute minimum of ... Mrs. Grew is so fat she couldn't chase anybody on a race track, much less a swamp.

  • Space Cadet
    Space Cadet

    The infection was all through the ship and I couldn't chase it down . We finished that trip on preserved foods and short rations and I wasn't allowed to eat at the table the rest of the trip . ” He smiled to himself , then shouted at ...

  • Stranger in a Strange Land
    Stranger in a Strange Land

    “Oh, I didn't mean I was quitting.” “It means that to me, son.” “But—what the hell? I've eaten in the kitchen lots of times.” “Other circumstances. Nobody under my roof refuses to eat at my table because he won't eat with others who eat ...

  • Friday
    Friday

    A beautiful interplanetary agent, a glorious product of genetic engineering, operates from and over a near-future Earth.

  • Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume One
    Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume One

    More importantly, this collection is as close to an autobiography as anything Heinlein wrote during his life. Heinlein was an extremely private person who never wrote much about himself.

  • Stranger in a Strange Land
    Stranger in a Strange Land

    The original uncut edition of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Hugo Award winner Robert A Heinlein - one of the most beloved, celebrated science-fiction novels of all time.

  • Space Cadet
    Space Cadet

    This is the seminal novel of a young man's education as a member of an elite, paternalistic non-military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization, the Solar Patrol, a provocative parallel to Heinlein's famous later ...