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Robert Heinlein
Books and Stories
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907; he died in 1988. He entered the Naval Academy in 1925 and was commissioned in 1929; his career as a naval officer was cut short by ill health. He studied engineering and mathematics at UCLA.
Heinlein also wrote as Anson MacDonald and Lyle Monroe. He wrote his first short story (Lifeline) in 1939. He wrote many well-known novels (see below). He received the Nebula Grand Master award in 1975. Select
a novel or story title to see the inventions from that work:
-And He Built A Crooked House, Street and Smith, 1940
Assignment in Eternity, Signet, 1953
Between Planets, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951
Beyond This Horizon, Astounding Science Fiction, 1942
Blowups Happen, Street and Smith Publications, 1940
Citizen of the Galaxy, Astounding Science Fiction, 1957
Common Sense, Astounding Science Fiction, 1941
Coventry, Astounding Science Fiction, 1940
Double Star, Doubleday, 1956
Farmer in the Sky, Scribners, 1950
Friday, Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1982
Gentlemen, Be Seated, Argosy, 1948
Glory Road, Gregg Press, 1963
Gulf, Astounding Science Fiction, 1949
Have Space Suit - Will Travel, Scribners, 1958
If This Goes On..., Astounding Science-Fiction, 1940
Lifeline, Street and Smith, 1939
Logic of Empire, Astounding Science Fiction, 1941
Methuselah's Children, Astounding Science-Fiction, 1941
Misfit, Astounding Science Fiction, 1939
Podkayne of Mars, Worlds of IF, 1962
Red Planet, Scribner, 1949
Requiem, Astounding Science Fiction, 1940
Sky Lift, Imagination, 1953
Space Cadet, Scribner's Sons, 1948
Starman Jones, Scribners, 1953
Starship Troopers, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959
Stranger in a Strange Land, Putnam, 1961
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Putnam, 1985
The Door Into Summer, Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1956
The Man Who Sold The Moon, Shasta, 1950
The Menace From Earth, Fantasy House, 1957
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, GP Putnam, 1966
The Puppet Masters, Doubleday, 1951
The Roads Must Roll, Astounding Science Fiction, 1940
The Rolling Stones, Scribner's, 1952
The Star Beast, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954
Time Enough For Love, Putnam, 1973
Tunnel in the Sky, Not Available, 1955
Waldo, Astounding Science Fiction, 1942
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