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Contents 1 Parent topics 2 Subtopics 2.1 Novels 2.2 Collections 2.3 Short stories and novelettes 2.4 Short stories and novelettes (pseudonymous) 2.5 Nonfiction 3 Other related topics

Parent topics

• literature [r]: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. [e]
• science fiction [r]: A story-telling genre that presents alternatives to what is currently considered scientifically possible or that extrapolates from present-day knowledge. [e]

Subtopics

• Future History [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pantheistic solipsism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Novels

• Between Planets [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Citizen of the Galaxy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Double Star [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Farnham's Freehold [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Glory Road [r]: Add brief definition or description
• I Shall Fear No Evil (book) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "The Number of the Beast" [r]: One of Robert A. Heinlein's later and more controversial novels, exploring the world as myth paradigm, base on the use of a time-space-alternate probability machine. It has a great many subtle references to earlier works and may be hard to understand by those without extensive familiarity to the body of his writing. [e]
• Podkayne of Mars [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Red Planet [r]: An early Robert A. Heinlein juvenile novel set in a well-developed Mars colony, which still challenged convention with such matters as the role of authority, the availability of guns, and gender roles; also a coming-of-age novel [e]
• Rocket Ship Galileo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• The Rolling Stones (book) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Space Cadet (book) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Starman Jones [r]: Another Robert A. Heinlein "juvenile"/coming-of-age novel, exploring guild socialism and social stratification, the nature of duty, and, interestingly, the role of computer technicians in a context that completely missed trends in the development of real computers [e]
• Star Beast (book) [r]: Formally one of Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile novels, and indeed an entertaining story as read, it also has a great deal of commentary on cross-cultural communications as well as skewering a variety of pompous American stereotypes; it includes some double entendres missed by his editor of the time, usually intent on stamping out the slightest reference to reproduction or naughty words [e]
• Starship Troopers (book) [r]: Perhaps best recognized for its portrayal of future infantry using powered exoskeleton suits dropped from space, this book, by Robert A. Heinlein, was the first to make the professional reading list of all four U.S. military services, with its insights into military discipline, motivation and command. The movie version shares little besides the title; there are no serious plot similarities [e]
• Stranger in a Strange Land [r]: Robert A. Heinlein's breakthrough novel into bestseller publishing, still using science fiction techniques to examine assumptions in our society; especially harsh on organized religion and authoritarian government, but especially liberal on the many forms of love and respect for humanity [e]
• Time Enough for Love [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tunnel in the Sky [r]: Add brief definition or description

Collections

• Man Who Sold the Moon (collection) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Menace from Earth (collection) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Revolt in 2100 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (collection) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Waldo and Magic, Inc. [r]: Add brief definition or description

Short stories and novelettes

• "Blowups Happen" [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "Coventry" (short story) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "Delilah and the Space Rigger" [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "The Green Hills of Earth" (short story) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "Life-Line" (short story) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "The Man Who Sold the Moon" (short story) [r]: A central short story in the Future History series by Robert Heinlein, in which the major character, D.D. Harriman, creates a commercial enterprise to make the first space flights to the Moon [e]
• "The Menace from Earth" [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "Requiem" (short story) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "The Roads Must Roll" [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "Searchlight" (short story) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "Solution Unsatisfactory" (short story) [r]: A science fiction story by Robert Heinlein, dealing with an alternative history in which the U.S. develops and uses radiological weapons in the Second World War [e]
• "Space Jockey" [r]: Add brief definition or description
• "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" [r]: Add brief definition or description

Short stories and novelettes (pseudonymous)

• "By His Bootstraps" [r]: Add brief definition or description

Nonfiction

• Grumbles from the Grave [r]: A selection of Robert A. Heinlein's correspondence, serving as a posthumous memoir. [e]

Other related topics

• Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award [r]: Award given to authors of science fiction and/or fantasy in recognition of their overall life's work, administered by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). [e]