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BOOKS by Robert A Heinlein

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Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land more books like this

by Robert A. Heinlein

This 1961 novel, considered to be one of Heinlein's definitive works, was the first science fiction book ever to make the bestseller lists. Valentine Michael Smith, a human child raised on Mars, returns to Earth with psychic powers and a strongly alien outlook. After some difficulties in understanding and acclimating to society, he teaches others ...

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Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

In a world of the future, a young man undergoes brutal military training after graduating from high school. Then an alien fleet invades Earth, and the young trooper must put his training to the test in a galactic-scale war.

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Friday

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by Robert A Heinlein

Written towards the end of Heinlein's career, this novel follows the adventures of Friday, an artificial person who longs for a normal life. Unfortunately for Friday, her work as a courier for a man called "Boss" gets her into much more trouble than it is worth.

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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by Robert A Heinlein

This novel of revolution on the moon in 2076 won a Hugo Award and helped launch modern libertarianism.

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Glory Road

Glory Road more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

Answering a somewhat cryptic ad, an adventurer nicknamed "Scar" winds up on a quest to retrieve a missing computer component at the behest of a beautiful woman claiming to be a scientist.

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Tunnel in the sky

Tunnel in the sky more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

As part of their final exam, Rod Walker's high school class must survive an extended excursion into the wilds of an alien planet. But when an accident leaves them lost on the far side of the universe, they find their classroom learning put to a more serious challenge than even their teachers imagined. Originally published in 1955, this is one of ...

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Stranger in Strange L more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

This 1961 novel, considered to be one of Heinlein's definitive works, was the first science fiction book ever to make the bestseller lists. Valentine Michael Smith, a human child raised on Mars, returns to Earth with psychic powers and a strongly alien outlook. After some difficulties in understanding and acclimating to society, he teaches others ...

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Citizen of the Galaxy

Citizen of the Galaxy more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

A rebellious slave boy is purchased by an unlikely beggar and grows to be a galactic power.

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Time for the Stars

Time for the Stars more books like this

by Robert A. Heinlein

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.

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Door Into Summer

Door Into Summer more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

An inventor of timesaving household devices is frozen for 30 years after falling prey to an unscrupulous partner and girlfriend, who plan to profit from his latest invention, a specialized robot. When his wakes up in the year 2000, though, he realizes that his foes didn't count on one thing--time travel was perfected in the interim, allowing the ...

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Space Cadet

Space Cadet more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

In Heinlein's second juvenile space adventure, he recasts his own experiences at military school in science fictional terms as he tells the story of two young men who undergo a tortuous series of exams before qualifying to travel to Venus as junior officers.

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For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

Perry Nelson wakes from a 1939 car accident to discover that it is now 2086. Perry is then educated about the marvelous social and economic changes that have occurred since his original time period. This first, previously unpublished work by Robert Heinlein holds within it the seeds of his famous FUTURE HISTORY series of stories and novels.

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Man Who Sold the Moon more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

Heinlein's "Future History" is a unique tapestry, a series of interrelated stories and novels that chronicle human history from the mid-20th century to a time more than twenty centuries hence. The Man Who Sold the Moon is a pivotal work in that tapestry of the future, chronicling the amazing events and discoveries between the "crazy years" and the ...

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Number of the Beast more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

Four characters, two men and two women, embark on a dimension-hopping adventure that leads through real, imagined, and shared worlds.

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Podkayne of Mars more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

One of Heinlein's juvenile space adventures, this books features 16-year-old Martian girl, Podkayne Fries, who agrees to accompany her uncle and younger brother to Earth so that she can learn about becoming a starship captain. Sidetracked on Venus under some extremely suspicious circumstances, Podkayne finds herself tangled up in a conspiracy.

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Past Through Tomorrow more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

Novels and short stories of Heinlein's Future History world, collected in one volume.

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Farnhams Freehold more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

A Colorado Springs family exits their bomb shelter after a nuclear war, to find themselves 2,000 years into the future, in a very different society from the one they left.

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Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long more books like this

by Robert A. Heinlein

Approaching death, Lazarus Long is convinced to dictate the story of his life. He finds that while he has lived and loved more than most, there are still things that he'd like to experience.

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Variable Star more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein, Spider Robinson

Begun in 1955, "Variable Star" was set aside by Heinlein so he could focus on other novels--and was never completed. Now, almost two decades after Heinleins death, Nebula Award-winning author Robinson picks up Heinleins outline and expands it into a full-length novel, faithful in style and spirit to the Grand Masters original vision.

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I Will Fear No Evil more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

Written at the dawn of the 1970s, this Heinlein novel concerns an extremely rich, fairly old tycoon who is trying to "take it all with him." His solution is to have his mind transplanted into the body of his recently deceased secretary. Once there, he finds that her mind remains active, and together they learn to share control of her body.

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Have Spacesuit-Will Travel more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

One of the most famous of Heinlein's juvenile science-fiction novels, this book follows the adventures of a teenager with a secondhand space suit and dreams of visiting the Moon. Along with his friend, a 9-year-old girl, he travels into space and to all kinds of exotic planets, but something always comes up to prevent him from getting to the Moon.

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Grumbles from the Grave more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

This is a posthumously published collection of Heinlein's letters.

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Rocket Ship Galileo more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

A boy, his two friends, and his scientist uncle set forth in a homemade rocket with the hopes of reaching the moon. Once there, they discover a top-secret military base from which the Nazis are planning their conquest of the world. Written in 1947, this is one of Heinlein's first books, and the first of his extremely influential series of juvenile ...

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Have Space Suit-Will Travel more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

One of the most famous of Heinlein's juvenile science-fiction novels, this book follows the adventures of a teenager with a secondhand space suit and dreams of visiting the Moon. Along with his friend, a 9-year-old girl, he travels into space and to all kinds of exotic planets, but something always comes up to prevent him from getting to the Moon.

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Between Planets more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

In this juvenile science-fiction adventure, a boy on a mysterious journey to Mars to meet his parents ends up captured and shipped to Venus.

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