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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1941
  • Latest Book:
    March 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Future History/Heinlein Timeline

1 - The Man Who Sold the Moon (Feb-1951)
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Jan-1979)

Book List in Order: 58 titles



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    LOST IN SPACE Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was actually allogory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship mo...



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    Hero Lazarus Long returns in these two marvellous novellas from one of comtemporary science fiction's favourite writers, Robert A. Heinlein.

    The date is 2100; the setting is a second American revolution. The true freedom and justice t...



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    One by one, the Free Nations had fallen, until America stood alone in arms against the World. Then, as researchers toiled desperately to complete work on a weapon that might yet turn the tide of battle, she too fell. Now, though scattered resistance...



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    The reissue of a classic science fiction novel, featuring dazzling new cover art, displays the celebrated imagination of one of the greatest masters of twentieth-century science fiction, author of Stranger in a Strange Land, The Puppet Masters, <...



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    [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]

    [Read by Tom Weiner]Part supernatural thriller, part noir detective story, Heinlein's trip down the rabbit hole leads where you never expected. Jonathan Hoag has a curious problem. Ever...



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    [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.]

    [Read by Tom Weiner] ''The Green Hills of Earth'' is a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction w...



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    Perhaps the most important book ever written on the subject of warfare. It can be used and adapted in every facet of your life. This book explains when and how to go to war, as well as when not to. The wisdom of the ages is distilled here, A book for...



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    They called themselves the Galileo Club -- not a bad name for a group of space-minded young men who had high hopes of putting one of their homemade rocket ships in orbit.
    But it wasn't until they teamed up with Doc Cargraves that their impossible ...



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    Only the best and brightest -- the strongest and the most courageous -- ever managed to become Space Cadets. They were the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others feared, taking risks no others dared, and upholding the peace of the...






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    Jim Marlowe's Martian pet, Willis, seems like nothing more than an adorable ball of fur. But Jim's devotion to the little creature will soon lead him and his pal Frank into a death-defying trek across Mars....



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    Bill knew his destiny lay in the stars, but how was he to get there?
    George Lerner was shipping out for Ganymede to join the fledgling colony, and Bill wanted to go along. But his father would not hear of it -- far too dangerous a mission!
    Bill...



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    Don''t count out the underdog...Two classic short novels by Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction’s Grand Master. WaldoNorth Power Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate and no one can figure out the cause. Desperate f...



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    DEADLY EXPOSURE At key points throughout North America, an invasion force is taking over communications, government, industry--and people's bodies. And the nation is helpless to stop it because the invaders multiply far faster than they can be destr...



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    The message had seemed simple, yet it was more complex than Don could have imagined. He was being called from Earth to an alien world for reasons unknown -- save only that his life depended on it.

    But setting out for Mars and getting there in ...



  • Two scientists have contrived to develop cheap solar power and end up rivaling the highest of industrial standards. The nation`s cities link up by a system of moving roads and a strike can disable the entire country. Workers i...



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    A statistician attempts to make sense of a world gone mad in an apocalyptic sci-fi scenario from the Hugo Award"winning author of Starship Troopers.   Multiple Hugo Award winner Robert Heinlein earned countless fans, accolades, and honors with...



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    WHERE WERE THEY? IN FACT, WHEN WERE THEY? AND HOW COULD THEY GET BACK? It's easy to stow away on an intergalactic spaceship, if you're a smart lad like Max Jones. But it's quite another thing when the spaceship touches down on an unknown planet afte...



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    Two short novels

    Robert A. Heinlein is widely and justly regarded as the greatest practitioner of the art of science fiction who has ever lived. Here are two of his greatest short novels:

    Gulf

    In which the greatest superspy ...






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    Hero Lazarus Long returns in these two marvellous novellas from one of comtemporary science fiction's favourite writers, Robert A. Heinlein.

    The date is 2100; the setting is a second American revolution. The true freedom and justice t...



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    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 had eaten the secondhand Buick . . .
    But now, all of a sudden and without explanatio...



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    When Rod Walker decides to take the final test for “Deacon” Matson''s interplanetary survival course, he knows he will be facing life-or-death situations on an unsettled planet. What he doesn''t expect is that something will go wrong w...



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    [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.]

    [Read by Tom Weiner]One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is in a bar, drinking away his troubles. Then a space pilot buy...



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    Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and...



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    SLAVE Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippled master... OUTLAW Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous ...



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    From Cavernous Cities Beneath The Surface of The Moon...Earth seems a sinister planet hanging in the sky. But to the Pluto colony, Earth Satellite Base holds the only possible reprieve from a terrifying death sentence. And on Earth itself, alien in...



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    SKYJACKED Everything happened at once. One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the Moon -- and the next he was out cold and the captive of an insidious space pirate. The...



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    A young man walks into a bar and meets a time-traveling bartender whose origins -- and relation to the young man -- are more convoluted and stranger than the snake-swallowing-his-tail ring on the barkeep's finger. Robert A. Heinlein's "All You Zombie...



  • [Read by Patrick Lawlor]Dan Davis had finally created the invention of a lifetime--and his life was ruined. Tricked by his greedy partner and greedier fiancée into suspended animation for thirty years, Dan awoke in AD 2000 and plotted his revenge....






  • COSMIC COMBAT The Mobile Infantry of the startling twenty- second century attracts young and eager-to serve Johnnie Rico. He enters basic training as a naive youth who must learn quickly how to cope with every soldier's problems of courage, discip...



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    A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time—part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman

    Winner of the AIGA + Design Obser...



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    While accompanying their uncle, a wily politician, on a trip from Mars to Earth, Podkayne and her brilliant, but pesky brother are caught in a plot to keep Uncle Tom from an important conference. Reprint....



  • Responding to an ad for a brave, handsome, and emotionally unattached man, E. C. "Scar" Gordon is enthralled by the gorgeous Amazon-like technician who interviews him before sending him on the adventure of a lifetime. Reprint....



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    Hugh Farnham is a practical, self-made man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. But when the apocalypse comes, something happens that he did not expec...



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    In what is considered one of his most hair-raising, thought-provoking and outrageous adventures, the master of modern SF tells the strange story of an even stranger world--21st century Luna, a harsh penal colony where a revolt is plotted between a ba...



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    Merchant Adventurer Nicholas van Rijn in the Second Chronicle of the Polesotechnic Lea gue! Humankind had explored the galaxy: Nicholas van Rijn had bought it. A star wide empire was difficult to run, but the old man was wily and the resources of the...




  • The brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant from New York Times bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein.As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's awesome masterpiece about a man supremely ta...



  • LAZARUS LONG 1916-4272 The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, ...








  • When the Stone twins made up their minds to leave Lunar City in a secondhand spaceship, they hadn't planned on having their whole family accompany them. But the Stones were not your ordinary Lunar family -- no way! -- and their voyage through the sol...



  • Too young to fight in the First World War, but destined to lead the first successful expedition to another star system, the (literally) immortal Lazarus Long is the most popular and enduring character created by Robert A. Heinlein, author of numerous...



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    For the Millions of Heinlein Fans-a Guided Tour Through the Thoughts and Insights of "One of the Most Influential Writers in American Literature" (The New York Times Book Review).The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York T...



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    An absolutely essential and 'must read' novel for the legions of Robert Heinlein fans, The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes is an extraordinary work of science fiction—Midwest Book Review Heinlein still off...



  • When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of ad...



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    FRIDAY ... is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss:' Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vul...



  • SOMETHING WAS OUT TO GET HIM After that firewalking gig in Polynesia, the whole world was suddenly changed around him. Instead of fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer, he was now supposed to be Alec Graham, an underworld figure in the m...



  • Robert A. Heinlein has written some of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time, including the beloved classic STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. Now, in THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS, he creates his most compelling character ever: Dr. Richard A...



  • Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The man-is a stranger to her, and besides ...











  • A collection of works--most never before published in book form--by the first Grand Master (Science Fiction Writers of America). Includes major novellas "Tenderfoot in Space" and "Destination Moon," which was made into the famous George Pal film. Tri...



  • Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of American SF writers, also wrote fantasy fiction throughout his long career, but especially in the early 1940s. The Golden Age of SF was also a time of revolution in fantasy fiction, and Heinlein was at the forefront. H...



  • A man awakens to a changed world in the long-lost first novel by the author of Starship Troopers -- “a major contribution to the history of the genre” (The New York Times Book Review).From the author of Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a H...



  • Project Moonbase contains the screenplay for the now classic sf film, plus eleven finished teleplays and two story outlines for a projected television show, The World Beyond. In addition to original tales (the story outlines "Home Sweet Home" and "Th...



  • “The single most important and valuable Heinlein book ever published.” -- Spider Robinson

    Robert A. Heinlein has been hailed as one of the most forward-thinking science fiction writers of all time, and Expanded Universe(presented in two volu...



  • “The single most important and valuable Heinlein book ever published.” -- Spider RobinsonRobert A. Heinlein has been hailed as one of the most forward-thinking science fiction writers of all time, and Expanded Universe (presented in two volumes) ...


Award-Winning Books by Robert A. Heinlein

Double Star
1956 Hugo Award -- Novel
Job: a Comedy of Justice
1985 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
1967 Hugo Award -- Novel
Starship Troopers
1960 Hugo Award -- Novel
Stranger in a Strange Land
1962 Hugo Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert A. Heinlein has published 58 books.

Robert A. Heinlein does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume Two, was published in March 2015.

The first book by Robert A. Heinlein, Sixth Column, was published in January 1941.

Yes. Robert A. Heinlein has 1 series.