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Expanded Universe
| Author: | Robert A. Heinlein |
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Grosset & Dunlap, 1980 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging form Crime and Punishment to the Love life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitic to Post-Holocaust America; fro the Nature of Courage to the Nature of Reality; it's all here and it's all great-straight from the mind of the finest science fiction writer of them all. But beware: after reading it, you too will occupy an Expanded Universe!
Table of Contents:
- Foreword (Expanded Universe) - (1980) - essay
- Life-Line - [Future History] - (1939) - shortstory
- Successful Operation - (1940) - shortstory
- Blowups Happen - [Future History] - (1940) - novelette
- Solution Unsatisfactory - (1941) - novelette
- The Last Days of the United States - (1980) - essay
- How to Be a Survivor - (1980) - essay
- Pie from the Sky - (1980) - essay
- They Do It With Mirrors - non-genre - (1947) - shortstory
- Free Men - (1966) - novelette
- No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying - (1973) - shortstory
- A Bathroom of Her Own - (1980) - shortstory
- On the Slopes of Vesuvius - (1980) - shortstory
- Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon - (1949) - novelette
- Pandora's Box - (1966) - essay
- Where To? - (1952) - essay
- Cliff and the Calories - (1980) - shortstory
- The Answers - (2005) - essay
- Ray Guns and Rocket Ships - (1952) - essay
- The Third Millennium Opens - (1956) - essay (variant of As I See Tomorrow... The Third Millenium Opens)
- Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry? - (1958) - essay
- "Pravda" Means "Truth" - (1960) - essay
- Inside Intourist - (1960) - essay
- Searchlight - [Future History] - (1962) - shortstory
- The Pragmatics of Patriotism - (1973) - essay
- Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You - (1975) - essay
- Larger Than Life: A Memoir in Tribute to Dr. Edward E. Smith - (1980) - essay
- Spinoff - (1980) - essay
- The Happy Days Ahead - (1980) - essay
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