Robert A. Heinlein, In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2

by William H. Patterson, Jr.

  8. Virginia Heinlein recalled that Leslyn was being sent $40 a month in the summer of 1947. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Series 2, Tape A, Side B (September 6, 2000).

  9. From this point, Mrs. Sang is recounting events she personally experienced.

  10. Philip Wylie—A favorite writer and moralist of both Robert and Leslyn Heinlein. It was, in fact, Leslyn who wrote Wylie a fan letter, rather than Robert Heinlein.

  11. Heinlein had relocated to Ojai on July 7, 1947—his fortieth birthday. These events are covered in chapter 29 of Learning Curve, the first volume of this biography.

  12. Grace Dugan Sang had recommended Fink to the Heinleins.

  WORKS OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

  A WORD ABOUT THE VIRGINIA EDITION (VE)

  The Heinlein Prize Trust assembled the Virginia Edition as a Collected Works edition of the best text available for each work. In addition to all the expected fiction and nonfiction, the Virginia Edition found material that had been published once and never reprinted, and also some manuscripts that had never been published in any form. By adding more than a million words of Heinlein’s correspondence (including both sides of the correspondence between Heinlein and John W. Campbell, Jr.), together with all the major print interviews, the Virginia Edition brings substantially all of Heinlein into print together for the first time, and almost any individual work may be found there, whether or not special notice of this fact is made in the listings here.

  BOOKS

  Assignment in Eternity (1953). Collects: “Gulf,” “Elsewhen,” “Lost Legacy,” and “Jerry Was a Man.”

  The Best of Robert Heinlein (1973). Ed. Angus Wells. British collection containing: Introduction by Peter R. Weston, “Life-Line,” “The Roads Must Roll,” “‘—And He Built a Crooked House—,’” “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag,” “The Green Hills of Earth,” “The Long Watch,” “The Man Who Sold the Moon,” and “‘—All You Zombies—.’”

  Between Planets (1951). Serial publication as “Planets in Combat” in Blue Book (September, October 1951).

  Beyond This Horizon (1948). Serial publication as by “Anson MacDonald” in Astounding Science-Fiction (April, May 1942).

  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985).

  Citizen of the Galaxy (1957). Serial publication in Astounding Science Fiction (September, October, November, December 1957).

  The Day After Tomorrow. See Sixth Column.

  Destination: Moon. Ed. David G Hartwell. (1979)

  The Door into Summer (1957). Serial publication in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October, November, December 1956).

  Double Star (1956). Serial publication in Astounding Science Fiction (February, March, April 1956). Hugo Award Winner.

  Expanded Universe: The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1980). Collection, expanded from The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein. collects: “Life-Line,” “Successful Operation,” “Blowups Happen,” “Solution Unsatisfactory,” “The Last Days of the United States,” “How to Be a Survivor,” “Pie from the Sky,” “They Do It With Mirrors,” “Free Men,” “No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying—,” “A Bathroom of Her Own,” “On the Slopes of Vesuvius,” “Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon,” “Pandora’s Box,” “Where To?,” “Cliff and the Calories,” “Ray Guns and Rocket Ships,” “The Third Millennium Opens,” “Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?,” “‘Pravda’ Means ‘Truth,’” “Inside Intourist,” “Searchlight,” “The Pragmatics of Patriotism,” “Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You,” “Larger Than Life,” “Spinoff,” “The Happy Days Ahead.” Short essays by Heinlein before and after each piece.

  The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999). Combines The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag and Waldo and Magic, Inc.

  Farmer in the Sky (1950). Serial publication as “Satellite Scout” in Boys’ Life (August, September, October, November 1950).

  Farnham’s Freehold (1964). Serial publication in Worlds of If (July, August, October 1964).

  For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs (2004).

  Four Frontiers (2005). Collects Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet, and Farmer in the Sky.

  Friday (1982). Selection published in Science Fiction Digest, vol. 1, no. 4 (September-October 1982).

  Glory Road (1963). Serial publication in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (July, August, September 1963).

  The Green Hills of Earth (1951). Collects: “Delilah and the Space-Rigger,” “Space Jockey,” “The Long Watch,” “Gentlemen, Be Seated,” “The Black Pits of Luna,” “‘It’s Great to be Back!,’” “‘—We Also Walk Dogs,’” “Ordeal in Space,” “The Green Hills of Earth,” and “Logic of Empire.” See also The Past Through Tomorrow.

  Grumbles from the Grave (1989). Ed. Virginia Heinlein.

  Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958). Serial publication in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August, September, October 1958).

  A Heinlein Triad (UK, 1966). See Three by Heinlein.

  A Heinlein Trio (1980). Science Fiction Book Club collection containing The Door into Summer, Double Star, and The Puppet Masters.

  I Will Fear No Evil (1970). Serial publication in Galaxy Science Fiction (July, August-September, October-November, December 1970). Infinite Possibilities (2002). Science Fiction Book Club posthumous collection containing Tunnel in the Sky, Time for the Stars, and Citizen of the Galaxy.

  Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984). World As Myth continuation of the Future History.

  Lost Legacy (1960). British, collects “Lost Legacy” and “Jerry was a Man.” From Assignment in Eternity.

  The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950). Collects: Introduction by John W. Campbell, Jr., preface by Heinlein (“It Does Not Pay a Prophet to be Too Specific”), “Life-Line,” “‘Let There Be Light,’” “The Roads Must Roll,” “Blowups Happen,” “The Man Who Sold the Moon,” and “Requiem.” See also The Past Through Tomorrow.

  The Menace from Earth (1959). Collection containing: “The Year of the Jackpot,” “By His Bootstraps,” “Columbus Was a Dope,” “The Menace from Earth,” “Sky Lift,” “Goldfish Bowl,” “Project Nightmare,” and “Water Is for Washing.” See also Off the Main Sequence.

  Methuselah’s Children (1958). Serial publication in Astounding Science-Fiction (July, August, September 1941). See also The Past Through Tomorrow (1967) and A Robert A. Heinlein Omnibus.

  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966). Serial publication in Worlds of If (December 1965, January, February, March, April 1966).

  The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (1978). Extracted from two chapters in Time Enough for Love (1973). Published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (June 1973) and Omni (August 1979).

  The Number of the Beast (1980). Serial publication, abridged, in Omni (October, November 1979).

  Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert Heinlein (2005). Ed. Andrew Wheeler. collects: Introductions by Greg Bear and Michael Cassutt, “Successful Operation,” “‘Let There Be Light,’” “‘—And He Built a Crooked House—,’” “Beyond Doubt,” “They,” “Solution Unsatisfactory,” “Universe,” “Elsewhen,” “Common Sense,” “By His Bootstraps,” “Lost Legacy,” “‘My Object All Sublime,’” “Goldfish Bowl,” “Pied Piper,” “Free Men,” “On the Slopes of Vesuvius,” “Columbus Was a Dope,” “Jerry Was a Man,” “Water Is for Washing,” “Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon,” “Gulf,” “Destination Moon,” “The Year of the Jackpot,” “Project Nightmare,” “Sky Lift,” “Tenderfoot in Space,” and “‘—All You Zombies—.’”

  Orphans of the Sky (1963 UK; 1964 US). Collects “Universe” and “Common Sense.”

  Outward Bound (2006). Collects Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Starship Troopers, and Podkayne of Mars.

  The Panki-Barsoom Number of the Beast (1977). Suppressed by Heinlein but significant sections cannibalized for The Number of the Beast. Manuscript available from online Heinlein archives, www.heinleinarchives.net.
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  The Past Through Tomorrow (1967). Omnibus. Collects The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth, Revolt in 2100, and Methuselah’s Children, with a few additional Future History stories written between 1953 and 1967.

  Podkayne of Mars (1963). Serial publication in Worlds of If (November 1962, January, March 1963). Heinlein’s original provided in Grumbles from the Grave and in some paperback editions published after 1990.

  The Puppet Masters (1951, 75,000 words). Serial publication in shortened (60,000 words) and heavily edited form in Galaxy Science Fiction (September, October, November 1951). A restored 100,000-word version was published in paperback in 1990, and reprinted in VE.

  Red Planet (1949).

  Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992). Ed. Yoji Kondo. Collects: Preface by Virginia Heinlein; Editor’s Foreword by Yoji Kondo; “Requiem”; “Tenderfoot in Space”; “Destination Moon”; “Shooting ‘Destination Moon’”; “The Witch’s Daughters”; “The Bulletin Board”; “Poor Daddy”; Guest of Honor Speech at the Third World Science Fiction Convention—Denver, 1941; Guest of Honor Speech at the XIXth World Science Fiction Convention—Seattle, 1961; Guest of Honor Speech—Rio de Janeiro Movie Festival, 1969; Guest of Honor Speech at the XXXIVth World Science Fiction Convention—Kansas City, 1976; NASA Medal for Distinguished Public Service for Robert A. Heinlein; “This I Believe”; Speeches by the Panelists: Tom Clancy, L. Sprague de Camp, Jerry Pournelle, Charles Sheffield, Jon McBride; Speeches by the Special Guests: Catherine Crook de Camp, Tetsu Yano; “RAH: A Memoir” (Poul Anderson); “Jim Baen’s RAH Story” (Jim Baen); “Remembering Robert Heinlein (Greg Bear); “Recalling Robert Anson Heinlein” (J. Hartley Bowen, Jr.); “Robert Heinlein” (Arthur C. Clarke); “Robert Heinlein” (Gordon R. Dickson); “Robert A. Heinlein and Us” (Joe Haldeman); “The Return of William Proxmire” (Larry Niven); “Rah Rah R.A.H.!” (Spider Robinson); “Robert” (Spider Robinson); “Heinlein” (Robert Silverberg); “Thank You” (Harry Turtledove); “Who Was Robert Heinlein?” (Jack Williamson); and “Farewell to the Master” (Yoji Kondo and Charles Sheffield).

  Revolt in 2100 (1953). Future History collection containing: Introduction by Henry Kuttner (“The Innocent Eye”), “‘If This Goes On—,’” “Misfit,” “Coventry,” and Afterword by Heinlein (“Concerning Stories Never Written”).

  Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Souvenir Book (2007).

  A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966). Collects The Robert A. Heinlein Omnibus and Methuselah’s Children

  The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1958). British collection combining The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth, and Beyond This Horizon. Reprinted as A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966) with more material.

  Rocket Ship Galileo (1947).

  The Rolling Stones (1952). Serial publication as “Tramp Space Ship” in Boys’ Life (September, October, November, December 1952).

  6XH (1961). See The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.

  Sixth Column (1947). Serial publication as by “Anson MacDonald” in Astounding Science-Fiction (January, February, March 1941). Slightly expanded for hardcover publication. Published in paperback as The Day After Tomorrow.

  Space Cadet (1948).

  The Star Beast (1954). Serial publication as “Star Lummox” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May, June, July 1954).

  Starman Jones (1953).

  Starship Troopers (1959). Serial publication as “Starship Soldier” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October, November 1959).

  Stranger in a Strange Land (1961).

  Take Back Your Government!: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen who Wants Democracy to Work (1992). Published as How to Be a Politician. Published with Heinlein’s title restored in V E.

  Three by Heinlein (1965). Collects combines The Puppet Masters, “Waldo,” and “Magic, Inc.” In England as A Heinlein Triad (1966).

  Time Enough for Love (1973).

  Time for the Stars (1956).

  To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987).

  To The Stars (2004). Collects Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones, and The Star Beast.

  Tomorrow, the Stars (1952). Anthology, ed. Robert A. Heinlein.

  Tramp Royale (1992).

  Tunnel in the Sky (1955).

  Universe (1951).

  The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959). Also published in early paperback as 6xH. Collection containing: “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag,” “The Man Who Traveled in Elephants,” “‘—All You Zombies—,’” “They,” “Our Fair City,” and “‘—And He Built a Crooked House—.’”

  Waldo and Magic, Inc. (1950).

  The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966). Collects: “Pandora’s Box,” “Free Men,” “Blowups Happen,” “Searchlight,” “Life-Line,” “Solution Unsatisfactory.” Ccontents incorporated in Expanded Universe (1980).

  SHORT FICTION

  “‘—All You Zombies—’.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (March 1959). Collected in The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959).

  “‘—And He Built a Crooked House—’.” Astounding Science-Fiction (February 1941). Collected in The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959).

  “A Bathroom of Her Own.” Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Beyond Doubt.” Astonishing Stories (April 1941 as by “Lyle Monroe and Elma Wentz”). Collected in Off the Main Sequence (2005).

  “The Black Pits of Luna.” The Saturday Evening Post (January 10, 1948). Future History story collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  “Blowups Happen.” Astounding Science-Fiction (September 1940). Future History story revised for collection in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950). Restored 1940 version collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “The Bulletin Board” (a Puddin’ story). Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992).

  “By His Bootstraps.” Astounding Science-Fiction (October 1941 as by “Anson MacDonald”). Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

  “Cliff and the Calories” (a Puddin’ story). Senior Prom (August 1950 as “Mother and the Balanced Diet”). Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Columbus Was a Dope.” Startling Stories (May 1947 as by “Lyle Monroe”). Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

  “Common Sense.” Astounding Science-Fiction (October 1941). Future History story, collected in Orphans of the Sky (1963).

  “Complaint.” Story in form of a thank-you letter to George Zebrowski and Thomas N. Scortia (11/30/75). Collected in V E.

  “Coventry.” Astounding Science-Fiction (July 1940). Future History story, collected in Revolt in 2100 (1953).

  “Delilah and the Space-Rigger.” Blue Book Magazine (December 1949). Future History story, collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  “Destination Moon.” Short Stories (September 1950). Novelization of film script. Collected in Destination Moon, ed. David G. Hartwell (1979).

  “Elsewhen.” Astounding Science-Fiction (September 1941 as “Elsewhere” by “Caleb Saunders”). Collected in Assignment in Eternity (1953).

  “Free Men.” The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966).

  “Gentlemen, Be Seated.” Argosy (May 1948). Future History story, collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  “The Green Hills of Earth.” The Saturday Evening Post (February 8, 1947). Future History story, collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  Opera Libretto (fragment) of The Green Hills of Earth (1971). Published in V E.

  “Goldfish Bowl.” Astounding Science-Fiction (March 1942 as by “Anson MacDonald”). Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

  “Gulf.” Astounding Science Fiction (November, December 1949). Collected in Assignment in Eternity (1953).

  “‘If This Goes On—’.” Astounding Science-Fiction (February, March 1940). Future History story, collected in Revolt in 2100 (1953).

  “‘It’s Great to be Back!’”
The Saturday Evening Post (July 26, 1947). Future History story collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  “Jerry Was a Man.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (October 1947 as “Jerry Is a Man”). Collected in Assignment in Eternity (1953).

  “‘Let There Be Light’.” Super Science Stories (May 1940 as by “Lyle Monroe”). Future History story, collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) but omitted from most subsequent issues and The Past Through Tomorrow (1967). It is re-incorporated into the Future History in VE.

  “Life-Line.” Astounding Science-Fiction (August 1939). Future History story, collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950).

  “Logic of Empire.” Astounding Science-Fiction (March 1941). Future History story, collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  “The Long Watch.” American Legion Magazine (December 1949 as “Rebellion on the Moon”). Future History story, collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  “Lost Legacy.” Super Science Stories (November 1941 as “Lost Legion” by “Lyle Monroe”). Collected in Assignment in Eternity (1953).

  “Magic, Inc.” Unknown (September 1940 as “The Devil Makes the Law”). Collected in Waldo and Magic, Inc. (1950).

  “The Man Who Sold the Moon.” Future History story, collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950).

  “The Man Who Traveled in Elephants.” Saturn (October 1957 as “The Elephant Circuit”). Collected in The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959).

  “The Menace from Earth.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1957). Future History story collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

  “Misfit.” Astounding Science-Fiction (November 1939). Future History story, collected in Revolt in 2100 (1953).

  “‘My Object All Sublime’.” Future Combined with Science Fiction (February 1942 as by “Lyle Monroe”). Collected in Off the Main Sequence, ed. Andrew Wheeler (2005).

  “No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying—.” Vertex (December 1973). Publication title of “Three Brave Men”. Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon.” Boys’ Life (April, May 1949, significantly edited). Collected in Expanded Universe (1980). Manuscript version reprinted in hardcover first edition of Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992), (but not paperback editions).