The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein

The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein
First Edition cover
Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Cover artist	Jack Gaughan
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1966
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	189 pp.

The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1966.

It includes an introduction entitled "Pandora's Box" that describes some of the difficulties in making predictions about the near future. Heinlein outlines some of his predictions that he made in 1949 (published 1952) and examines how well they stood up to some 15 years of progress in 1965. The prediction was originally published in Galaxy magazine, Feb 1952, Vol. 3, No. 5, under the title "Where to?" (pp. 13–22).

Following the introduction are five short stories:

"Free Men" (written c. 1947, but first published in this collection, 1966)
"Blowups Happen" (1940)
"Searchlight" (1962)
"Life-Line" (1939)
"Solution Unsatisfactory" (1940)

In 1980, the entire contents of this collection, with an updated version of "Pandora's Box", were included in Heinlein's collection, Expanded Universe.

External links

The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Robert A. Heinlein's Future History

Collections	The Past Through Tomorrow The Man Who Sold the Moon The Green Hills of Earth Orphans of the Sky Revolt in 2100 The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein Expanded Universe

Novels	Methuselah's Children Time Enough for Love To Sail Beyond the Sunset The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress The Number of the Beast

Short stories	"Life-Line" "Let There Be Light" "The Roads Must Roll" "Blowups Happen" "The Man Who Sold the Moon" "Delilah and the Space Rigger" "Space Jockey" "Requiem" "The Long Watch" "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" "The Black Pits of Luna" "It's Great to Be Back!" "—We Also Walk Dogs" "Searchlight" "Ordeal in Space" "The Green Hills of Earth" "Logic of Empire" "The Menace from Earth" "If This Goes On—" "Coventry" "Misfit" "Universe" "Common Sense"

Related	Lazarus Long The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Robert A. Heinlein

Bibliography

Future History & World as Myth	The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) The Green Hills of Earth (1951) Revolt in 2100 (1953) Methuselah's Children (1958) Orphans of the Sky (1963) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) The Past Through Tomorrow (1967) Time Enough for Love (1973) The Number of the Beast (1980) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)

Scribner's juveniles	Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) Space Cadet (1948) Red Planet (1949) Farmer in the Sky (1950) Between Planets (1951) The Rolling Stones (1952) Starman Jones (1953) The Star Beast (1954) Tunnel in the Sky (1955) Time for the Stars (1956) Citizen of the Galaxy (1957) Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

Other novels	For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939/2003) Beyond This Horizon (1948) Sixth Column (1949) The Puppet Masters (1951) Double Star (1956) The Door into Summer (1957) Starship Troopers (1959) The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959) Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) Podkayne of Mars (1963) Glory Road (1963) Farnham's Freehold (1964) I Will Fear No Evil (1970) Friday (1982) Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984) Variable Star (1955/2006)

Non-fiction	Take Back Your Government (1946/1992) Tramp Royale (1954/1992) Expanded Universe (1980) Grumbles from the Grave (1989)

Screenplays	Destination Moon (1950)

Words created	Grok Moonbat Waldo

Related	List of characters Virginia Heinlein The Robert Heinlein Omnibus The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein Requiem The Robert Heinlein Interview and other Heinleiniana Heinlein Centennial Robert A. Heinlein Award Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization

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