Robert A. Heinlein bibliography

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The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) was productive during a writing career that spanned the last 49 years of his life and thus the Robert A. Heinlein bibliography includes 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections published during his life. Four films, two TV series, several episodes of a radio series, and a board game derive more or less directly from his work. He wrote a screenplay for one of the films. Heinlein edited an anthology of other writers' SF short stories.

Three non-fiction books and two poems have been published posthumously. One novel has been published posthumously and another, an unusual collaboration, was published in 2006. Four collections have been published posthumously.

Jack Woodford's books on writing and getting published were important to Heinlein's early career.

Heinlein's fictional works can be found in the library under PS3515.E288, or under Dewey 813.54. Known pseudonyms include Anson MacDonald (7 times), Lyle Monroe (7), John Riverside (1), Caleb Saunders (1), and Simon York (1).[1] Note that all the works originally attributed to MacDonald, Saunders, Riverside and York, and many of the works originally attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.


Contents

[edit] Novels

Novels marked with an asterisk * are generally considered juvenile novels, although some works defy easy categorization.

[edit] Early Heinlein novels

[edit] Mature Heinlein novels

[edit] Late Heinlein novels

[edit] Early Heinlein works published posthumously

[edit] Short fiction

[edit] "Future History" short fiction

[edit] Other short speculative fiction

Note that all the works initially attributed to Anson MacDonald, Caleb Saunders, John Riverside and Simon York, and many of the works attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.

At Heinlein's insistence, the three Lyle Monroe stories marked with the symbol '§' have never been reissued in a Heinlein anthology.


[edit] Other short fiction

[edit] Collections

[edit] Complete works

  • The Virginia Edition, a 46-volume hardcover collection of all of Robert Heinlein's stories, novels, and nonfiction writing, plus a selection of his personal correspondence, was announced by Meisha Merlin Publishing in April 2005; the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust (which now owns all the Heinlein copyrights) instigated the project. Meisha Merlin went out of business in May 2007 after producing six volumes: I Will Fear No Evil, Time Enough for Love, Starship Troopers, For Us, the Living, The Door into Summer, and Double Star. The Trust has since embarked on an effort to publish the edition itself, having formed the Virginia Edition Publishing Co. for this purpose [2]. As was true for the Meisha Merlin effort, individual volumes will not be sold; subscribers must purchase the entire edition.

(NOTE: In July 2007, the Heinlein Prize Trust opened the online Heinlein Archives [see link below], which enables anyone to view the manuscript versions of all Heinlein's works.)

[edit] Foreword

[edit] Nonfiction

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Spinoffs

[edit] Notes

  1. ^  http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/rahfaq.html
  2. ^  http://www.meishamerlin.com/RobertHeinleinTheVirginiaEdition.html
  3. ^  http://virginiaedition.blogspot.com/
  4. ^  Encyclopædia Britannica articles: on Paul Dirac and antimatter, and on blood chemistry. A version of the former, titled "Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You," was published in the anthology Expanded Universe, and demonstrates both Heinlein's skill as a popularizer and his lack of depth in physics; an afterword gives a normalization equation and presents it, incorrectly as being the Dirac equation.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links


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Robert A. Heinlein novels, major collections, and nonfiction (Bibliography)
Future History
& World as Myth		 R. A. Heinlein at the 1976 Worldcon
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
Nonfiction
Take Back Your Government (1946/1992) · Tramp Royale (1954/1992) · Expanded Universe (1980) · Grumbles from the Grave (1989)