Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction / Children's / Fiction

NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.
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Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction / Children's / Fiction

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War." Everything up to then and still later were "incidents," "patrols," or "police actions." However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war... In one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind’s most alarming enemy.
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction / Children's / Fiction

On Luna - an open penal colony of the twenty-first century - a revolution is being plotted. The conspirators are a strange assortment: an engaging jack-of-all-trades, his luscious blonde girlfriend, and a lonely talking computer. Their aim - the overthrow of the hated Authority. But things don't go according to plan, and their independence may ultimately prove harder to maintain than it was to seize...
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Friday

Friday

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction / Children's / Fiction

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 vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at Boss' seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America's disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.
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Job: A Comedy of Justice

Job: A Comedy of Justice

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction / Children's / Fiction

After he firewalked in Polynesia, the world wasn't the same for Alexander Hergensheimer, now called Alec Graham. As natural accidents occurred without cease, Alex knew Armageddon and the Day of Judgement were near. Somehow he had to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of grace, and, while he was at it, save the rest of the world ....
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The Past Through Tomorrow

The Past Through Tomorrow

Robert A. Heinlein

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Here in one monumental volume are all 21 of the stories, novellas and novels making up Heinlein's famous Future History—the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work. Contents: Introduction - Damon Knight Life-Line The Roads Must Roll Blowups Happen The Man Who Sold the Moon Delilah and the Space-Rigger Space Jockey Requiem The Long Watch Gentleman, 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 Methuselah's Children
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The Door Into Summer

The Door Into Summer

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction / Children's / Fiction

Dan Davis was tricked by an unscrupulous business partner and a greedy fiancee into spending thirty years in suspended animation just when he was on the verge of a success beyond his wildest dreams. But when he awoke in the future, he discovered he had the means to travel back in time -- and get his revenge!
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Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love

Robert A. Heinlein

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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, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it.
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