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The Past Through Tomorrow, a collection of Future History fiction by Robert A. Heinlein.

• 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
• 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..." [Revised and expanded version]
• Coventry
• Misfit
• Methuselah's Children [Revised and expanded version]

Publisher’s Blurb – Jacket Flaps
Together in chronological order for the first time – twenty-one short stories, novellas and novels spanning

THE PAST THROUGH TOMORROW:

Robert A. Heinlein's "Future History" Stories

Over a quarter of a century ago, Robert A. Heinlein started to write stories about an imaginary – but highly possible – future. The stories poured forth in abundance and, because Heinlein is a meticulous craftsman who demands accuracy, he compiled a gigantic chart to keep track of his future world and the progress of its denizens.p> Heinlein’ s "future history" chart covered one entire wall of his study, and on it were recorded the dates of man's first step on the moon (1978 – see The Man Who Sold the Moon) . . . the period of Imperial Exploitation (1970-2020 – The Long Watch, The Black Pits of Luna, The Green Hills of Earth, etc.) . . . scientific achievements like weather control and manufacture of synthetic foods (2100 – "If This Goes On...") . . . first attempts at interstellar exploration (2125 – Methuselah’s Children) . . . and numerous other milestones, each of which was to be properly depicted in one or more "future history" stories.

In THE PAST THROUGH TOMORROW you’ll find a reproduction of Robert Heinlein’s master chart, plus twenty-one stories, novellas and novels that tell twenty-one separate and distinctive tales against a common backdrop. And what it all adds up to is a many-sided portrait of tomorrow – or, at least, of a tomorrow – and a bonanza of daring, original adventure by the dean of space-age fiction.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN has often denied that the stories in this book are prophecy. Yet it is apparent that some of his fictional forecasts have already come true – not literally, but symbolically. The Roads Must Roll predicts urban sprawl, and anticipates the threat of a nation-wide transport strike, for example. As for the still-unfolding future, there are guide-posts and warnings here, snuggled beneath their mantle of drama and entertainment.