Expanded Universe:
The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein
by Robert A. Heinlein
First Edition 1980
Grosset & Dunlap
New York
ISBN 0448119161
Hardback in dust jacket
Cover illustrator unknown
582 pages
Price: $12.95
Notes
Expanded Universe, a collection of short fiction and essays by Robert A. Heinlein.
- Life-Line
- Successful Operation
- Blowups Happen
- Solution Unsatisfactory
- The Last Days of the United States [essay]
- How to Be a Survivor [essay]
- Pie from the Sky [essay]
- 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 [essay]
- Where To? [essay]
- Cliff and the Calories
- Ray Guns and Rocket Ships [essay]
- The Third Millennium Opens [essay]
- Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry? [essay]
- "Pravda" Means "Truth" [essay]
- Inside Intourist [essay]
- Searchlight
- The Pragmatics of Patriotism [essay]
- Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You [essay]
- Larger Than Life: A Memoir in Tribute to Dr. Edward E. Smith [essay]
- Spinoff [essay]
- The Happy Days Ahead [essay]
The image opposite and the blurb below are from the first printing of the 1981 Ace Books paperback edition, ISBN 0441218830. Cover illustrator unknown.
Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
NOT JUST SCIENCE FICTION...
THIS IS THE COMPLETE WORLDS OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
PLUS 7 NEVER-BEFORE-COLLECTED STORIES
PLUS 14 NEVER-BEFORE-COLLECTED ARTICLES
PLUS PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED COMMENTARIES ON ALL OF THE ABOVE
THAT EQUALS
The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, on subjects ranging from Crime and Punishment to the Love Life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophesy to Destiny; from Geopolitic to Post-Holocaust America; from the Nature of Courage to the Nature of Reality; it’s all here and it’s all great–straight from the mind of the finest science fiction writer of them all. But beware: after reading it, you too will occupy an EXPANDED UNIVERSE |
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