The Past Through Tomorrow: 'Future History' Stories

Robert Anson Heinlein

Putnam, 1967 - Forecasting - 667 pages

Prophetic science fiction: Life-line; The Roads Must Roll; Blowups Happen; The Man Who Sold the Moon; Delilah and the Spacerigger; 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 ... "; Conventry; Misfit; and Methuselah's Children.

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(Original Review, 1980-10-13) People have complained about roads as conveyor belts as represented in Heinlein's THE ROADS MUST ROLL as being an inefficient means of transportation because of a number ...

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This is an anthology of Heinlein short stories. Most were written between 1939 and 1949 and they are rather dated by modern standards. The earlier stories are rather simple in plot and the emphasis on ...

Contents

• I: 15
• II: 30
• III: 60

About the author

Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre.

He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future.

Robert A. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. By the time hed died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Past Through Tomorrow: 'Future History' Stories; Berkley medallion book : Science fiction; Volume 2738 of Berkley medallion book; Future history series, Robert Anson Heinlein
• Author: Robert Anson Heinlein
• Edition: 5
• Publisher: Putnam, 1967
• ISBN: 0425027384, 9780425027387
• Length: 667 pages