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Robert A Heinlein
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet 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 his own "psi" powers--including...
Author
Series
SF masterworks volume 72
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of Artemis--The visionary tour de force from "one of the grand masters of science fiction" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science fiction to become an undisputed classic--and a touchstone for the philosophy of personal responsibility and political freedom. A revolution on a lunar penal colony--aided by a self-aware supercomputer--provides...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Robert A. Heinlein has written some of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time, including the beloved classic Stranger in a Strange Land. Now, in The Cat Who Walks through Walls, he creates his most compelling character ever: Dr. Richard Ames, ex-military man, sometime writer, and unfortunate victim of mistaken identity.
When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Ames is thrown headfirst
...4) Double star
Author
Publisher
Caezik Notables, an imprint of Arc Manor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Caezik Notables edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe was - as usual - in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake - failure to pull off the act could...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In one of Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit in a future world is sent through the toughest boot camp in the Universe to join the Terran Mobile Infantry in battle against mankind's most alarming enemy.
Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Reserve on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper. In bootcamp he learns how to become a soldier, but it is in
...6) Red planet
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Del Rey Books Trade Paperback ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 255 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young colonist on Mars befriends a strange round creature called Willis who gets him into trouble when he goes away to school, but whose presence and friendship finally enable the colonials to negotiate a treaty with the Martians.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1964, c1963]
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Physical Desc
187 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lost in SpaceHugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was just allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the universe, and as long as the sacred Converter was fed, the lights would continue to glow,...
Author
Publisher
Science Fiction Book Club
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
586 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Have space suit--will travel: Kip, a high school senior, wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest, takes a last walk in it before cashing it in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey.
Starship troopers: With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.
PodKayne...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xvii, 263 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After crashing his car in 1939, Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes.
11) Variable star
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of American SF writers, also wrote fantasy fiction throughout his long career, but especially in the early 1940s. His fantasies were convincingly set in the real world, particularly those published in the famous magazine Unknown Worlds, including such stories as "Magic, Inc.," "They -, '" and "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag." Now all of Heinlein's best fantasy short stories, most of them long novellas, have...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the dashing Colonel Colin Campbell, a philosopher/soldier/rogue, on a whirlwind adventure from orbiting luxury condos to the Wild West free-enterprise zones of the Moon to the daydream fantasy worlds of past and future.
15) Space cadet
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Tor ed.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular Patrol vessel and encounters danger on Venus.
16) Friday
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
c1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful interplanetary agent, a glorious product of genetic engineering, operates from and over a near-future Earth.
19) A Heinlein trio
Author
Publisher
Nelson Doubleday, Inc
Pub. Date
c1957
Physical Desc
502 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
