OPUS NUMBER: [G.014]
NOTES:
|
| º
| Lyle Monroe was used several times as an RAH pseudonym.
James Gifford's book contains some speculation on the identity of Elma Wentz.
|
PUBLICATION
|
| -----
| First publication (pseudonym Lyle Monroe and Elma Wentz):
Astonishing Stories (April 1941)
|
| Beyond the End of Time, ed. Frederick Pohl, Permabooks
(1952 PB)
|
| -----
| Political Science Fiction, ed. Martin H. Greenberg &
Patricia S. Warrick, Prentice-Hall (1974)
|
|
| Election Day 2084, ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin
H. Greenberg, Prometheus (1984)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
"They"
A nameless man in an asylum comes to some fanciful--but
logical!--conclusions about Glaroon and his other keepers.
different as merchandise on a Venerian auction block.
OPUS NUMBER: [G.021]
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication: Unknown (April 1941)
|
| -----
| Unknown United Kingdom (Winter 1949)
|
|
| World of Wonder, ed. Fletcher Pratt, Twayne (1951)
|
|
| Science Fiction Terror Tales, ed. Groff Conklin, Gnome
(1955 PB)
|
| -----
| Terror in the Modern Vein, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Hanover
House (1955)
|
|
| The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (aka 6xH) (1959)
|
| -----
| Terror in the Modern Vein, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Digit
Press (1961)
|
|
| The Dark Side, ed. Damon Knight, Doubleday (1965)
|
|
| Science Fiction Terror Tales, ed. Groff Conklin, Reprint by
Pocket Books
(1969 PB)
|
|
| The Others, ed. Terry Carr, Fawcett Gold Medal (1969)
|
| -----
| Science Fiction: The Future, ed. Dick Allen, HBJ (1971)
|
| -----
| Above the Human Landscape,
ed. Willis E. McNelly & Leon
E. Stover, Goodyear Publishing (1972)
|
| -----
| Rod Serling's Other Worlds, ed. Rod Serling, Bantam (1978)
|
| -----
| Philosophy and Science Fiction, ed. Michael Philips,
Prometheus (1984)
|
| -----
| PsiFi: Psychological Theories and Science Fiction,
ed. Jim
Ridgway & Michele Benjamin,
The British Psychological Society
(1987)
|
| -----
| Unknown Worlds, ed. Stanley Schmidt & Martin
H. Greenberg, Galahad Books (1988)
|
|
| Foundations of Fear, ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor (1992)
|
| -----
| Shadows of Fear (Foundations of Fear, Volume 1), ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor (1994)
|
|
| Between Time and Terror,
ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan
Dziemianowicx & Martin H. Greenberg,
Penguin/Roc (1995)
|
|
| The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
"Universe"
Hugh Hoyand's universe is a multi-generation spaceship. Most of
the population has long since forgotten about anything
outside the ship, but Hugh is captured by the mutie Joe-Jim, who
remembers the way to the larger universe.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.025a] | Astounding version.
| | [G.025b] | Slight revision for Orphans of the Sky.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
|
The second part of the story was later written and
published ("Common Sense"), and the
two parts together form Orphans of the
Sky.
|
| º
|
The future history chart shows the ship launched shortly after
2100, and the Vanguard's log shows that the
original mutiny was in 2172. In The Past Through
Tomorrow,
the chart makes it look as if Universe and Common Sense
were also in the 2100s,
but the complete chart (for example, in
The Man Who Sold the Moon) shows
the time of these stories clearly around 2600.
|
| º
|
The story has the first mention of Rhysling, "the blind singer of
the spaceways" from the distant past (early 21st century).
Heinlein later writes of Rhysling in The Green Hills
of Earth".
|
PUBLICATION:
|
|
| First publication: Astounding Science Fiction (May 1941)
|
|
| Best of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, Crown (1946).
The 1946 edition has red cloth under the
dust jacket.
|
|
| Reprinted as: 64 page Dell 10¢ book series (Number 36, 1951)
|
|
| Best of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, Bonanza (1963 TPB)
|
|
| Orphans of the Sky (1963)
|
|
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A,
ed. Ben Bova, Doubleday (1973)
|
|
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A,
ed. Ben Bova, Doubleday (1973). SFBC edition has untrimmed edges and
the words "Book
Club Edition" on the inside front dust jacket.
|
| -----
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 3,
ed. Ben Bova, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-01738-4 (1974 UK). I think this
is the second part of Volume 2A in the US, as with The Novellas:
Book 2.
|
|
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A,
ed. Ben Bova, Avon ISBN 0-380-00038-5 (1974 PB)
|
|
| Science Fiction Hall of Fame: The Novellas Book 2,
ed. Ben Bova, Sphere, ISBN 0-7221-1802-3 (1975 UK PB). Contains second part of Volume 2A.
|
|
| The Golden Age of Science Fiction (reprint of Best of
Science Fiction), ed. Groff Conklin, Bonanza, ISBN 0-517-33486-0 (1980)
|
|
| Silent Thunder/Universe, Tor Science Fiction Double #35,
ISBN 0-812-50265-5 (1991 PB)
|
| -----
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A,
ed. Ben Bova, Easton Press (2001)
|
|
| The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A,
ed. Ben Bova, Tor, ISBN 0-7653-0534-8 (2004)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
OTHER MEDIA:
|
| Old-Time Radio broadcast on Dimension X
(November 26, 1950 and August 2, 1951)
|
|
| Old-Time Radio broadcast on X-Minus-1 (May 15, 1955)
|
"Solution Unsatisfactory"
John DeFries starts as a civilian campaign manager, but he ends up as
Captain John DeFries, observer and then participant in solving the
problem of radioactive warfare.
OPUS NUMBER: [G.026]
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication (pseudonym Anson MacDonald): Astounding Science Fiction (May 1941)
|
|
| The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
|
|
| Future Tense, ed. Richard Curtis, Dell (1968 PB)
|
|
| Expanded Universe (1980)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
OTHER MEDIA:
|
|
| Solution Unsatisfactory,
Atlanta Radio Theater Company (2003). Adaptation.
|
| Read "Solution Unsatisfactory" online at The
Expanded Universe (July 4, 2006)
|
"'--We Also Walk Dogs'"
Do you want somebody murdered? (Then don't call Grace Cormet at
General Services) But for any other job dial HURRY-UP--It
pays!
P.S. We also defy gravity.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.027] | Short story.
| | [G.117] | Unfilmed teleplay adaptation of the story written circa
1953.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
|
| First publication (pseudonym Anson MacDonald): Astounding Science Fiction (July 1941)
|
|
| The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
|
|
| The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1958)
|
|
| Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, ed. Sam Moskowitz,
World (1965)
|
| -----
| The Vortex Blasters, ed. Sam Moskowitz, MacFadden-Bartell (1965)
|
| -----
| A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966)
|
|
| The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
|
| -----
| Ordeal in Space (1989)
|
Methuselah's Children
Lazurus Long leads his long-lived kin away from persecution.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.028a] | Astounding version.
| | [G.028b] | Significant revision for book publication.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
| Original working title: "While the Evil Days Come Not".
|
SERIALIZATION [G.028a] first
publication in Astounding
Science Fiction:
|
|
| Part I (July 1941)
|
|
| Part II (August 1941)
|
|
| Part III (September 1941)
|
BOOK PUBLICATION
|
|
| Gnome Press
(1958).
First edition.
|
|
| Signet S1752
(1960 PB).
First paperback edition.
|
|
| Signet D2191
(1962 PB).
|
| -----
| Readers Union (1964 UK). UK SFBC #89.
|
|
| Signet D2621
(1965 PB).
Titled The Day after Tomorrow. This is the third US printing,
but probably the first Canadian printing at the same time with the
same Signet number.
|
|
| Pan
(1966)
|
|
| In The Past Through Tomorrow
(1967)
|
|
| Signet T4226
(Circa 1970 PB). Gene Szafan cover with Signet symbol top left.
Undated early 1970s edition with Signet symbol on top left.
|
|
| NEL, ISBN 0-450-00914-9
(1971 UK PB). I'm uncertain whether this is the 1971 cover.
|
| -----
| Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-01946-8
(1975 UK)
|
| -----
| Signet W7591
(Undated 1970s PB). Gene Szafan cover with Signet symbol on top right.
|
|
| Signet Y6382
(Undated 1970s PB). Gene Szafan cover with Signet symbol on top right.
|
|
| Signet, ISBN 0-451-09083-7
(1980 PB).
|
|
| Signet E9875, ISBN 0-451-09875-7
(Circa 1980 PB).
|
|
| Amereon, ISBN 0-88411-883-5
(1985).
No dust cover.
ISBN might not be printed in the book.
An unauthorized edition from Amereon (see the
June 2007
Heinlein Society Newsletter).
|
|
| Baen, ISBN 0-671-65597-3
(1986 PB)
|
|
| NEL, ISBN 0-45000914-9
(1986 UK PB)
|
|
| Baen
(1991).
I think this is SFBC edition only, with the SFBC number on the back dust jacket.
|
|
| Baen, ISBN 0-671-57780-8
(1998 PB).
Double book with Revolt In 2011.
|
| -----
| Baen, ISBN 0-671-71806-1
(1999). This ISBN is sometimes listed as a 1999 Baen edition,
but I think it was an ISBN used by the publisher for a package or
rebound hardcover that
included the 1998 Baen edition and a book Kissing Through a Pane of Glass
by Peter Michael Rosenberg.
|
|
| BT Bound, ISBN 0-613-17476-3
(1999).
Double book with Revolt In 2011.
The paperback rebound in hardcover for libraries.
|
|
| Robert Hale, ISBN 0-7090-6799-2
(2002 UK)
|
OTHER MEDIA:
|
| -----
| BBC Radio 7 Broadcast abridged by Bert Coules and read by Paul
Birchard
(July 9-16, 2007)
|
"Elsewhere" (aka "Elsewhen")
Professor Arthur Frost has a small but willing class of students who
explore elsewhere and elsewhen.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.008a] | Heinlein's original story, including Martha Ross.
| | [G.008b] | Astounding publication of "Elsewhere" (Martha Ross deleted).
| | [G.008c] | Martha restored and slight editing for "Elsewhen" in Assignment in Eternity.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
|
| First publication (pseudonym Caleb Saunders):
Astounding
Science Fiction (September 1941) [G.008b]
|
|
| Assignment in Eternity (1953) [G.008c]
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
"By His Bootstraps" (aka "The Time Gate")
Bob Wilson, Ph.D. student, throws himself 30,000 years into the
future, where he tries to figure out what began this whole adventure.
OPUS NUMBER: [G.026]
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication (pseudonym Anson MacDonald): Astounding
Science Fiction (October 1941)
|
|
| Adventures in Time and Space (psuedonym Anson MacDonald),
ed. Raymond J. Healy &
Francis McComas, Random House (1946)
|
| -----
| Giant Anthology of Science Fiction, ed. Leo Margulies
& Oscar J. Friend, Merlin Press (1954)
|
| -----
| Race to the Stars, ed. Leo Margulies & Oscar J. Friend,
Crest (1958). Titled "The Time Gate".
|
|
| The Menace from Earth (1959)
|
| -----
| Spectrum, ed. Kingsley Amis & Robert Conquest,
Harcourt, Brace & World (1962)
|
| -----
| Spectrum, ed. Kingsley Amis & Robert Conquest,
Berkley (1963 PB)
|
| -----
| Classic Science Fiction, ed. Terry Carr, Harper & Row (1978)
|
| -----
| The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short
Novels,
ed. Robert Silverberg &
Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor
House (1980)
|
|
| Worlds Imagined, ed. Robert Silverberg & Martin
H. Greenberg, Avenel (1989)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
OTHER MEDIA
|
| -----
| Old-Time Radio broadcast on National Theatre (1984)
|
"Common Sense"
Common sense says that The Ship is the entire universe, complete and
immovable for all time and space. Hugh Hoyland and Joe-Jim show
otherwise, but The Crew won't listen, leaving only one improbable
route to the truth.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.030a] | Astounding version.
| | [G.030b] | Slight revision for Orphans of the Sky.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
|
In Grumbles from the Grave,
Virginia Heinlein lists the title as a single word, "Commonsense,"
but I'm unsure whether that version of the title was ever used.
The two-word title is more likely as a nod to Thomas Paine.
|
| º
|
This is Part II of the story that began in
"Universe."
|
PUBLICATION:
|
|
| First publication: Astounding Science Fiction (October 1941)
|
|
| Orphans of the Sky (1963)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
"Lost Legion" (aka "Lost Legacy")
Phil Huxley, Pete Coburn and Joan Freeman discover human powers that
have been lost since the time of Mu and Atlantis, but they meet
unexpected resistance when they try to reveal the discovery to all humanity.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.013a] | Heinlein's original manuscript.
| | [G.013b] | Editor changed Ambrose Bierce to Ambrose James.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
|
Heinlein's original title,
"Lost Legacy", was changed to "Lost Legion" for only the
Super Science publication.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
| -----
| First publication (pseudonym Lyle Monroe): Super Science Stories (November 1941)
|
| -----
| Astonishing Stories Canada (March 1942)
|
|
| In some editions of Assignment in Eternity (1953)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
1942
- "'My Object All Sublime'"
-
Cleve Carter stumbles upon an invisible man with his own aromatic brand of road rage; later it becomes clear
that invisibility has other adventuresome uses, too.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.009a] | Heinlein's original manuscript.
| | [G.009b] | Shortened for Future.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
| An amusing biographical note from the back of the 2/42
Future:
Lyle Monroe is a newish stf writer, whom we've had the good fortune to
meet. Or perhaps we should say: the Lyle Monroes. Seeing Lyle without
his lady is virtually unthinkable, and the Monroes maintain that they
are perfect schizophreniacs, the one being entirely capable of
thinking, acting, and speaking for the other without any disharmony
then or thereafter resulting. To get down to the point, Monroe's
appeared a number of times in our contemporaries, and we felt 'twas
time we had one of his tales. So, here's hoping you like "My Object All
Sublime." And Damon Knight has done an adequate drawing for the tale,
we think.
|
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication: Future (February 1942)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
- "Goldfish Bowl"
-
Dr. Jacobson Graves has a theory about the recent unusual phenomena,
such as the up-and-down water spouts near Hawaii. His colleague,
Bill Eisenberg, is dubious, but both of them will soon be sucked into
the truth.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.032a] | Heinlein's original manuscript.
| | [G.032b] | Rewritten for publication at Campbell's request.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
PUBLICATION:
|
| First publication [G.032a] (pseudonym Anson MacDonald):
Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942)
|
|
| The Menace from Earth (1959)
|
| -----
| Apeman, Spaceman, ed. Leon E. Stover & Harry Harrison, Doubleday (1968)
|
|
| First Contact, ed. Damon Knight, Pinnacle (1971 PB)
|
|
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...,
ed. Bonnie
L. Heintz, Frank Herbert,
Donald A. Joos & Jane Agorn, Holt
Rinehart & Winston (1974)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
- "Pied Piper"
-
The political and military leaders of Dr. Groot's country have
beseeched him to turn his brilliance to the war effort. He agrees, but
only with a condition that will bring a permanent end to the war,
neither side victorious.
PUBLICATION
|
| -----
| First publication (pseudonym Lyle Monroe): Astonishing Stories (March 1942)
|
| -----
| Astonishing Stories Canada (May 1942)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
- Beyond This Horizon
-
Felix Hamilton (or, Hamilton Felix, as he would say) lives in a future
utopia where he wonders whether the universe has any
meaning beyond his day-to-day life where might makes right.
OPUS NUMBERS:
OPUS NUMBERS: |
SERIALIZATION [G.033b] first
publication in Astounding
Science
Fiction (pseudonym Anson MacDonald):
|
|
| Part I (April 1942)
|
|
| Part II (May 1942)
|
BOOK PUBLICATION [G.033a]
|
|
| Fantasy Press (1948). First edition.
|
|
| Grosset
& Dunlap (1948). First UK edition.
|
|
| Appeared as one of two novels in:
Two Complete Science-Adventure Books, Number 7,
Wings Publishing (Winter 1952). The other novel in this pulp is
The Magellanics by Alfred Coppel.
|
|
| Signet S1891 (1960 PB). First paperback edition.
|
|
| Signet D2539 (1964 PB)
|
| -----
| In A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966)
|
|
| Panther Science Fiction (1967 UK PB)
|
| -----
| Signet P3907 (Circa 1970 PB).
Gene Szafan cover with Signet symbol on top left.
|
|
| Signet T4??? (Circa 1970 PB).
Gene Szafan cover with Signet symbol on top left.
|
|
| Signet Q5695 (Undated 1970s PB).
Gene Szafan cover with Signet symbol on top right.
|
| -----
| Signet P6392 (Undated 1970s PB).
Gene Szafan cover with Signet symbol on top left.
|
|
| Signet W7599 (Undated 1970s PB).
Gene Szafan cover with Signet symbol on top right.
|
|
| Signet (1975 PB)
|
|
| Panther Science Fiction, ISBN 0-586-02348-8 (1975 UK PB)
|
|
| Signet E8966, ISBN 0-451-08966-9 (1979 PB)
|
| -----
| Signet E9833, ISBN 0-451-09833-1 (198x PB)
|
| -----
| The Ultramarine Publishing Company, ISBN 0-89366-282-8 (1981)
|
|
| The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series, ISBN 0-8398-2672-9 (1981)
|
| -----
| Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-450-06022-5 (1983
UK)
|
|
| NEL, ISBN 0-450-03289-2 (1985
UK PB)
|
| -----
| Signet, ISBN 0-451-15616-1 (1989 PB)
|
|
| RoC, ISBN 0-451-16676-0
(1997 PB)
|
|
| First Edition Library. Published as an exact duplicate of the 1948
Fantasy Press edition. (199x)
|
|
| Baen, ISBN 0-671-31836-5 (2001)
|
|
| Baen, ISBN 0-7434-3561-3 (2002 PB)
|
- "Waldo"
-
Gramps Schneider seems to be Heinlein's first Jedi master.
"There--that betters you? Now you rest while I some coffee make," he
says to Waldo Forthingwaite-Jones. Waldo may be a genius who lives a
hermit's life in orbit, but it will take Schneider's philosophy to
solve several of his problems. "Reach out for the power, my son. Feel
it in your fingers."
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.035a] | As published in Astounding.
| | [G.035b] | Slight revisions for postwar collections, including the
new mention of Uranium 235.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
|
| First publication (pseudonym Anson MacDonald): Astounding Science Fiction,
August 1942 [G.035a]
|
|
| Waldo and Magic,
Inc. (1950) [G.035b]
|
| -----
| A Treasury of Great Science Fiction Volume
1, ed. Anthony Boucher, Doubleday (1959)
|
|
| Three by
Heinlein (1965)
|
|
| The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
|
- "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"
-
Teddy and Cynthia Randall are husband and wife, best friends, and
partners in the investigation of what Jonathan Hoag does during the daytime.
OPUS NUMBER: [G.036]
PUBLICATION
|
| -----
| First publication (pseudonym John Riverside): Unknown Worlds (October 1942)
|
|
| Unknown Worlds UK Edition (pseudonym John Riverside) (Summer 1946)
|
|
| The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959)
|
|
| The Best of Robert Heinlein
(1973)
|
|
| The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
|
1947
- "The Green Hills of Earth"
-
Since the accident that blinded him, "Noisy" Rhysling is a bard who
sings his way from port to port throughout the solar system. But
he hasn't forgotten the skills of controlling a runaway radioactive pile.
OPUS NUMBER: [G.056]
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication: Saturday Evening Post (February 8, 1947)
|
|
| Post Stories 1947, Random House (1947)
|
|
| Strange Ports of Call, ed. August Derleth, Pellegrini
Cudahy (1948)
|
|
| Invasion from Mars, ed. Orson Welles, Dell 'Mapback" #305
(1949 PB)
|
|
| My Best Science Fiction Story, ed. Leo Margulies &
Oscar J. Friend, Merlin Press (1949)
|
|
| The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
|
|
| New Horizons Through Reading and Literature Book 2, Laidlaw Bros. (1958)
|
| -----
| The Robert
Heinlein Omnibus (1958)
|
|
| The Saturday Evening Post Reader of Fantasy and
Science Fiction, Doubleday (1963 PB)
|
| -----
| A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966)
|
|
| The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
|
| -----
| Science Fiction: The Future, ed. Dick Allen, HBJ (1971)
|
| -----
| Speculations, ed. Thomas E. Sanders, Glencoe Press (1973)
|
|
| The Best of Robert Heinlein
(1973)
|
| -----
| Looking Back on Tomorrow, ed. John Osborne & David
Paskow, Addison-Wesley (1974)
|
| -----
| In Dreams Awake, ed. Leslie A. Fiedler, Dell (1975)
|
|
| Fantasy Voyages, Great
Science Fiction from the Saturday Evening Post, Curtis
Publising Co. (1979)
|
|
| The World Treasury of Science Fiction, ed. David
G. Hartwell, Little Brown (1989). Also SFBC.
|
OTHER MEDIA
|
| -----
| TV play adapted by Raphael Hayes for Out There, Season 1,
Episode 6 (December
2, 1951)
|
|
| Old-Time Radio broadcast on Dimension X (June 10, 1950)
|
|
| Old-Time Radio broadcast on X Minus One (July 7, 1955)
|
| -----
| Old-Time Radio broadcast on CBS Radio Workshop (July 21, 1957)
|
|
|
The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey, one cassette or
one LP,
Caedmon (1977 LP) and (1979 Cassette)
|
| -----
| The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey,
Random House Audio, ISBN 0871881160 (1985). Read by Colin Fox.
|
| -----
| The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey,
Random House Audio, ISBN 0394299906 (1987)
|
|
| The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey,
Waldentapes (19xx)
|
|
| William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy read Four Science Fiction
Classics,
Caedmon Audio Books (1994)
|
| -----
| Read by Kathleen Chalfant on NPR's Selected Shorts
(November 27 to December 3, 1999). Repeated on June 2-8,
2001.
|
| -----
| Galaxyonline.com (www.galaxymagazine.com/Heinlein_Robert/index.html
(2001)
|
| -----
| BBC Radio 7 Broadcast read by Adam Sims (July 7, 2007)
|
- "Space Jockey"
-
Jake Pemberton is a pilot on the route from circum terra to lunar
orbit, usually a calm job until a bigwig's young brat gets loose in
the control room.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.057] | Short story.
| | [G.108] | Unfilmed teleplay adaptation of the story written circa 1953.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
| -----
| First publication: Saturday Evening Post (April 26, 1947)
|
|
| The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
|
|
| The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
|
|
| Life Line (1993)
|
OTHER MEDIA:
|
| -----
| The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey,
Random House Audio, ISBN 0871881160 (1985)
|
| -----
| The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey,
Random House Audio, ISBN 0394299906 (1987)
|
|
| The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey,
Waldentapes (19xx)
|
- "Columbus Was a Dope"
-
Professor Appleby is the Chief Engineer of the first starship
Pegasus, but his bar-drinking buddies can't understand why
anyone would actually want to go to the stars.
OPUS NUMBER: [G.053]
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication (pseudonym Lyle Monroe): Startling Stories (May 1947)
|
|
| The Menace from Earth (1959)
|
| -----
| Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales, ed. Isaac Asimov &
Groff Conklin, Collier Books (1963)
|
| -----
| The Future Makers, ed. Peter Haining, Sidgwick &
Jackson (1968)
|
|
| The Future Makers, ed. Peter Haining, NEL (1969 PB)
|
| -----
| Science Fiction Special 5, Sidgwick & Jackson (1971)
|
|
| The Future Makers, ed. Peter Haining,
Belmont Tower (1974 PB)
|
|
| Science Fiction: The Great Years, Volume II, ed. Carol Pohl
& Frederick Pohl, Ace (1976)
|
| -----
| Science Fiction, ed. Herbert Kaußen & Rudi Renné
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
- "They Do It with Mirrors"
-
Edison Hill comes upon a murder in an artistic bar, but it appears
that none of the suspects could have done the foul deed.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.042a] | Heinlein's original story.
| | [G.042b] | Popular Detective publication, with censorship of Hazel
running around nude in her apartment.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
| -----
| First publication (pseudonym Simon York): Popular Detective
(May 1947)
[G.042b]
|
|
| Expanded Universe (1980) [G.042a]
|
- "'It's Great to Be Back!'"
-
Allan and Jo MacRae can't wait to get back to home on Earth.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.058] | Short story.
| | [G.107] | Unfilmed teleplay adaptation of the story written circa 1953.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
| -----
| First publication: Saturday Evening Post (July 26, 1947)
|
| -----
| A Treasury of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, Crown
(1948)
|
|
| The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
|
|
| A Treasury of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, Berkley
(1957)
|
|
| The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1958)
|
|
| A Treasury of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, Berkley
(1965)
|
| -----
| A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966)
|
| -----
| Cities of Wonder, ed. Damon Knight, Doubleday (1966)
|
|
| The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
|
|
| Cities of Wonder, ed. Damon Knight, Macfadden-Bartell (1971)
|
| -----
| Science Fiction of the 40's,
ed. Frederick Pohl, Martin
H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, Avon (1978)
|
| -----
| Ordeal in Space (1989)
|
|
| The Ascent of Wonder, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn
Cramer, Tor (1994)
|
- "Jerry Is a Man" (aka "Jerry Was a Man")
-
Jerry (a genetically altered anthropoid) and Napolean (a miniature
writing elephant with definite musical tastes) come to live with
Mrs. Martha van Vogel.
NOTES:
|
| º
| The Wonder Stories title,
"Jerry Is a Man", was changed to "Jerry Was a Man"
for
subsequent publication. Both phrases appear in the story.
|
| º
| I'm amazed that this story isn't more widely published.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
|
| First publication: Thrilling Wonder Stories (October 1947)
|
|
| Wonder Story Annual (1953)
|
|
| In some editions of
Assignment in Eternity (1953)
|
| -----
| Lost Legacy (1960)
|
|
| The SFWA Grand Masters Volume 1, ed. Frederik Pohl (2000)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
OTHER MEDIA
|
| -----
| TV play adapted by Michael Tolkin for ABC TV's Masters of Science Fiction, Season 1,
Episode 3 (August
18, 2007)
|
- "Water Is for Washing"
-
Eight-year-old Laura and her classmate Tommy put their trust in a
nameless driver and a wandering tramp during an earthquake and
subsequent problems.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.059a] | Heinlein's original story.
| | [G.059b] | Argosy publication, with Heinlein's concluding
paragraphs removed.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
| -----
| First publication: Argosy (November 1947) [G.059b]
|
|
| The Menace from Earth (1950) [G.059b]
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
- Rocket Ship Galileo
-
Art Mueller's uncle, Don Cargraves, has a wild idea to take
18-year-old Art to the moon along with Art's rocket buddies, Ross
Jenkins and Maurice Abrams. Gee whillickers!
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.048a] | Heinlein's original story.
| | [G.048b] | Edited by the publisher.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
| This novel formed the basis of the
1950 movie, "Destination Moon". The
novella "Destination Moon" was
written later at the request of an editor to match the movie.
|
BOOK PUBLICATION
|
|
|
Scribner's (1947). First edition.
|
|
| Ace (1971 PB). I'm uncertain whether there was an earlier 1963 paperback.
|
|
| NEL, ISBN 0-450-00695-6 (1971 UK PB).
Titled Rocketship Galileo.
|
|
| Hudson River (1976). Scribner's Hudson River reprint series.
|
|
| Del Rey #26068 (1977 PB)
|
|
| A paperback (the 1977?) is part of the Ballantine boxed set The
Future World of Robert A. Heinlein, ISBN
0-345-27920-4.
|
|
| NEL, ISBN 0-450-00695-6 (1987 UK PB)
|
|
| In Four Frontiers, SFBC (2005)
|
EXCERPTS
|
| -----
| Excerpt titled "Destination Moon" in:
Space Movies,
ed. Peter
Haining, Severn House (1995).
The
Locus Index
indicates that this excerpt differs from the
"Destination Moon" novella.
|
| -----
| The above excerpt also appeared in: Vintage Science
Fiction, ed. Peter Haining, Carroll & Graf (1999)
|
1948
- "The Black Pits of Luna"
-
Dick Logan is on a family vacation on the moon, a vacation that would
be more pleasant without that runt of a little brother.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.061a] | Published short story.
| | [G.061b] | Version created for a juvenile anthology (1961), but so heavily
edited that Heinlein refused to allow its publication.
| | [G.109] | Unfilmed teleplay adaptation of the story written circa 1953.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
| First person narrator: Dick Logan.
|
| º
| "I liked our guide. He looked like Tom Jeremy in The Space Troopers."
|
PUBLICATION:
|
|
| First publication: Saturday Evening Post (January 10, 1948) [G.0611]
|
| -----
| Possible Worlds of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin,
Vanguard (1951) [G.061a]
|
|
| The Green Hills of
Earth (1951) [G.061a]
|
| -----
| Science Fiction and Reader's Guide,
ed. Marjorie Barrows,
Spencer (1954).
Number 16 in the Children's Hour reader
series. [G.061a]
|
| -----
| Stories of Scientific Imagination, ed. Joseph Gallant, Oxford
Book Co. (1954) [G.061a]
|
| -----
| The Robert
Heinlein Omnibus (1958) [G.061a]
|
| -----
| A Robert Heinlein
Omnibus (1966) [G.061a]
|
|
| The Past Through
Tomorrow (1967) [G.061a]
|
|
| Tomorrow's Worlds, ed. Robert Silverberg, Meredith (1969 PB) [G.061a]
|
| -----
| Ordeal in Space (1989)
|
- "Gentlemen, Be Seated"
-
Reporter Jack Arnold has to use his head, and other body parts,
in pursuit of an interesting story on the moon.
OPUS NUMBER: [G.065]
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication: Argosy (May 1948)
|
|
| Shot in the Dark, ed. Judith Merril, Bantam (1950 PB)
|
|
| The Green Hills of
Earth (1951)
|
|
| Famous Fantastic Mysteries (June 1952)
|
| -----
| The Robert
Heinlein Omnibus (1958)
|
| -----
| A Robert Heinlein
Omnibus (1966)
|
|
| The Past Through
Tomorrow (1967)
|
|
| Argosy Special Bicentenial Edition: The Best of Argosy's 94
Years Popular Publications (1976)
|
|
| First Step Outward, ed. Robert Hoskins, Dell (1981 PB)
|
|
| Life Line (1993)
|
OTHER MEDIA:
|
|
|
The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey, one cassette or
one LP,
Caedmon (1977 LP) and (1979 Cassette)
|
- "Ordeal in Space"
-
After an ordeal in space, Will "Saunders" Cole has an understandable
fear of falling, but now he has some motivation to overcome that fear.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.069] | Short story.
| | [G.111] | Unfilmed teleplay adaptation of the story written circa 1953.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
|
Heinlein's original title was "Broken Wings," a version that was
rejected by Saturday Evening Post.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
| -----
| First publication: Town and Country (May 1948)
|
|
| The Green Hills of
Earth (1951)
|
| -----
| The Robert
Heinlein Omnibus (1958)
|
| -----
| A Robert Heinlein
Omnibus (1966)
|
|
| The Past Through
Tomorrow (1967)
|
|
| Worlds to Come, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row (1967)
|
|
| Out of This World 7, ed. Amabel Williams-Ellis & Mably
Owen, Blackie (1968)
|
| -----
| Ordeal in Space (1989)
|
|
| Cats in Space, ed. Bill Fawcett, Baen (1992 PB)
|
OTHER MEDIA:
|
| -----
| Television adaptation by Theodore Sturgeon for
CBS Stage 14 (1951)
|
| -----
| TV play adapted by Theodore Sturgeon for Out There, Season 1,
Episode 2 (November
4, 1951)
|
| -----
| BBC Radio 7 Broadcast read by Adam Sims (July 13, 2007)
|
- Space Cadet
-
Matt Dodson goes from first-year candidate at the space academy to a cadet
trainee with responsibility for the lives of those around him.
NOTES:
|
| º
|
According to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, this book formed
a loose basis for the tv series Tom Corbett: Space Cadet
(1950-55). The first episode "The Mercurian Invasion"
is available on
video.
Gifford indicates that Heinlein leased the rights, but did not have
any
other input to the series. The series also expanded to radio, a comic
strip, eight novels, and many comic books.
|
| º
| Early editions of the book have the Kilroy Was Here as an
Earth-Moon ship; later it is an Earth-Mars ship.
|
BOOK PUBLICATION
|
|
| Scribner's (1948). First edition.
|
|
| NEL, ISBN 0-450-00737-5 (1971 UK PB)
|
|
| Scribner's (197x)
|
|
| Ace (197x PB)
|
|
| Del Rey, ISBN 0-345-35311-0 (1987 PB)
|
| -----
| NEL (1993 UK PB)
|
|
| In Four Frontiers, SFBC (2005)
|
1949
|
Circa 1949
from The Fanscient
|
- "Our Fair City"
-
Reporter Pete Perkins has a pal, Pappy, who runs a parking
lot. Pappy's friend, Kitten, is a real dust devil.
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication: Weird Tales (January 1949)
|
| -----
| Beyond Human Ken, ed. Judith Merril, Random House (1952)
|
| -----
| Beyond Human Ken, ed. Judith Merril, Grayson (1953)
|
|
| Selections from Beyond Human Ken, ed. Judith Merril,
Pennant (1954 PB)
|
|
| The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959)
|
|
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine (January 1967)
|
|
| A Treasury of Modern Fantasy, ed. Terry Carr & Martin
H. Greenberg, Avon (1981 PB)
|
|
| Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment, ed. David
G. Hartwell (1988). Also SFBC.
|
| -----
| Masters of Fantasy, ed. Terry Carr & Martin
H. Greenberg, Galahad (1992)
|
|
| The Fantasy Hall of Fame, ed. Robert Silverberg, Harper
Collins (1998)
|
- "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon"
-
Eagle scout Bruce Hollifield is on his way from Earth to Venus with a
three-week stopover on the moon where he hopes to complete the
requirements for Lunar Eagle.
SERIALIZATION first
publication in Boys'
Life:
|
|
| Part I (April 1949)
|
| -----
| Part II (May 1949)
|
PUBLICATION
|
|
| Expanded Universe (1980)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
- "Poor Daddy"
-
To save his valor, Puddin's Daddy must learn to skate in
a suave and secretive manner.
NOTES:
|
| º
| The first of three stories about 18-year-old Puddin'
around 1950, in which she meets her boyfriend Cliff.
|
| º
| Puddin's real name is Maureen, the same as Lazarus Long's mother.
|
PUBLICATION
|
| -----
First publication: Calling All Girls (August 1949)
|
|
Requiem and Tributes
to the Grand Master, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992)
|
- "Gulf"
-
Joe Greene (or is it Gilead,... or Briggs, ... he's not quite sure) is
a spy who loses an important microfilm on the way from the moon to
Chicago, but he may have found something more important.
NOTES:
|
| º
| A letter from Richard A. Hoen in the November 1948
Astounding pretended to review the November 1949 issue of the
magazine, including a review of Gulf. Campbell and Heinlein
then plotted to make the review come true.
|
SERIALIZATION first
publication in Astounding
Science Fiction:
|
|
| Part I (November 1949)
|
|
| Part II (December 1949)
|
PUBLICATION
|
|
| Assignment in Eternity (1953)
|
| -----
| A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels, ed. Damon
Knight, Delacorte (1964)
|
|
| A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels, ed. Damon
Knight, Dell 1158 (1965 PB)
|
| -----
| A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels, ed. Damon
Knight, Mayflower (1968 PB)
|
| -----
| Analog: Writers' Choice, Volume II, ed. Stanley Schmidt,
Davis (1984)
|
|
| Off the Main Sequence (2005)
|
- "Delilah and the Space Rigger"
-
"Tiny" Larsen has a construction schedule to keep for Space Station
One. How can he manage that when those goundhog boneheads have sent a
woman radio operator?
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.075] | Short story.
| | [G.112] | Unfilmed teleplay adaptation of the story written circa 1953.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
| First person narrator: "Dad" Witherspoon.
PUBLICATION
|
|
| First publication: Blue Book (December 1949)
|
|
| The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
|
|
| The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1958)
|
| -----
| A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966)
|
|
| The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
|
| -----
| Wide-Angle Lens, ed. Phyllis R. Fenner, William Morrow (1980)
|
|
| Life Line (1993)
|
- "The Long Watch" (aka "Rebellion on the Moon")
-
To foil a military coup, Johnny Ezra Dahlquist must ensure that
none of the atom bombs on the moon are in working order.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.076a] | Heinlein's original story.
| | [G.076b] | "Rebellion on the Moon" -- Heavily edited for American Legion
Magazine. According to Gifford, never republished in the US.
| | [G.110] | Unfilmed teleplay adaptation of the story written circa 1953.
|
PUBLICATION:
|
|
| First publication: American Legion Magazine (December 1949) [G.076b]
|
| -----
| Beyond Time and Space, ed. August Derleth, Pellegrini
Cudahy (1950)
|
|
| The Green Hills of
Earth (1951) [G.076a]
|
|
| Nebula Science Fiction (Number 12, Summer 1955). Title is "Rebellion
on the Moon". [G.076b]
|
|
| Beyond Time and Space, ed. August Derleth, Berkley (1958 PB)
|
| -----
| The Robert
Heinlein Omnibus (1958) [G.076a]
|
| -----
| A Robert Heinlein
Omnibus (1966) [G.076a]
|
|
| The Past Through
Tomorrow (1967) [G.076a]
|
|
| The Best of Robert Heinlein
(1973) [G.076a]
|
|
| The Science Fiction Roll of Honor, ed. Frederick Pohl,
Random House (1975). Also SFBC.
|
| -----
| The Future at War Volume 1: Thor's Hammer, ed. Reginald Bretnor, Ace (1979)
|
| -----
| Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow,
ed. Charles G. Waugh &
Martin H. Greenberg, Crown/Bonanza (1987)
|
|
| New Destinies, Volume VI, ed. Jim
Baen (1988)
|
| -----
| A Separate Star: A Science Fiction Tribute to Rudyard Kipling, ed. David Drake & Sandra Miesel, Bae
(1989)
|
|
| Grand Master's Choice, ed. Andre Norton & Ingrid
Zierhut, NESFA Press (1989)
|
| -----
| Cities in Space, ed. Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr, Ace (1991)
|
|
| Life Line (1980)
|
| The SFWA Grand Masters Volume 1, ed. Frederik Pohl (2000)
|
| -----
| The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and
Fantasy, ed. Garyn G. Roberts (2001)
| |
- Red Planet
-
Young Martian colonist Jim Marlow and his Martian pet Willis head to an oppresive
boarding school on Mars.
OPUS NUMBERS:
| | [G.077a] | Heinlein's original novel.
| | [G.077b] | Edited by Schribner's.
|
NOTES:
|
| º
| Portions cut by the editor were republished in Grumbles from
the Grave (1989) and in the 1991 reissue.
|
BOOK PUBLICATION:
|
|
| Scribner's (1949). First edition. There may have been a similar
library binding produced at the same time. [G.077b]
|
|
| In a later year, Scribner's published a $1.25 paperback edition
with art printed on the cover. I have seen one hardback version of
this (about 8 1/8" by 5 3/8"), but I would guess that it is
actually a paperback that was stripped and bound by a library,
with the original paperback cover pasted to the bound book.
|
|
| Pan Books #X712 (1967 UK PB)
|
|
| Ace (197x PB)
|
|
| Del Rey (197x PB)
|
|
| Del Rey (1987 PB) [G.077a].
Also part of the boxed set
Adventures in Tomorrow.
|
|
| Del Rey (199x)
|
| -----
| Robert Hale (2000 UK)
|
|
| In Four Frontiers, SFBC (2005)
|
EXCERPTS:
|
| -----
| Cut portions from Heinlein's original are published in
Grumbles from the Grave (1989)
|
OTHER MEDIA:
|
| -----
| Animated mini-series loosely based on the novel (1994)
|
1950
- "Cliff and the Calories"
-
Plump Puddin' certainly lives up to her nickname, until the day she starts
a diet. The diet fails, but what effect will that have for boyfriend Cliff?
NOTES:
|
| º
| "Poor Daddy"
and "The Bulletin Board" are the other two
Puddin' stories. "Mother and the Animal Kingdom"
was proposed but not written.
|
PUBLICATION
|
| -----
| First publication: Senior Prom (Issue #100 of Calling All
Girls) (August 1950)
|
|
| Expanded Universe (1980)
|
- Farmer in the Sky (aka Satellite Scout)
-
After his mother dies, Bill Lermer agrees to trying a new life on
Ganymede with his father and a new step-family.
| | | | | | | | |
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First publication: Saturday Evening Post (February 8, 1947)
The Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey, one cassette or
one LP,
Caedmon (1977 LP) and (1979 Cassette)
Scribner's (1947). First edition.
is available on
video.
Gifford indicates that Heinlein leased the rights, but did not have
any
other input to the series. The series also expanded to radio, a comic
strip, eight novels, and many comic books.
