Most Popular Books by Robert A. Heinlein

You Would Have Peace? Then Prepare forWar! Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man.and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelterunder his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn''t expectedwas that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart thefabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other humanbeings. But Farnham''s small group had barelysettled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they foundthat they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapultedFarnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in thenorthern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways thanone. In the new world order, Farnham and hisfamily, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fitonly to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham had no intention ofbeing anybody''s slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reachedthroughout the world. Even if he managed to escape. where could he runto...?

After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them: nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality...

From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the extraordinary work of the grandmaster of SF, Robert A. Heinlein. This one-volume omnibus of Heinlein''s famous ''Future History'' timeline, contains all of the stories, novellas and novels that make up one of the richest coherent narratives in all of science fiction literature. The collections and novels comprising THE PAST THROUGH TOMORROW are THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON, THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH, REVOLT IN 2100, METHUSELAH''S CHILDREN and ORPHANS OF THE SKY.

Friday is a secret courier and ardent lover. Employed by a man she only knows of as "Boss," she is given the most awkward and dangerous cases, which take her from New Zealand to Canada, and through the new States of America''s disunion, all the way out into the stars and the new colony of Botany Bay. Thrust into one calamity after another, she uses her enhanced wits and very many skills to evade, seduce or even kill her way out of any sticky situation she finds herself in. For she is both superior and inferior to the average human. As an AP--artificial person--the best humanity has to offer has been written into Friday''s DNA. Yet she is often treated like a second class citizen--if she were ever able to claim citizenship. Her mother was the test tube and her father the knife, as the saying goes, so she has less rights than the biologically-born human, and no soul, according to the church.

The Number of the Beast is a mind-bending experiment by one of the greatest writers in science fiction who ever lived and the author of the classic bestseller, Starship Troopers. It is a parallel book about parallel universes. Most readers did not realize in 1980 (when it was originally published) that the novel had a sister book, written in 1977, that was never published. That book is finally being published under the title The Pursuit of the Pankera. Both novels deal with parallel universes, share the same main characters and have the same first one-third of the book. However, from that point on (after they make a jump to a parallel universe) the novels diverge completely. And here is where the second part of the experiment comes in. While The Pursuit of the Pankera continues the adventure in a very customary Heinlein manner, reminiscent of his earlier works, The Number of the Beast becomes something very different. On surface, the book is about two men and two women who are attacked by aliens and then embark on roller coaster ride of an adventure through a myriad of universes. But as Jack Kirwan wrote in The National Review, "describing The Number of the Beast thus is like saying Moby Dick is about a one-legged guy trying to catch a fish." The Number of the Beast is a homage to science fiction, to his friends and to characters used in other books, also serving as a parody and a lesson to anyone willing to listen, in a way only Robert A. Heinlein could have presented it.

First Time in Mass Market for These Two Perennially Top-Selling Heinlein Books in a Single Volume. “Not only America’s premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world.” —Stephen King Two of the Grand Master’s finest: The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth. From a mysterious region on Earth, where a more advanced lifeform may be studying the interesting creatures called “humans,” to the first moon colony, where a young girl’s relationship with her boyfriend is endangered by the beautiful Menace from Earth. Classic Heinlein, in a new two-for-one package.

What was to have been a standard ten-day survival course had become an indefinite life-or-death nightmare. A group of young people were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with earth. They were being forced to forge a future where sometimes not even the fittest could survive.

D.D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of Space for All Mankind. The method? Anything that works. Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far. But he will give us the stars.... Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A sinister organization of magicians and a crippled genius with the power to control the human race are portrayed in two short stories.

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.

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.