Robert A. Heinlein bibliography

The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) was productive during a writing career that spanned the last 49 years of his life; the Robert A. Heinlein bibliography includes 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections published during his life. Four films, two TV series, several episodes of a radio series, and a board game derive more or less directly from his work. He wrote a screenplay for one of the films. Heinlein edited an anthology of other writers' SF short stories.

Three non-fiction books and two poems have been published posthumously. One novel has been published posthumously and another, an unusual collaboration, was published in 2006. Four collections have been published posthumously.

Heinlein's fictional works can be found in the library under PS3515.E288, or under Dewey 813.54. Known pseudonyms include Anson MacDonald (7 times), Lyle Monroe (7), John Riverside (1), Caleb Saunders (1), and Simon York (1). All the works originally attributed to MacDonald, Saunders, Riverside and York, and many of the works originally attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.

Novels

Novels marked with an asterisk * are generally considered juvenile novels, although some works defy easy categorization.

Early Heinlein novels

• Rocket Ship Galileo, 1947 *
• Beyond This Horizon, 1948 (initially serialized in 1942, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald)
• Space Cadet, 1948 *
• Red Planet, 1949 *
• Sixth Column, 1949 (initially serialized in 1941, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald) (aka: The Day After Tomorrow)
• Between Planets, 1951 *
• The Puppet Masters, 1951 (re-published posthumously with excisions restored, 1990)
• The Rolling Stones, 1952 (aka: Space Family Stone) *
• Farmer in the Sky, 1953 (initially serialized in 1950 in a condensed version in Boys' Life magazine as "Satellite Scout" (Retro Hugo Award, 1951) *
• Starman Jones, 1953 *
• The Star Beast, 1954 *
• Tunnel in the Sky, 1955 *
• Double Star, 1956—Hugo Award, 1956
• Time for the Stars, 1956 *
• Citizen of the Galaxy, 1957 *
• The Door into Summer, 1957
• Have Space Suit—Will Travel, 1958—Hugo Award nominee, 1959 *
• Methuselah's Children, 1958 (originally a serialized short story in 1941)
• Starship Troopers, 1959—Hugo Award, 1960

Middle Heinlein novels

• Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961 -- Hugo Award, 1962, (republished at the original greater length in 1991)
• Podkayne of Mars, 1963 *
• Orphans of the Sky, 1963 (fix-up novel comprising the novellas "Universe" and "Common Sense", both originally published in 1941)
• Glory Road, 1963—Hugo Award nominee, 1964
• Farnham's Freehold, 1965
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1966 -- Hugo Award, 1967
• I Will Fear No Evil, 1970
• Time Enough for Love, 1973—Nebula Award nominated, 1973; Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominated, 1974

Late Heinlein novels

• The Number of the Beast, 1980
• Friday, 1982—Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1983
• Job: A Comedy of Justice, 1984 - Nebula Award nominee, 1984; Locus Fantasy Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, 1985
• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, 1985
• To Sail Beyond the Sunset, 1987

Early Heinlein works published posthumously

• For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (written in 1939, published posthumously in 2003)
• Variable Star (posthumously with Spider Robinson) (Heinlein's 8 page outline written in 1955; Robinson's full novel from the outline appeared in 2006)

Short fiction

"Future History" short fiction

• "Life-Line", 1939
• "Let There Be Light", 1940
• "Misfit", 1939
• "The Roads Must Roll", 1940
• "Requiem", 1940
• "If This Goes On—", 1940, first novel.
• "Coventry", 1940
• "Blowups Happen", 1940
• "Universe", 1941
• "—We Also Walk Dogs" 1941 (as Anson MacDonald)
• "Common Sense", 1941
• "Methuselah's Children", 1941 (lengthened and published as a novel, 1958)
• "Logic of Empire", 1941
• "Space Jockey", 1947
• "It's Great to Be Back!", 1947
• "The Green Hills of Earth", 1947
• "Ordeal in Space", 1948
• "The Long Watch", 1948
• "Gentlemen, Be Seated!", 1948
• "The Black Pits of Luna", 1948
• "Delilah and the Space Rigger", 1949
• "The Man Who Sold the Moon", 1951, (Retro Hugo Award)
• "The Menace From Earth", 1957
• "Searchlight", 1962

Other short speculative fiction

All the works initially attributed to Anson MacDonald, Caleb Saunders, John Riverside and Simon York, and many of the works attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.

At Heinlein's insistence, the three Lyle Monroe stories marked with the symbol '§' were never reissued in a Heinlein anthology during his lifetime.

• "Magic, Inc.", 1940 (aka: "The Devil Makes the Law")
• "Solution Unsatisfactory", 1940 (as Anson MacDonald)
• "Let There Be Light", 1940 (as Lyle Monroe)
• "Successful Operation" 1940 (aka: "Heil!") (as Lyle Monroe)
• "They", 1941
• "—And He Built a Crooked House—", 1941
• "By His Bootstraps", 1941 (as Anson MacDonald)
• "Lost Legacy", 1941 (aka: "Lost Legion") (as Lyle Monroe)
• "Elsewhen", 1941 (aka: "Elsewhere") (as Caleb Saunders)
• § "Beyond Doubt", 1941 (as Lyle Monroe with Elma Wentz)
• "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag", 1942 (as John Riverside)
• "Waldo", 1942 (as Anson MacDonald)
• § "My Object All Sublime", 1942 (as Lyle Monroe)
• "Goldfish Bowl", 1942 (as Anson MacDonald)
• § "Pied Piper", 1942 (as Lyle Monroe)
• "Free Men", 1946 (published 1966)
• "Jerry Was a Man", 1947
• "Columbus Was a Dope", 1947 (as Lyle Monroe)
• "On the Slopes of Vesuvius", 1947
• "Our Fair City", 1948
• "Gulf", 1949
• "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon", 1949
• "Destination Moon", 1950
• "The Year of the Jackpot", 1952
• "Project Nightmare", 1953
• "Sky Lift", 1953
• "Tenderfoot in Space", 1956 (serialized 1958)
• "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants", 1957 (aka: "The Elephant Circuit")
• "—All You Zombies—", 1959

Other short fiction

• "A Bathroom of Her Own", 1946
• "Dance Session", 1946 (love poem)
• "The Witch's Daughters", 1946 (poem)
• "Water Is for Washing", 1947
• "They Do It with Mirrors", 1947 (as Simon York)
• "Poor Daddy", 1949
• "Cliff and the Calories", 1950
• "The Bulletin Board", 1951

Collections

• The Man Who Sold the Moon, 1950
• Waldo & Magic, Inc., 1950
• The Green Hills of Earth, 1951
• Assignment in Eternity, 1953
• Revolt in 2100, 1953
• The Robert Heinlein Omnibus, 1958
• The Menace From Earth, 1959
• The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, 1959 (aka: 6 X H)
• Three by Heinlein, 1965
• A Robert Heinlein Omnibus, 1966
• The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
• The Past Through Tomorrow, 1967 (almost-complete Future History collection, missing "Let There Be Light," "Universe," and "Common Sense")
• The Best of Robert A. Heinlein, 1973
• Expanded Universe, 1980
• A Heinlein Trio, 1980 (omnibus of The Puppet Masters, Double Star, and The Door Into Summer)
• The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein, 1999 (omnibus of Waldo & Magic, Inc. and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag)
• Infinite Possibilities, 2003 (omnibus of Tunnel in the Sky, Time for the Stars, and Citizen of the Galaxy)
• To the Stars, 2004 (omnibus of Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones, and The Star Beast)
• Off the Main Sequence, 2005 (short stories including three never before collected)
• Four Frontiers, 2005 (omnibus of Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet, and Farmer in the Sky)
• Outward Bound, 2006 (omnibus of Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Starship Troopers, Podkayne of Mars)

Complete works

• The Virginia Edition, a 46-volume hardcover collection of all of Robert Heinlein's stories, novels, and nonfiction writing, plus a selection of his personal correspondence, was announced by Meisha Merlin Publishing in April 2005; the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust (which now owns all the Heinlein copyrights) instigated the project. Meisha Merlin went out of business in May 2007 after producing six volumes: I Will Fear No Evil, Time Enough for Love, Starship Troopers, For Us, the Living, The Door into Summer, and Double Star.

The Heinlein Prize Trust then embarked on an effort to publish the edition itself, having formed the Virginia Edition Publishing Co. for this purpose. As was true for the Meisha Merlin effort, individual volumes are not offered; subscribers must purchase the entire edition. By January 2009, 21 volumes had been printed: republications of the six Meisha Merlin volumes plus Beyond This Horizon, Stranger in a Strange Land (long version), How to Be a Politician (i.e., Take Back Your Government under its original title), Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet, Farmer in the Sky, Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones, The Star Beast, Tunnel in the Sky, Time for the Stars, Citizen of the Galaxy, and Have Space Suit—Will Travel. A further 10 volumes were printed in May 2010: The Future History of Robert Heinlein (two volumes; much the same as the 1967 collection The Past Through Tomorrow but including "Let There Be Light" and the novellas "Universe" and "Common Sense" while omitting "'—We Also Walk Dogs'"), Friday, The Number of the Beast, Job: A Comedy of Justice, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Podkayne of Mars, Sixth Column, and Expanded Universe.

In July 2007, the Heinlein Prize Trust opened the online Heinlein Archives, which enables anyone to purchase the manuscript versions of all Heinlein's works.

Foreword

• Tomorrow, the Stars, 1952, anthology of stories by 14 authors selected by Frederik Pohl and Judith Merril, foreword by Heinlein who got his name on the cover.

Nonfiction

• No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying, written 1947, published 1973
• Two articles for Encyclopædia Britannica on Paul Dirac and antimatter, and on blood chemistry.
• Grumbles from the Grave, 1989 (posthumously)
• Take Back Your Government: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen, 1992
• Tramp Royale, 1992
• "Spinoff", an article about the commercialization of inventions created for NASA and the American space program, published in Omni magazine, 1980; reprinted in Expanded Universe.

Filmography

• Destination Moon (story (from the book Rocket Ship Galileo), screenplay, technical advisor), 1950 IMDb (Retro Hugo Award, 1951)
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, 1950, (from the book Space Cadet) IMDb
• Project Moonbase, 1953 IMDb
• The Brain Eaters, 1959, (from the book The Puppet Masters, uncredited, sued by Heinlein) IMDb
• Uchu no Senshi (Japanese) (TV Series based on Starship Troopers) (1988)
• Red Planet, TV mini-series (from the book), 1994 IMDb
• The Puppet Masters (film), film (from the book), 1994 IMDb
• Starship Troopers, film very loosely based on the book, 1997 IMDb
• Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles, TV series (based on the movie, which was loosely based on the book Starship Troopers), 1999 IMDb

Spinoffs

• The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, illuminated by D.F Vassallo, 1978
• New Destinies, Vol. VI/Winter 1988 — Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue, 1988
• Fate's Trick by Matt Costello, 1988, a "game book" inspired by Glory Road
• Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master, 1992
• Two different Starship Troopers (board game) board games were published by Avalon Hill in 1976 and 1997
• Dimension X, science fiction radio programs in 1950–1951. Among other writers, episodes were based on Heinlein's Destination Moon (film) (ep. 12), The Green Hills of Earth (ep. 10), Requiem, The Roads Must Roll, and Universe.
• X Minus One, radio series in 1955 - 58: Universe
• Language arts materials for teachers based on Heinlein's works, in support of World Space Week, 2005.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/rahfaq.html
2. ^ "1956 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1956. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
3. ^ "1959 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1959. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
4. ^ "1960 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1960. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
5. ^ "1962 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1962. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
6. ^ "1964 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1964. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
7. ^ "1967 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1967. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
8. ^ "1973 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1973. Retrieved 2009-05-03. 
9. ^ "1974 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1974. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
10. ^ "1983 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1983. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
11. ^ "1984 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1984. Retrieved 2009-05-03. 
12. ^ "1985 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1985. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
13. ^ http://virginiaedition.blogspot.com/
14. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica articles: on Paul Dirac and antimatter, and on blood chemistry. A version of the former, titled "Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You," was published in the anthology Expanded Universe, and demonstrates both Heinlein's skill as a popularizer and his lack of depth in physics; an afterword gives a normalization equation and presents it, incorrectly as being the Dirac equation.

See also

• List of Robert A. Heinlein characters

External links

• The Heinlein Society and their FAQ.
• Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
• Robert A. Heinlein, Grandmaster of Science Fiction
• Robert A. Heinlein at the Internet Book Database of Fiction
• Good bibliography, essays, news, links, etc.
• Robert A. Heinlein at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Illustrated list of Heinlein fiction
• Heinlein Concordance
• Heinlein Archives
• Robert A. Heinlein at Worlds Without End