robert a heinlein the man who sold the moon

No hippie-era pad was complete without a copy of Stranger lying on a beanbag. Some unsavoury aliens whisk him away to an ancient planet where he is forced into some interpersonal development and to accept his responsibilities to the human race. He answers a distress radio call from a rag doll-clutching kid genius. Kip from midwest Centerville USA works the summer before college as a pharmacy soda jerk and wins a stripped-down spacesuit in a soap contest. The book's title is based on something Heinlein's wife said when their cat refused to leave the house. Duped into the 'Long Sleep', he wakes up in the year 2000 and utilises space jumps to inflict his recurring revenge. Highly regarded tale of temporal revenge sees an electronics engineer invent the ultimate household robot, but his greedy business partner and wayward fiancee pull a double-cross. Classic boys' stuff that had a huge impact on 1950s America. The book is jam-packed with so many messages about society and morality that it makes one shudder. A young slave boy is sold to a man who is apparently a beggar, then becomes a free trader on a starship - and eventually learns he is an heir to wealth. Novel written for young readers that impacted on a lot of lives. The novel hums with excitement as the insidious aliens latch on to people’s nervous systems and reduce them to mindless puppets. Heinlein capably panders to 1950s anti-communist paranoia in this story about an invasion of Earth by alien ‘slugs’. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. Dating back to 1939, some of Heinlein's best short fiction is found here - including the title story, 'Roads Must Roll' and 'Requiem'.įirst came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Future History is a loosely-connected framework that was created mainly for marketing purposes. In the absence of the omnibus 'The Past Through Tomorrow' (1967), this early collection is the best of RAH's 'Future History' tales currently on offer.

Robert a heinlein the man who sold the moon