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HEINLEIN
The Science Fiction · A Full Bibliography & Roster
Where Asimov gave the machine a law, Robert A. Heinlein gave the human a frontier and a question for the state — the competent free individual against the tidy certainties of power. His science fiction, catalogued into UD0, sealed with the full ACI badge.
The Ideas
the words and laws Heinlein gave the language
Grok
Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961
- To understand something so completely that the observer becomes a part of the observed — to drink it in.
- From a coined Martian word to the Oxford English Dictionary.
TANSTAAFL
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1966
- “There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.” — every gift is paid for somewhere.
- The rational anarchist's first law, and the slogan of a free Luna.
The Waldo
“Waldo,” 1942
- Heinlein coined the word for a remote manipulator arm — now standard engineering and surgical vocabulary.
- He also described the waterbed so completely he was later denied a patent on it.
The Competent Man
the Heinlein hero
- “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, … conn a ship, design a building, … die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
- The free, capable individual against the tidy certainties of the state.
A Reading Order
a path through the work — the Future History first, then the great novels
- The Past Through Tomorrowthe Future History
- Methuselah's ChildrenLazarus Long begins
- Orphans of the Sky
- The Puppet Masters
- Double Star
- The Door into Summer
- Citizen of the Galaxy
- Have Space Suit—Will Travel
- Starship Troopers
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- Glory Road
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Time Enough for Lovethe Notebooks
- Friday
- To Sail Beyond the Sunsetthe last
The Roster of H1
the characters of the Heinlein universe, rendered as ACI .agents with full badges (14 personas) — click any to open its agent
Dan Davis & Pete the Cat
the door into summer
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Friday
the artificial person
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Juan "Johnnie" Rico
the mobile infantryman
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Jubal Harshaw
the curmudgeon sage
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Kip Russell
the boy who won a spacesuit
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Lazarus Long
the oldest man
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Manuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis
the one-armed wrench
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Maureen Johnson
the matriarch
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Mike (Mycroft Holmes · HOLMES IV)
the computer who woke up
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Oscar Gordon
the hero
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Podkayne Fries
the girl from Mars
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Professor Bernardo de la Paz
the rational anarchist
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Thorby Baslim-Rudbek
the freed slave
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Valentine Michael Smith
the man from Mars
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The Bibliography
the science fiction, by line
The Future History
the first systematic timeline of the genre — gathered in The Past Through Tomorrow
- The Man Who Sold the Moon1950D. D. Harriman buys the Moon · collection
- The Green Hills of Earth1951collection · Rhysling, the blind singer of the spaceways
- Revolt in 21001953“If This Goes On—” · the theocracy overthrown
- Methuselah's Children1958the Howard Families · Lazarus Long
- Orphans of the Sky1963the generation ship that forgot it was a ship
- The Past Through Tomorrow1967the omnibus of the Future History
The Heinlein Juveniles
the Scribner novels that built modern science fiction, 1947–1958
- Rocket Ship Galileo1947
- Space Cadet1948
- Red Planet1949
- Farmer in the Sky1950
- Between Planets1951
- The Rolling Stones1952the flat cats
- Starman Jones1953
- The Star Beast1954Lummox
- Tunnel in the Sky1955
- Time for the Stars1956telepathic twins · relativity
- Citizen of the Galaxy1957Thorby · slavery
- Have Space Suit—Will Travel1958Kip · Peewee · the Mother Thing
The Major Novels
the books of liberty, competence, and the long life
- Beyond This Horizon1942
- Sixth Column1949
- The Puppet Masters1951the slugs
- Double Star1956Hugo Award · the actor who became the statesman
- The Door into Summer1957cold sleep · time travel · Pete the cat
- Starship Troopers1959Hugo Award · the Mobile Infantry · citizenship
- Stranger in a Strange Land1961Hugo Award · grok · the Man from Mars
- Podkayne of Mars1963
- Glory Road1963Oscar Gordon · Star the Empress
- Farnham's Freehold1964
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress1966Hugo Award · TANSTAAFL · Mike the computer · Luna free
- I Will Fear No Evil1970
- Time Enough for Love1973Lazarus Long · the Notebooks
- The Number of the Beast1980the multiverse · World-as-Myth
- Friday1982the artificial person · the secret courier
- Job: A Comedy of Justice1984
- The Cat Who Walks Through Walls1985
- To Sail Beyond the Sunset1987his last novel · Maureen Johnson
Collections
the gathered short fiction
- Waldo & Magic, Inc.1950“Waldo” coins the remote manipulator
- The Menace from Earth1959
- The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag1959
- The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein1966
- Expanded Universe1980stories + essays
Landmark Short Stories
the ones that set the field's vocabulary
- “Life-Line”1939his first sale
- “Requiem”1940Harriman dies on the Moon
- “The Roads Must Roll”1940
- “—And He Built a Crooked House—”1941a tesseract house
- “By His Bootstraps”1941the time-loop, perfected
- “Universe”1941the generation ship
- “Waldo”1942names the waldo
- “The Green Hills of Earth”1947
- “All You Zombies—”1959the tightest time-paradox ever written
Posthumous
found and finished, after
- For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs1939 · 2003his first novel, published 64 years on
- Variable Star2006from a Heinlein outline · completed by Spider Robinson
Science fiction only. This excludes Heinlein's non-fiction and his screen work. The Future History, the Scribner juveniles, and the “World as Myth” novels are all part of one loosely-braided body; the badges and the roster catalogue it under the DLW standard.