''Expanded Universe, The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein'' is a 1980 collection of stories and essays by American writer
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accu ...
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The trade paperback 1981 edition lists the subtitle under other Heinlein books as ''More Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein'' because the contents subsume the 1966 Ace Books collection, ''
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein
''The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein'' is a collection of science fiction short story, short stories by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1966.
It includes an introduction entitled "Pandora's Box" that describes some of the difficult ...
''. The current volume is dedicated to
William Targ.
Contents
The book collects many short stories and essays, with a foreword for each. They are:
* ''Forward''
* "
Life-Line
"Life-Line" is a short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein. Published in the August 1939 edition of ''Astounding'', it was Heinlein's first published short story.
The protagonist, Professor Hugo Pinero, builds a machine that will predict ...
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Successful Operation"
* "
Blowups Happen
"Blowups Happen" is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It is one of two stories in which Heinlein, using only public knowledge of nuclear fission, anticipated the actual development of nuclear technology a few ...
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Solution Unsatisfactory
"Solution Unsatisfactory" is a 1941 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It describes the US effort to build a nuclear weapon in order to end the ongoing World War II, and its dystopian consequences to the nation and ...
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The Last Days of the United States
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How to Be a Survivor
How may refer to:
* How (greeting), a word used in some misrepresentations of Native American/First Nations speech
* How, an interrogative word in English grammar
Art and entertainment Literature
* ''How'' (book), a 2007 book by Dov Seidma ...
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Pie from the Sky
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts (pecan pie), brown sugar (sugar pie), sweete ...
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They Do It with Mirrors"
* "
Free Men" (*)
* "
No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying"
* "
A Bathroom of Her Own
"A Bathroom of Her Own" is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein about a political campaign in the U.S. after World War II. Written in 1946, it was unpublished until printed in Heinlein's ''Expanded Universe (Heinlein), Expanded Universe'' (1980). "
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On the Slopes of Vesuvius"
* "
Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon"
* "
Pandora's Box
Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem ''Works and Days''. Hesiod reported that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing phys ...
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Where To? (1950, 1965, 1980)
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Cliff and the Calories"
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Ray Guns and Rocket Ships"
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The Third Millennium Opens"
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Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?"
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Pravda Means Truth
''Pravda'' ( rus, Правда, p=ˈpravdə, a=Ru-правда.ogg, "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the ...
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Inside Intourist
Inside may refer to:
* Insider, a member of any group of people of limited number and generally restricted access
Film
* ''Inside'' (1996 film), an American television film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Eric Stoltz
* ''Inside'' (2002 f ...
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Searchlight
A searchlight (or spotlight) is an apparatus that combines an extremely bright source (traditionally a carbon arc lamp) with a mirrored parabolic reflector to project a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays in a particular direc ...
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The Pragmatics of Patriotism
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Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You"
* "
Larger than Life", a memoir in tribute to
E. E. "Doc" Smith
* "
Spinoff", about
NASA spinoff technologies
NASA spinoff technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of NASA, through research and development contracts, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or STTR awards, licensing of NASA patent ...
* "
The Happy Days Ahead"
:The six items marked with (*) appeared in ''The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein''.
When divided into two volumes, Volume 1 concludes with "On the Slopes of Vesuvius", and Volume 2 picks up with "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon".
Reception
Greg Costikyan
Greg Costikyan (born July 22, 1959, in New York City), sometimes known under the pseudonym "Designer X", is an American game designer and science fiction writer.
Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including: hex-based wa ...
reviewed ''Expanded Universe'' in ''
Ares Magazine'' #8 and commented that "''Expanded Universe'' is a book for the completist, the Heinlein devotee, and those interesting in seeing what Heinlein the man, rather than Heinlein the writer, actually believes."
Reviews
*Review by Spider Robinson (1980) in ''
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William C ...
'', May 1980
*Review by Alexei Panshin (1981) in ''
Omni'', April 1981
*Review by Joseph Nicholas (1981) in ''Paperback Inferno'', Volume 4, Number 6
*Review by Jack Williamson (1981) in ''
Omni'', July 1981
*Review by Andrew Andrews (1981) in ''
Science Fiction Review
Richard E. Geis (July 19, 1927 – February 4, 2013) was an American science fiction fan and writer, and erotica writer, from Portland, Oregon, who won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1982 and 1983; and whose science fiction fanzine ...
'', Fall 1981
*Review by Dave Langford (1981) in ''
Foundation
Foundation may refer to:
* Foundation (nonprofit), a type of charitable organization
** Foundation (United States law), a type of charitable organization in the U.S.
** Private foundation, a charitable organization that, while serving a good cause ...
'', #23 October 1981
*Review by Tom Easton (1981) in ''
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William C ...
'', October 12, 1981
References
External links
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1980 short story collections
Short story collections by Robert A. Heinlein
Ace Books books
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