"Heinlein takes the film noir convention of a murder mystery ... and plays literary games with it: he solves the mystery first, then draws ... herrings across the path of the tale of the club-footed Richard Ames, who only wishes to kill his father, the most irritating man in all the universes ..."

The author ties together themes and characters from his previous stories as he traces the life and loves of Maureen Johnson, the mother of Lazarus Long.

Endowed with remarkable longevity and threatened by the efforts of fellow earthmen to uncover their secret, the Families flee the planet in an untested rocket.

Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy ... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate...

Three teenagers and an older scientist develop their own atomic rocket, solve their own space problems and blast off for the moon in spite of mysterious setbacks.

Prophetic science fiction: Life-line; The Roads Must Roll; Blowups Happen; The Man Who Sold the Moon; Delilah and the Spacerigger; Space Jockey; Requiem; The Long Watch; Gentlemen, Be Seated; The Black Pits of Luna; "It's Great to Be Back!"; "We Also Walk Dogs"; Searchlight; Ordeal in Space; The Green Hills of Earth; Logic of Empire; The Menace from Earth; "If This Goes On ..."; Conventry; Misfit; and Methuselah's Children.

Science fiction about a soldier who dares to defy Authority in the year A.D. 2100.

"The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964. This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for the Science Fiction Hall Fame are the...

In Tunnel in the sky, a high school senior goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten day final exam in Advanced Survival, and realizes, after a period of fighting the elements and wildlife, that something has gone wrong with the gate and what was a brief survival exam is an endless struggle for life. In Time for the stars, for a telepathic twin on an exploratory space voyage only a few years pass, yet, when he returns to Earth his...