Robert Heinlein

This book contains 26 of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America....

5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as 'Bugs.'

Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat....

E. C. “Scar” Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn’t given up his habit of scanning the personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "Are you a coward? This is not for you....

From the mind of the storyteller who has captured the imagination of readers from around the worldand across generations comes this classic work of science fiction....

Max finds himself adrift in a downtrodden land - until an unexpected, ultimate adventure carries him away as a stowaway aboard an intergalactic spaceship....

Epic, entertaining, blasphemous, this is the most influential and controversial of Science Fiction novels....

When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Ames is thrown headfirst into danger - and other dimensions....

Life isn't easy for the political dissidents and convicts who live in the scattered colonies that make up lunar civilisation. Everything is regulated strictly, efficiently and cheaply by a central supercomputer, HOLMES IV.

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing 11 great classics....

When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies....

As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything....

Don Harvey is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own....

A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls Hugh Farnham and his bomb shelter into a future world with no sign of other human beings....

Jim Marlowe and his strange-looking Martian friend, Willis, are allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tunes in to a treacherous plot that threatens all the colonists on Mars....

Lummox has been the pet of the Stuart family for generations. With eight legs, a thick hide, and increasingly large size, Lummox is nobody's idea of man's best friend....

After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same....

It’s six against six million in a brilliantly waged near-future war for nothing less than liberty and justice for all. The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion, and the United States has fallen....

Travel to other planets is now a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity of finding habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent....

A new crop of writers emerged from the dawning of the nuclear age, grappling with humankind's place in the universe....