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Summary
(From the publisher):
The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging form Crime and Punishment to the Love Life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitic to Post-Holocaust America; from the Nature of Courage to the Nature of Reality; it's all here and it's all great -- straight from the mind of the finest science fiction writer of them all. But beware: after reading it, you too will occupy an Expanded Universe!
Contents:
- Foreward by Robert A. Heinlein
- Life-Line
- Successful Operation
- Blowups Happen
- Situation Unsatisfactory
- The Last Days of the United States
- How to Be a Survivor
- Pie from the Sky
- They do It with Mirrors
- Free Men
- No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying--
- A Bathroom of Her Own
- The Slopes of Vesuvius
- Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon
- Pandora’s Box
- Where To?
- Cliff and the Calories
- Ray Guns and Rocket Ships
- The Third Millennium Opens
- Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?
- "Pravda" Means "Truth"
- Inside Intourist
- Searchlight
- The Pragmatics of Patriotism
- Larger than Life
- Spinoff
- The Happy Days Ahead
Original title: Expanded Universe
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction
The following works are contained within this one:
Heil! (1940) [Short Story]
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Blowups Happen (1940) [Short Story]
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Solution Unsatisfactory (1941) [Short Story]
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Searchlight (1962) [Short Story]
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Notes:
- Dedication: "To William Targ"
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