Robert A Heinlein

"A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own "psi" powers--including...

In "Gulf," the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide what to do with the rest of us. "Elsewhen" deals with the nature of Being. In "Lost legacy" it is proved that we are all members of that league--or would be, if we but had eyes to see. "Jerry was a man" deals with what it means to be a man.

Overview: Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered...

On vacation in Polynesia, Alex Hergensheimer experiences a series of world-changes, all of which point to Armageddon and reveal him to be a pawn in the ancient feud between God and Lucifer.

After a nuclear attack Hugh Farnham and his family are transported into the future through a fluke nuclear blast. They find themselves in a world where black and white roles are reversed and whites are kept as slaves.

Follows the dashing Colonel Colin Campbell, a philosopher/soldier/rogue, on a whirlwind adventure from orbiting luxury condos to the Wild West free-enterprise zones of the Moon to the daydream fantasy worlds of past and future.

After being discharged from the war, E.C. Gordon responds to a newspaper ad which asks "Are you a coward?". He discovers the ad has been placed by a beautiful woman named Star. Star informs him that he is the one to embark on a perilous quest to retrieve the Egg of the Phoenix.

Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.

In the year 2100 a corrupt dictator rules the United States, but one soldier dares to defy authority and risk his life to overthrow tyranny.

All 21 stories that make up Heinlein's Future History- the architecture of Man's destiny.