Robert A. Heinlein

A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to become colonists on Ganymede, the third moon of Jupiter.

To sail beyond the sunset was the last novel published before Heinlein died in 1988. It is the last of the "Lazarus Long" cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism -- the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them so that somewhere (for example) the Land of Oz is real. It can easily be considered the capstone to the series,...

Overview: The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it "The Bug War." Everything up to then and still later were "incidents," "patrols," or "police actions." However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war. In one of Robert A. Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers,...

Join forces with a swashbuckling duo of inter-galactic space rogues struggling to save the future and history of civilization.

This collection includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose origins--and relation to the young man--are more complex and stranger than the Ouroboros ring on the barkeep's finger. In The Man Who Traveled in Elephants, we join a former traveling salesman on a bus. He and his wife had once traveled with a host of imaginary animals...

A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular Patrol vessel and encounters danger on Venus.

Loved by the latest descendant of the starman who brought him to Earth to be a family pet, Lummox the alien beast eats a neighbor's cat and begins to grow to the point that he alarms authorities, who resolve to take Lummox away.

Courageous soldiers travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.