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The Past Through Tomorrow: Robert A. Heinlein's Future History Stories
The Past Through Tomorrow Robert A Heinlein's Future History Stories Author:Robert A. Heinlein Here, in one volume, are nearly all the stories, novelettes, novella, and novels which make up Heinlein's famous Future History -- the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work. Heinlein wrote most of the Future History stories early in his career, between 1939 and 1941 ... more »and between 1945 and 1950. Most of the Future History stories written prior to 1967 are collected in The Past Through Tomorrow, which also contains the final version of the chart. That collection does not include Universe and Common Sense; they were published separately as Orphans of the Sky.
Contents:
Introduction (The Past Through Tomorrow) (1967) • essay by Damon Knight
Life-Line [Future History] (1939) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
The Roads Must Roll [Future History] (1940) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
Blowups Happen [Future History] (1940) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
The Man Who Sold the Moon [D. D. Harriman] (1950) / novella by Robert A. Heinlein
Delilah and the Space-Rigger [Future History] (1949) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Space Jockey [Future History] (1947) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Requiem [D. D. Harriman] (1940) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
The Long Watch [Future History] (1949) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Gentlemen, Be Seated [Future History] (1948) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
The Black Pits of Luna (juvenile) [Future History] (1948) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
"It's Great to Be Back!" [Future History] (1947) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
"—We Also Walk Dogs" [Future History] (1941) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
Searchlight [Future History] (1962) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Ordeal in Space [Future History] (1948) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
The Green Hills of Earth [Future History] (1947) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Logic of Empire [Future History] (1941) / novella by Robert A. Heinlein
The Menace from Earth [Future History] (1957) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
"If This Goes On —" [Future History] (1940) / novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Coventry [Future History] (1940) / novella by Robert A. Heinlein
Misfit [Future History] (1939) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
Methuselah's Children [Lazarus Long] (1958) / novel by Robert A. Heinlein