The Fantasies of Robert Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of American SF writers, also wrote fantasy fiction throughout his long career, but especially in the early 1940s. The Golden Age of SF was also a time of revolution in fantasy fiction, and Heinlein was at the forefront. His fantasies were convincingly set in the real world, particularly those published in the famous magazine Unknown Worlds, including such stories as Magic, Inc., They--, and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.
Now all of Heinlein's best fantasy short stories, most of them long novellas, have been collected in one big volume for the first time.
Contents:
- Magic, Inc. (1940)
- —And He Built a Crooked House (1940)
- They— (1941)
- Waldo (1942)
- The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942)
- Our Fair City (1948)
- The Man Who Traveled in Elephants (1957)
- —All You Zombies— (1959)
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.
He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades. He, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.