When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril.

First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.

Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting back. Then four more follow up agents also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. What the humans know, they know. What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do. And most of Iowa is already under their control.

Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand.

" David Baker flawlessly narrates the story ... a great way to introduce young listeners to a Heinlein classic. " — Booklist

" This superb full-cast narration of Heinlein's classic will appeal to most science fiction aficionados. ... listeners will be drawn into a seamless and dramatic performance... Excellent pacing and a story for those of all ages round out a notable audiobook. " Earphones Award — AudioFile Aug/Sep 2007

Lummox is not exactly the family dog. Big a triceratops but more exotic in appetite—he once ate a used Buick—"Lummy" has a decided penchant for trouble. Still, he’s been part of the Thomas clan for generations, and his current owner, John Thomas Stuart, XI, cares for him deeply. Just how deeply will be tested when Lummox’s restless appetite starts a chain of events that turn his relationship with John Thomas upside down—and puts first John Thomas and then the Earth itself in peril.

Scorchingly funny, politically acute, yet deeply human, The Star Beast remains one of Robert Heinlein’s most beloved novels.

Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution--human telepathy.

Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth, but one of them has to stay behind while the other explores the depths of space.This is one of Heinlein's triumphs.

Bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein's autobiographical masterpiece--a wondrous return to the alternate universes that all Heinlein fans have come to know and love.

Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls . The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead...

Filled with the master's most beloved characters, To Sail Beyond the Sunset broadens and enriches Heinlein's epic visions of time and space, life and death, love and desire...

From the author of STARSHIP TROOPERS comes TUNNEL IN THE SKY, the story of a group of students who are dropped on a foreign planet in order to test their survival skills. When the rescue ship doesn't arrive, they must create a new society and learn to adapt to their new life in the wild… but are their greatest troubles from beasts or fellow man?

Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human.

"Gulf": in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't decide on quite what to do with the rest of us. The prequel to Heinlein's later New York Times best seller, Friday .

"Lost Legacy": in which it is proved that we are all members of that league of the superhuman–or would be, if we but had eyes to see.

Plus two great short stories: Two of the master's finest: one on the nature of being, the other on what it means to be a Man. The second story, "Jerry Was a Man," was adapted for the TV series Masters of Science Fiction , and is now available on DVD.

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A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generationsFirst prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Moon. The consolation prize was an authentic space suit, and when scientifically minded high school senior Kip Russell won it, he knew for certain he would use it one day to make a sojourn of his own to the stars. But "one day" comes sooner than he thinks when he tries on the suit in his backyard -- and finds himself worlds away, a prisoner aboard a space pirate's ship, and heading straight for what could be his final destination....

Edition avec couverture alternative de ISBN 9782290332238 .

Après la grande guerre atomique de la fin du XXe siècle, le monde ne fut plus que chaos et désordre. Pour éliminer les hordes barbares qui s'étaient formées, les survivants durent remettre leur sort entre les mains de l'armée. Un siècle plus tard la civilisation, arrivée à l'âge des étoiles, reste dirigée par les militaires. Dans cet univers, Juan Rico s'engage le jour de ses dix-huit ans dans l'infanterie spatiale. Il ne sait pas quel sort terrible attend les fantassins qui, sur les mondes lointains, vont devoir affronter les armées arachnides..

Through other dimensions, across time, and beyond space to launch into fourteen thrilling new stories by the best new writers of speculative fiction. Created by L. Ron Hubbard and judged by top writers in the science fiction and fantasy field, the Writers of the Future anthology each year brings you breathtaking adventures and startling journeys into the unknown. Escape reality with these creative and original tales that come excitingly to life with vivid characters in undiscovered galaxies and on alien worlds.

From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the extraordinary work of the grandmaster of SF, Robert A. Heinlein.

This one-volume omnibus of Heinlein's famous 'Future History' timeline, contains all of the stories, novellas and novels that make up one of the richest coherent narratives in all of science fiction literature. The collections and novels comprising THE PAST THROUGH TOMORROW are THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON, THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH, REVOLT IN 2100, METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN and ORPHANS OF THE SKY.

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, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind’s most alarming enemy.

جنگاوران اختر ناو داستان سربازی ساده است ... سربازی از سده‌ی بیست و دوم. جوان هجده ساله‌ای مشتاق خدمت که برای آموختن رزم به صف سربازان و جنگاوران مدافع زمین می‌پیوندد و طی این دوره رابطه‌ی میان وظیفه و بهایی را که باید برای آزادی پرداخت، در می‌یابد.
او به عرصه‌ی جنگی بین‌ستاره‌ای و برای دفاع از سرزمینش پا می‌گذارد. در نبردهایی عجیب و باورنکردنی در برابر دشمنانی بی‌ترحم و خون‌خوار و برای زنده ماندن می‌جنگد - شاید که وجودش تنها لحظه‌ای بیش‌تر سد راه این موجودات برخاسته برای نابودی نژاد بشر و خاستگاهش شود. (برگرفته از توضیحات پشت جلد کتاب)

کتاب حاضر، مشتمل بر چند داستان کوتاه علمي و تخيلي است که با زباني ساده و روان نگاشته شده‌اند. «خط زندگي»، «کشيک طولاني»، «تنگ ماهي»، «همه‌ی شما زامبي‌ها»، «حفره‌هاي تاريک لونا»، «نامناسب» عنوان‌هاي برخي از داستان‌هاي اين کتاب هستند. نويسنده يکي از بزرگ‌ترين نويسندگان داستان‌هاي علمي تخيلي دنيا است. داستان‌هاي اين نويسنده درباره موضوعاتي نگاشته شده‌اند که تا پيش از او از آن‌ها حرفي به ميان نبوده است. دنياي ذهني اين نويسنده مملو از پيش‌بيني‌هاي علمي و مهندسي آينده‌نگرانه است.

Starship Troopers is a classic novel by one of science fiction's greatest writers of all time and is now a Tri-Star movie. In one of Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe -- and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.

Годината е 4272 по григорианския календар, или 2053 от началото на Великата Диаспора на човешката раса.

Лазарус Лонг – човекът с много лица и имена, преживял повече от две хилядолетия , най-възрастният член на човешката раса – се завръща на планетата Секундус, за да умре. По най-простия начин – чрез отказ от поредното подмладяване. Но се намират хора, които не могат да позволят мъдростта му да бъде изгубена за човечеството. А и самия Лазурис има какво още да научи…

Да се събудиш в едно легло с окървавен труп и котарак не е най-интересния начин да започнеш деня, но определено е интригуващо начало за роман… Морийн Джонсън е фигурата, която обединява разнообразни светове от различни времеви линии между деветнадесети и четиридесет и трети век. Тя е член на фондация „Хауард“ — общество от хора, които носят в себе си гена на дълголетието и овладяват изкуството за подмладяване. Сексът е основна тема в тази книга, а парадоксите на времето помагат да се преодолеят всякакви табута.

In one of Heinlein's most controversial best-sellers, a recruit in a future world is sent through the toughest boot camp in the Universe to join the Terran Mobile Infantry in battle against mankind's most alarming enemy.

Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Reserve on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper. In boot camp he learns how to become a soldier, but it is in war that he will learn why.

Many consider this Hugo Award-winning book to be Heinlein's best. Forget the battle scenes and the high-tech weapons; this is Heinlein in his element, talking people and politics.

Robert Heinlein's Hugo Award-winning all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science fiction classic.

Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of humankind, and as he teaches them about grokking and water-sharing, he also inspires a transformation that will alter Earth’s inhabitants forever...