Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. (Source.)
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Stranger in a Strange Land
37 editions - first published in 1961 -
Time Enough for Love
28 editions - first published in 1973 -
Starship Troopers
26 editions - first published in 1959 -
Podkayne of Mars
26 editions - first published in 1963 -
Orphans of the Sky
25 editions - first published in 1963 -
The Puppet Masters
24 editions - first published in 1951 -
Revolt in 2100
23 editions - first published in 1953 -
The Door into Summer
23 editions - first published in 1957 -
The Green Hills of Earth
23 editions - first published in 1951 -
Citizen of the Galaxy
22 editions - first published in 1957 -
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
21 editions - first published in 1966 -
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
21 editions - first published in 1958 -
Beyond This Horizon
20 editions - first published in 1948 -
Glory Road
20 editions - first published in 1963 -
Methuselah's children
20 editions - first published in 1958 -
Rocket Ship Galileo
19 editions - first published in 1947 -
Red Planet
18 editions - first published in 1949 -
The Day After Tomorrow
18 editions - first published in 1949 -
The past through tomorrow: 'Future history' stories
17 editions - first published in 1967 -
I Will Fear No Evil
17 editions - first published in 1970 -
Menace from Earth
17 editions - first published in 1959 -
Between Planets
16 editions - first published in 1951 -
Assignment in Eternity
16 editions - first published in 1953 -
Tunnel in the sky
16 editions - first published in 1955 -
The star beast
15 editions - first published in 1954 -
Farnham's Freehold
15 editions - first published in 1964 -
Farmer in the Sky
15 editions - first published in 1950 -
The man who sold the moon
15 editions - first published in 1950 -
Double Star
15 editions - first published in 1956 -
Starman Jones
15 editions - first published in 1953 -
Time for the Stars
14 editions - first published in 1956 -
Space Cadet
13 editions - first published in 1948 -
Waldo and Magic, Inc
11 editions - first published in 1950 -
Friday
10 editions - first published in 1982 -
Tomorrow the Stars: a science fiction anthology
10 editions - first published in 1952 -
The number of the beast
10 editions - first published in 1980 -
Farnhams Freehold
9 editions - first published in 1971 -
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
9 editions - first published in 1959 -
The moon is a harsh mistress
8 editions - first published in 1974 -
Expanded Universe: The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein.
8 editions - first published in 1980 -
The Rolling Stones
7 editions - first published in 1952 -
The cat who walks through walls: a comedy of manners
7 editions - first published in 1985 -
Variable Star
7 editions - first published in 2006 -
Requiem: new collected works by Robert A. Heinlein and tributes to the grand master
7 editions - first published in 1992 -
The Puppet Masters
6 editions - first published in 1951 -
Job: A Comedy of Justice
5 editions - first published in 1984 -
For us, the living: a comedy of customs
5 editions - first published in 2003 -
To sail beyond the sunset
5 editions - first published in 1987 -
A Heinlein trio: The Puppet Masters, Double Star, The Door into Summer
4 editions - first published in 1956 -
Tomorrow's children: 18 tales of fantasy and science fiction.
4 editions - first published in 1966 -
Heinlein Box Set
3 editions - first published in 1975 -
Tricks of the Trade
3 editions - first published in 1970 -
Grumbles from the grave
3 editions - first published in 1990 -
The Day After Tomorrow
3 editions - first published in 1951 -
Stranger in a Strange Land
3 editions - first published in 1961 -
Great Sf Heinlein Bxs
2 editions - first published in 1980 -
Citizen of the Galaxy
2 editions - first published in 1994 -
Revolt in 2100 & Methuselah's Children
2 editions - first published in 1998 -
The best of Robert Heinlein
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
Green Hills of Earth and Space Jockey
2 editions - first published in 1987 -
Starship
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Job, a comedy of justice: [fantasticheskiĭ roman]
2 editions - first published in 1984 -
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
2 editions - first published in 1980 -
Waldo: Genius in Orbit
2 editions - first published in 1950 -
The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein
2 editions - first published in 1999 -
Tramp royale
2 editions - first published in 1992 -
Von Stern zu Stern
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Au-delà du crépuscule, ou, La vie et les amours de Maureen Johnson
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Stranger in A Strange Land, Part 1 of 2
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Forastero En Tierra Extrana
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Tunnel in the sky
1 edition - first published in 1955 -
Podkayne of Mars (Digest Size)
1 edition - first published in 2008 -
Green Hills of Earth and Gentlemen Be Seated (Cassette)(CP 1526)
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
I figli di Matusalemme
1 edition - first published in 2008 -
Zweimal Pluto und zurück
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Tiempo Para Amar
1 edition -
Fremder in einer fremden Welt: science fiction Roman
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Stranger in a Strange Land
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
Ordeal in Space
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Life Line
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Great Science Fiction of Robert Heinlein
1 edition - first published in 1979 -
Puerta Al Verano/ the Door into the Summer (Puzzle)
1 edition - first published in 2005 -
Dverʹ v leto: sbornik nauchno-fantasticheskikh proizvedeniĭ
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Amos De Titeres
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Freitag
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN 4 IN 1 BOX SET: THE PUPPER MASTERS, WALDO & MAGIC, DOUBLE STAR, THE DOOR INTO SUIMMER (Classic Science Fiction)
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Methusalems Kinder. Die komplette Future History
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Kosmicheskiĭ kadet: Zvezdnyĭ zverʹ ; Dverʹ v leto
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Farnham's Hold
1 edition -
Project Moonbase and Others: The Scripts of Robert A. Heinlein, Vol. 1
1 edition - first published in 2008 -
Tenderfoot in Space
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Robert Heinlein B--Puppet Masters
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Forrestal Lecture at the US Naval Academy (CD)
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Silent Thunder / Universe (Tor Double)
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Kosmicheskiĭ patrulʹ: sbornik naucho-fantasticheskikh proizvedeniĭ
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
The Day After Tomorrow (Orig. Title: Sixth Column)
1 edition - first published in 1951 -
Robert A. Heinlein's The Virginia Edition: A Sample of the Series
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
Zwischen den Planeten
1 edition - first published in 2003

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