The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein

The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein

First-edition cover
Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Cover artist	Jack Gaughan
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1966
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	189

The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1966.

It includes an introduction entitled "Pandora's Box" that describes some of the difficulties in making predictions about the near future. Heinlein outlines some of his predictions that he made in 1949 (published 1952) and examines how well they stood up to about 15 years of progress in 1965. The prediction was originally published in Galaxy magazine, February 1952, Vol. 3, No. 5, under the title "Where to?" (pp. 13–22).

Following the introduction are five short stories:

• "Free Men" (written c. 1947, but first published in this collection, 1966)
• "Blowups Happen" (1940)
• "Searchlight" (1962)
• "Life-Line" (1939)
• "Solution Unsatisfactory" (1940)

In 1980, the entire contents of this collection, with an updated version of "Pandora's Box", were included in Heinlein's collection Expanded Universe.

External links

• The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database