[Read by Spider Robinson]
This collection of Heinlein stories features ''All You Zombies -- ,'' which is the basis for the movie Predestination starring Ethan Hawke.
This collection from Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose origins--and relation to the young man--are more complex and stranger than the Ouroboros ring on the barkeep's finger. In ''The Man Who Traveled in Elephants'' --one of both Heinlein and Spider Robinson's all-time favorite stories-- we join a former traveling salesman on a bus. The man and his wife had once traveled with a host of imaginary animals searching for places to sell elephants. ''They-'' takes listeners inside a mental institution, where a man suffering from delusions has been confined. In ''Our Fair City'', a parking attendant named Pappy, a sentient whirlwind named Kitten, and a crusading reporter named Pete aim to take down their corrupt city government. Lastly, in ''-And He Built a Crooked House,'' a clever architect designs a house in the shape of the shadow of a tesseract, but it collapses through the fourth dimension when an earthquake shakes it into a more stable form.
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About the Author:
ROBERT ANSON HEINLEIN (1907-1988) was born in Missouri. He served five years in the US Navy and then attended graduate classes in mathematics and physics at UCLA. After a variety of jobs, he began to write science fiction in 1939. He is a four-time winner of the Hugo Award and a recipient of three Retro Hugos, and in 1975 he was named the first recipient of the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement. Several of his books were New York Times bestsellers, and his worldwide bestsellers have been translated into twenty-two languages.
Review:
''There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein.'' --Dean Koontz, award-winning author
''Heinlein wears imagination as though it were his private suit of clothes.'' --New York Times
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1482949563
- ISBN 13 9781482949568
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages3
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