Robert A. Heinlein

One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe was—as usual—in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.

5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as 'Bugs.'

A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greats.

Travel to other planets is now a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity of finding habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent....

July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff....

This book contains 26 of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America....

A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls Hugh Farnham and his bomb shelter into a future world with no sign of other human beings....

Don Harvey is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own....

Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat....

After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same....

It’s six against six million in a brilliantly waged near-future war for nothing less than liberty and justice for all. The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion, and the United States has fallen....

Max finds himself adrift in a downtrodden land - until an unexpected, ultimate adventure carries him away as a stowaway aboard an intergalactic spaceship....

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.

As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything....

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing 11 great classics....

Jim Marlowe and his strange-looking Martian friend, Willis, are allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tunes in to a treacherous plot that threatens all the colonists on Mars....

Podkayne Fries, a smart and determined maid of Mars, has just one goal in life: to become the first female starship pilot and rise through the ranks to command deep-space explorations....

When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies....

Epic, entertaining, blasphemous, this is the most influential and controversial of Science Fiction novels....

Life isn't easy for the political dissidents and convicts who live in the scattered colonies that make up lunar civilisation. Everything is regulated strictly, efficiently and cheaply by a central supercomputer, HOLMES IV.