List for me the Future History series of Robert Heinlein's please?

Question

I know The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is the first book... what are the others in order?

Thanks

Answer 1

Actually, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," although a Heinlein novel, is not part of the Future History series. The series, roughly in chronological order, is as follows:

Life-LIne
Let There Be Light
The Roads Must Roll
Blowups Happen
The Man Who Sold the Moon
Delilah and the Space Rigger
Space Jockey
Requiem
The Long Watch
Gentlemen, Be Seated
The Black Pits of Luna
It's Great to Be Back
--We Also Walk Dogs
Searchlight
Ordeal in Space
The Green Hills of Earth
Logic of Empire
The Menace from Earth
If This Goes On--
Coventry
Misfit
Methuselah's Children
Universe
Common Sense
Time Enough for Love
To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Answer 2

I think your best reference would be here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein

but http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/8611/rah.htm
also has some interesting data.

Heinlein published 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections during his life. Four films, two TV series, several episodes of a radio series, and a board game derive more or less directly from his work. He wrote a screenplay for one of the films. Heinlein edited an anthology of other writers' SF short stories.

Three non-fiction books and two poems have been published posthumously. One novel has been published posthumously and another was published in September 2006. Four collections have been published posthumously.


It is hard to say what is and is not part of the "future history" , but Jeffery S has done a really good list. He has several carachters that move from one book to another, and several locations too. (Luna City for one), so schollars debate the point. Personally I would say that "The Menace from Earth" was part of future history, but others might not. He didn't set out to make the Future History a series as such, it just sort of happened. He started using the same carachters and locations in different stories, and it sort of flowed from there.



Much of the Future History is short stories that he published back
in the 30s and 40s for John W. Campbell's magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Some folks but the Lazarus Long stories in the Future History. Personally I don't, but that is because I don't like the Lazarus Long stories.

That being said, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress actually isn't part of the future history. Its one of his best works, but it takes place in a different universe from the Future History. In the Future History Luna City is a very different place from TMIAHM.

In the late 40s he started in on what I consdier his best works, a series of teen novels for Scribners. These were targeted as Christmas gifts for baby boomer boys. They include Red Planet, Rocket Ship Galileo, Time for the Stars (a personal fav), Farmer in the Sky, Space Cadet and others. Starship Troopers was to be one of the these, but Scribners wouldn't publish it, so that broke his contract and he went of to write more adult books, including Stranger in a Strange Land and JOB and FRIDAY and TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE. I personally don't like them as much as his early stuff, but that is just my personal opinion and many folks will disagree with me.

Answer 3

here is a list of all his works

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/robert-heinlein/


Heinlein's Future History
Methuselah's Children (1941)
The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
Revolt in 2100 (1953)
Orphans of the Sky (1963)
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long (1973)
Revolt in 2100 / Methuselah's Children (omnibus) (1998)


I have read most of his works he is my favorite writer :-)
Victor C
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Answer 4

I didn't know there was any particular order. However, I can name quite a few of them--The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Stranger in a Strange Land, Friday, The Green Hills of Earth, Glory Road, Job: A Comedy of Justice, Methuselah's Children, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, The Past Through Tomorrow, to Sail Beyond the Sunset, Time Enough for Love...

Many of his books have characters that travel from book to book. I.e. Lazarous Long, Maureen, Dora, Pixel the cat, etc...

My favorite story is the story of Dora I believe it is in Time Enough for Love. It still makes me melancholy when I think about it. So sweet.