The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) was productive during a writing career that spanned the last 49 years of his life. This includes 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections published during his life. Four films, two TV series, several episodes of a radio series, at least two songs ("Hijack" by Jefferson Starship and "Cool Green Hills of Earth" by Southwind) and a board game derive more or less directly from his work. He wrote the screenplay for Destination Moon (1950). Heinlein also edited an anthology of other writers' science fiction short stories.
Four collections, three non-fiction books and two poems have been published posthumously, in addition to three novels, one of which was co-written with Spider Robinson.
Known pseudonyms include Anson MacDonald (seven times), Lyle Monroe (seven), John Riverside (one), Caleb Saunders (one), and Simon York (one). All the works originally attributed to MacDonald, Saunders, Riverside and York, and many of the works originally attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.
Novels
Novels marked with * are part of Scribner's "juvenile" series. Those marked with † are posthumous releases.
Year Title Notes Awards and nominations 1947 Rocket Ship Galileo * 1948 Beyond This Horizon Initially serialized in 1942, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald2018 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novel): Won 1948 Space Cadet * 1949 Red Planet * 1996 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame): Won 1949 Sixth Column a.k.a. The Day After Tomorrow / Initially serialized in 1941, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald. 1950 Farmer in the Sky * Initially serialized in a condensed version in Boys' Life magazine as Satellite Scout 2001 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novel): Won 1951 Between Planets * 1951 The Puppet Masters Re-published posthumously with excisions restored, 1990 1952 The Rolling Stones * a.k.a. Space Family Stone 2006 Audie Awards (Science Fiction): Nominated 1953 Starman Jones * 1954 The Star Beast * 2008 Audie Awards (Audio Drama): Nominated 1955 Tunnel in the Sky * 1956 Double Star 1956 Hugo Award (Novel): Won 1987 Locus Award (All-Time Best SF Novel): Nominated 1956 Time for the Stars * 1957 Citizen of the Galaxy * 2022 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame): Won 1957 The Door into Summer 1975 Locus Award (All-Time Best Novel): Nominated 1987 Locus Award (All-Time Best SF Novel): Nominated 1958Have Space Suit—Will Travel * 1959 Hugo Award (Novel): Nominated 1961 Sequoyah Book Award (Children): Won
2007 BSFA Award (Fiftieth Anniversary Award: Best Novel of 1958): Nominated 1958 Methuselah's ChildrenOriginally a serialized novella in 19411997 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award): Won 1959 Starship Troopers 1960 Hugo Award (Novel): Won 1975 Locus Award (All-Time Best Novel): Nominated
1987 Locus Award (All-Time Best SF Novel): Nominated 1961 Stranger in a Strange LandReprinted at the original greater length in 19911962 Hugo Award (Novel): Won 1975 Locus Award (All-Time Best Novel): Nominated
1987 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award): Won
1987 Locus Award (All-Time Best SF Novel): Nominated
1990 Science Fiction Book Club's Book of the Year Award: Nominated 1963 Podkayne of Mars 2010 Audie Awards (Science Fiction): Nominated 1963 Orphans of the Sky Fix-up novel comprising the novellas Universe and Common Sense, both originally published in 1941 1963 Glory Road 1964 Hugo Award (Novel): Nominated 1987 Locus Award (All-Time Best Fantasy Novel): Nominated 1964 Farnham's Freehold 1966 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 1967 Hugo Award (Novel): Won 1975 Locus Award (All-Time Best Novel): Nominated
1967 Nebula Award (Novel): Nominated
1983 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award): Won
1987 Locus Award (All-Time Best SF Novel): Nominated 1970 I Will Fear No Evil 1971 Locus Award (Novel): Nominated 1978 Seiun Award (Translated Long Work): Won 1973 Time Enough for Love 1974 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated 1974 Hugo Award (Novel): Nominated
1974 Nebula Award (Novel): Nominated
1987 Locus Award (All-Time Best SF Novel): Nominated
1998 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award): Won 1980 The Number of the Beast 1981 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated 1982 Friday 1983 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated 1983 Hugo Award (Novel): Nominated
1983 Nebula Award (Novel): Nominated
1983 Prometheus Award (Novel): Nominated 1984 Job: A Comedy of Justice 1985 Hugo Award (Novel): Nominated 1985 Locus Award (Fantasy Novel): Won
1985 Nebula Award (Novel): Nominated 1985 The Cat Who Walks Through Walls 1986 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated 1987 To Sail Beyond the Sunset 1988 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated 1989 Prometheus Award (Novel): Nominated 2003 For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs † Written in 19382005 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated 2006 Variable Star † (with Spider Robinson; Heinlein's eight page outline written in 1955; Robinson's full novel from the outline appeared in 2006) 2020 The Pursuit of the Pankera † An alternate version of The Number of the Beast
Short fiction
"Future History" short fiction
Year Title Notes Awards and nominations 1939 Life-Line 1939 Misfit 1940 Let There Be Lightas Lyle Monroe 1940 The Roads Must Roll 2016 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novelette): Won 1940 Requiem 2003 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award): Won 2016 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Short Story): Nominated 1940 "If This Goes On—"First novel2016 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novella): Won 1940 Coventry 2016 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novella): Nominated 2017 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award): Won 1940 Blowups Happen 2016 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novelette): Nominated 1941Universe 1941—We Also Walk Dogsas Anson MacDonald 1941Common Sense 1941Methuselah's ChildrenLengthened and published as a novel in 1958 1941Logic of Empire 1947Space Jockey 1947It's Great to Be Back! 1947The Green Hills of Earth 1952 Analog Award (All-Time Best Book): 8th Place 1948Ordeal in Space 1948The Long Watch 1948Gentlemen, Be Seated! 1948The Black Pits of Luna 1949Delilah and the Space Rigger 1950 The Man Who Sold the Moon 1952 Analog Award (All-Time Best Book): 4th Place 2001 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novella): Won 1957The Menace from Earth 1962Searchlight
Other short speculative fiction All the works initially attributed to Anson MacDonald, Caleb Saunders, John Riverside and Simon York, and many of the works attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.
At Heinlein's insistence, the three Lyle Monroe stories marked with the symbol '§' were never reissued in a Heinlein anthology during his lifetime.
Year Title Notes Awards and nominations 1940 Magic, Inc.a.k.a. The Devil Makes the Law2016 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novella): Nominated 1940 Solution Unsatisfactoryas Anson MacDonald 1940 Successful Operation(a.k.a. Heil!) (as Lyle Monroe) 1941They 1941And He Built a Crooked House 1941By His Bootstrapsas Anson MacDonald 1941Lost Legacy(a.k.a. Lost Legion) (as Lyle Monroe) 1941Elsewhen(a.k.a. Elsewhere) (as Caleb Saunders) 1941Beyond Doubt §as Lyle Monroe with Elma Wentz 1942 The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoagas John Riverside2018 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novella): Nominated 1942 Waldoas Anson MacDonald2018 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novella): Won 1942 My Object All Sublime §as Lyle Monroe 1942 Goldfish Bowlas Anson MacDonald2018 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novelette): Nominated 1942 Pied Piper §as Lyle Monroe 1946 Free MenPublished in 19662023 Prometheus Award (Hall of Fame Award): Won 1947Jerry Was a Man 1947Water Is for Washing 1947Columbus Was a Dopeas Lyle Monroe 1947On the Slopes of Vesuvius 1948Our Fair City 1949Gulf 1949Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon 1950Destination Moon 1952The Year of the Jackpot 1953Project Nightmare 1953Sky Lift 1956 A Tenderfoot in SpaceSerialized in 1958 1957 The Man Who Traveled in Elephantsa.k.a. The Elephant Circuit 1959'—All You Zombies—' 1979 Balrog Awards (Short Fiction): Nominated 1975Field Defects: Memo from a CyborgWritten in 1975, published in 2010
Other short fiction
Year Title Notes Awards and nominations 1946 A Bathroom of Her Own 1947 They Do It with Mirrorsas Simon York 1947 No Bands Playing, No Flags FlyingWritten in 1947, published in 1973 1949 Poor Daddy 1950 Cliff and the Calories 1951 The Bulletin Board
Collections
Year Title Notes Awards and nominations 1950The Man Who Sold the Moon 1950Waldo & Magic, Inc. 1951The Green Hills of Earth 1953Assignment in Eternity 1953Revolt in 2100Contains: If this goes on--, Coventry & Misfit 1958The Robert Heinlein Omnibus 1959The Menace from Earth 1959 The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoaga.k.a. 6 X H 1965 Three by HeinleinContains: The Puppet Masters, Waldo & Magic, Inc. 1966A Robert Heinlein Omnibus 1966The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein 1967 The Past Through TomorrowAlmost-complete Future History collection, missing Let There Be Light, Universe & Common Sense 1973The Best of Robert A. Heinlein 1980Expanded Universe 1981 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated 1980A Heinlein Trio Omnibus of The Puppet Masters, Double Star & The Door into Summer 1999 The Fantasies of Robert A. HeinleinOmnibus of Waldo & Magic, Inc. and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag 2003 Infinite PossibilitiesOmnibus of Tunnel in the Sky, Time for the Stars & Citizen of the Galaxy 2004 To the StarsOmnibus of Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones & The Star Beast 2005 Off the Main SequenceShort stories including three never before collected 2005 Four FrontiersOmnibus of Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet & Farmer in the Sky 2006 Outward BoundOmnibus of Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Starship Troopers & Podkayne of Mars 2008 Project Moonbase and OthersCollection of screenplays Complete works
The Virginia Edition, a 46-volume hardcover collection of all of Robert Heinlein's stories, novels, and nonfiction writing, plus a selection of his personal correspondence, was announced by Meisha Merlin Publishing in April 2005; the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust (which now owns the Heinlein copyrights) instigated the project. Meisha Merlin went out of business in May 2007 after producing six volumes: I Will Fear No Evil, Time Enough for Love, Starship Troopers, For Us, the Living, The Door into Summer, and Double Star. The Heinlein Prize Trust then decided to publish the edition itself, having formed the Virginia Edition Publishing Co. for this purpose. As was true for the Meisha Merlin effort, individual volumes are not offered; subscribers must purchase the entire 46-volume set. The final five volumes (including two volumes of screenwriting, both produced and unproduced) were shipped to subscribers in June 2012. In July 2007, the Heinlein Prize Trust opened the online Heinlein Archives, which allows people to purchase and download items from the Heinlein Archive previously stored at the University of California-Santa Cruz. The Trust makes grants available to those using the archives for scholarly purposes.
Poems Year Title Notes Awards and nominations 1946 "Dance Session"Love poem 1946 "The Witch's Daughters" 2003"The Green Hills of Earth" 2007"Atlantis" 2007"The Last Adventure" 2011 "Brave New World" 2011 "Death Song of a Wood's Colt"This poem is used 14 years after it was written in Stranger in a Strange Land with one line changed: instead of "My sandy burning eyeballs, as the light within them dims" of the original, Stranger uses, "sanded burning eyeballs, as light within them dims." 2011 "Three Wise Mice" 2011 "Untitled Poem Fragment"
Foreword
Year Title Notes Awards and nominations 1952Tomorrow, the StarsAnthology of stories by 14 authors selected by Frederik Pohl and Judith Merril, foreword by Heinlein who got his name on the cover.
Nonfiction