The Bibliography
From juvenile adventures to Hugo-winning masterpieces. 25 novels, spanning 1947 to 1987.
Rocket Ship Galileo
Three teenagers build a rocket and travel to the moon, where they encounter an ancient lunar civilization and must defend themselves.
Red Planet
A teenage runaway and a Martian native boy journey across the red sands of Mars in a fight for survival.
Farmer in the Sky
A teenage homesteader travels to Ganymede to join his family on a new colony, facing the harsh realities of terraforming.
The Puppet Masters
Alien parasites invade Earth by attaching to human backs. A small team of unattached humans must stop the invasion.
The Rolling Stones
The Stone family buys a spaceship and roams the asteroid belt as independent traders.
The Star Beast
A teenager and his pet, a living starship named Lummox, are stranded on an alien planet.
Tunnel in the Sky
A survival test for a class of teenagers stranded on a distant planet turns deadly.
Time for the Stars
Twin brothers communicate telepathically across light-years as one leads a colony expedition.
Double Star
An unemployed actor impersonates a missing politician and finds himself holding the fate of the solar system.
The Door into Summer
A brilliant engineer is betrayed and thrown into cold sleep, waking in a future where he can set things right.
Citizen of the Galaxy
A boy sold into slavery escapes and rises through galactic society, learning what it means to be free.
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
A teenager wins a space suit and is abducted by aliens. He must survive and make first contact.
Starship Troopers
Johnny Rico joins the Mobile Infantry in a future where citizenship is earned through military service.
Stranger in a Strange Land
A human raised by Martians returns to Earth and challenges everything about human society, introducing "grokking."
Glory Road
An unemployed soldier answers a want ad and is drawn into a multiverse adventure to rescue a kidnapped princess.
Orphans of the Sky
Descendants of a lost generation ship, raised by a mutated "tripod" creature, must take control of their vessel and find a new world to call home.
Podkayne of Mars
A brilliant but naive young woman takes her twin genius nephews on a pleasure cruise to Mars, with disastrous and hilarious consequences. Published posthumously (completed by Virginia Heinlein).
Farnham's Freehold
A family survives a nuclear holocaust in their bunker, emerging into a world forever changed.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Lunar colonists, led by a handyman and a self-aware supercomputer, revolt against Earth's rule. "TANSTAAFL."
I Will Fear No Evil
A wealthy man's brain is transplanted into a young woman's body, navigating love, identity, and danger.
Time Enough for Love
Lazarus Long, the longest-lived human in history, tells the story of his many lives, loves, and adventures across centuries.
The Number of the Beast
Four people escape a tyrannical Earth and travel through alternate universes, meeting characters from other stories.
Friday
A genetically engineered agent works as a secret operative in a fractured, balkanized North America.
Job: A Comedy of Justice
A man is transported to parallel worlds where magic and religion shape reality, and must find his way home.
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
A veteran of the Lunar revolution returns to a changed Earth, uncovering a conspiracy threatening the peace.