Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988) took a variety of jobs before beginning to write science fiction in 1939. He became the dominant science fiction writer of the modern era, a writer whose influence on the field was immense. He won science fiction’s Hugo Award for best novel seven times, and several of his books were New York Times bestsellers. In 1975 he received the first Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement. 

All Books By Robert A. Heinlein

“All You Zombies–“
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“All You Zombies–“
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Spider Robinson
  • Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (4664 ratings)
(4664 ratings)
Featuring “All You Zombies–,“ the basis for the movie Predestination 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... Read more
Assignment in Eternity
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Assignment in Eternity
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (3542 ratings)
(3542 ratings)
Two short novels Robert A. Heinlein is widely and justly regarded as the greatest practitioner of the art of science fiction who has ever lived. Here are two of his greatest short novels: Gulf In which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed
Between Planets
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Between Planets
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Andrew Eiden
  • Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (4506 ratings)
(4506 ratings)
Don Harvey is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation–yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory between planets. When his... Read more
Citizen of the Galaxy
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Citizen of the Galaxy
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (14295 ratings)
(14295 ratings)
In a distant galaxy of colonized planets, the atrocity of slavery is alive and well. Young Thorby was just another bedraggled orphan boy sold at auction, but his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be. Adopting Thorby as his... Read more
Double Star
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Double Star
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (19433 ratings)
(19433 ratings)
Every stand-in dreamed of the starring role–but what actor would risk his life for the chance? One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Then a... Read more
Expanded Universe, Vol. 1
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Expanded Universe, Vol. 1
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (9 ratings)
(9 ratings)
Robert A. Heinlein has been hailed as one of the most forward-thinking science fiction writers of all time, and Expanded Universe (presented in two volumes) offers the perfect collection of his works to provide listeners with true insights into his... Read more
Expanded Universe, Vol. 2
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Expanded Universe, Vol. 2
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (5 ratings)
(5 ratings)
For the millions of Heinlein fans around the world comes a guided tour through the thoughts and insights of “one of the most influential writers in American literature” (New York Times Book Review). Robert A. Heinlein has been hailed as... Read more
Farnham’s Freehold
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Farnham’s Freehold
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (10617 ratings)
(10617 ratings)
Hugh Farnham is a practical, self-made man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. But when the apocalypse comes, something happens that he did not... Read more
For Us, the Living
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For Us, the Living
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
  • Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (2797 ratings)
(2797 ratings)
From Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name. July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the... Read more
Friday
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Friday
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Hillary Huber
  • Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (25521 ratings)
(25521 ratings)
Engineered from the finest genes and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, sharing only a bizarrely... Read more
Glory Road
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Glory Road
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (11423 ratings)
(11423 ratings)
E. C. “Scar” Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn’t given up his habit of scanning the personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: Are you a... Read more
Have Space Suit–Will Travel
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Have Space Suit–Will Travel
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Mark Turetsky
  • Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (26885 ratings)
(26885 ratings)
From the mind of the storyteller who has captured the imagination of readers from around the world and across generations comes this classic work of science fiction. First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the... Read more
I Will Fear No Evil
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I Will Fear No Evil
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Anthony Heald
  • Length: 18 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (10617 ratings)
(10617 ratings)
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. Johann Sebastian Bach... Read more
Job
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Job
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Richard Powers
  • Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (17017 ratings)
(17017 ratings)
After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same. Now called Alec Graham, he is in the middle of an affair with his stewardess, Margrethe, when natural disasters begin plaguing them. First,... Read more
Orphans of the Sky
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Orphans of the Sky
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Graham Halstead
  • Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (8811 ratings)
(8811 ratings)
Lost in Space Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was just allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move,... Read more
Podkayne of Mars
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Podkayne of Mars
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Emily Janice Card
  • Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (7393 ratings)
(7393 ratings)
From the author of Friday and Rocketship Galileo comes this classic tale featuring the grand master of science fiction’s most remarkable heroine. Podkayne Fries, a smart and determined maid of Mars, has just one goal in life: to become the... Read more
Podkayne of Mars
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Podkayne of Mars
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Soneela Nankani
  • Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (7393 ratings)
(7393 ratings)
A tale beloved by many fans of Robert A. Heinlein, Podkayne of Mars tells the story of a young Marswoman and her interplanetary adventures with her uncle and her genius brother. Told largely through Podkayne’s diaries, the story details her... Read more
Red Planet
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Red Planet
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Zach Villa
  • Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (8378 ratings)
(8378 ratings)
Jim Marlowe and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis are only allowed to travel so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tunes into a treacherous plot that threatens all the colonists on Mars, and it sets Jim off on a terrifying adventure that... Read more
Rocket Ship Galileo
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Rocket Ship Galileo
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Spider Robinson
  • Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2006
  • Language: English
  • (6672 ratings)
(6672 ratings)
From the grand master of science fiction comes this classic story about pioneers at the dawn of space exploration. Ross Jenkins, Art Mueller, and Morris Abrams are not your average high schools students. While other kids are cruising around in their... Read more
Sixth Column
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Sixth Column
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (4000 ratings)
(4000 ratings)
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 to a dictatorial superpower bent... Read more
Starman Jones
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Starman Jones
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Richard Powers
  • Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (7053 ratings)
(7053 ratings)
The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the arcane Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him... Read more
Starship Troopers
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Starship Troopers
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Lloyd James
  • Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 1997
  • Language: English
  • (195972 ratings)
(195972 ratings)
In one of Heinlein’s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit in a future world is sent through the toughest boot camp in the Universe to join the Terran Mobile Infantry in battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy. Juan Rico signed... Read more
Stranger in a Strange Land
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Stranger in a Strange Land
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Christopher Hurt
  • Length: 16 hours 17 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 1996
  • Language: English
  • (284259 ratings)
(284259 ratings)
Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with “psi” powers–telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation,... Read more
The Cat Who Walks through Walls
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The Cat Who Walks through Walls
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (21803 ratings)
(21803 ratings)
Robert A. Heinlein has written some of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time, including the beloved classic Stranger in a Strange Land. Now, in The Cat Who Walks through Walls, he creates his most compelling character ever: Dr. Richard... Read more
The Green Hills of Earth
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The Green Hills of Earth
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2006
  • Language: English
  • (7774 ratings)
(7774 ratings)
We pray for one last landingOn the globe that gave us birth;Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skiesAnd the cool, green hills of Earth. The Green Hills of Earthis a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held... Read more
The Menace from Earth, and Other Stories
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The Menace from Earth, and Other Stories
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Rob McQuay
  • Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 1997
  • Language: English
  • (12 ratings)
(12 ratings)
From a master of science fiction comes eight startling stories of time and space. In “The Year of the Jackpot,” a statistician charts a curve of unusual happenings throughout the earth, only to find that his facts and figures prove the... Read more
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Lloyd James
  • Length: 14 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2000
  • Language: English
  • (111127 ratings)
(111127 ratings)
Revolution is brewing on twenty-first-century Luna, a moon-based penal colony where oppressed “Loonies” are being exploited by a harsh Authority that controls it from Earth. Against all odds, a ragtag collection of dissidents has banded... Read more
The Number of the Beast
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The Number of the Beast
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
  • Length: 21 hours 29 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (10666 ratings)
(10666 ratings)
The wickedest, most wonderful science fiction story ever created in our—or any—time Anything can begin at a party in California—and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction. When four supremely... Read more
The Puppet Masters
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The Puppet Masters
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (29647 ratings)
(29647 ratings)
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed. Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the US government were on the scene... Read more
The Pursuit of the Pankera
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The Pursuit of the Pankera
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: James Patrick Cronin
  • Length: 21 hours 40 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (1120 ratings)
(1120 ratings)
The Pursuit of the Pankera is one of the most audacious experiments ever done in science fiction by the legendary author of the classic bestseller Starship Troopers. Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In... Read more
The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 7 hours 1 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (7035 ratings)
(7035 ratings)
One of Heinlein’s best-loved works, The Rolling Stones follows the rollicking adventures of the Stone family as they tour the solar system. It doesn’t seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it’s clear that... Read more
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: various narrators
  • Length: 28 hours 10 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (15 ratings)
(15 ratings)
The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964 This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of... Read more
The Star Beast
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The Star Beast
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Richard Powers
  • Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (6322 ratings)
(6322 ratings)
A compelling coming-of-age adventure from legendary SF master and multiple New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein Lummox has been the pet of the Stuart family for generations. With eight legs, a thick hide, and increasingly large size, Lummox... Read more
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
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The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (4916 ratings)
(4916 ratings)
Jonathan Hoag has a curious problem. Every evening, he finds a mysterious reddish substance under his fingernails, with no memory of how it got there. Jonathan hires the husband-and-wife detective team of Ted and Cynthia Randall to follow him during... Read more
Time Enough for Love
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Time Enough for Love
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 23 hours 30 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (867 ratings)
(867 ratings)
Time Enough for Love is the capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein’s famous Future History series. Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries, his... Read more
Time for the Stars
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Time for the Stars
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Barrett Whitener
  • Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (7342 ratings)
(7342 ratings)
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. There’s a problem though—because the spaceships are slower than... Read more
To Sail beyond the Sunset
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To Sail beyond the Sunset
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
  • Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (10643 ratings)
(10643 ratings)
Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to fans of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides... Read more
Variable Star
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Variable Star
  • By: Robert A. Heinlein
  • Narrator: Spider Robinson
  • Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2006
  • Language: English
  • (5168 ratings)
(5168 ratings)
Upon his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy of novels and short stories that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein’s masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a... Read more

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