Robert A. Heinlein, In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2

by William H. Patterson, Jr.

  “On the Slopes of Vesuvius.” Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Ordeal in Space.” Town & Country (May 1948). Future History story, collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  “Our Fair City.” Weird Tales (January 1949). Collected in The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959).

  “Pied Piper.” Astonishing Stories (March 1942 as by “Lyle Monroe”). Collected in Off the Main Sequence, ed. Andrew Wheeler (2005).

  “Poor Daddy” (a Puddin’ story). Calling All Girls (August 1949). Collected in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992).

  “Project Nightmare.” Amazing Stories (April/May 1953). Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

  “Requiem.” Astounding Science-Fiction (January 1940). Future History story, collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950).

  “The Roads Must Roll.” Astounding Science-Fiction (June 1940). Future History story, collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950).

  “Searchlight.” Scientific American (August 1962), Fortune (September 1962). Future History story, collected in The Past Through Tomorrow (1967).

  “Sky Lift.” Imagination (November 1953). Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

  “Solution Unsatisfactory.” Astounding Science-Fiction (May 1941 as by “Anson MacDonald”). Collected in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966).

  “Space Jockey.” The Saturday Evening Post (April 26, 1947). Future History story, collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951).

  “Successful Operation.” Futuria Fantasia, ed. Ray Bradbury (Spring 1940 as “Heil!” by “Lyle Monroe”). Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Tenderfoot in Space.” Boys’ Life (May, June, July 1958 in slightly condensed version). A variant of the manuscript version appeared in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992); paperback issues of Requiem have the original manuscript version.

  “They.” Unknown (April 1941). Collected in The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959).

  “They Do It With Mirrors.” Popular Detective (May 1947 as by “Simon York”). Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Universe.” Astounding Science-Fiction (May 1941). Future History story, published separately as a papaerback in 195? and collected in Orphans of the Sky (1963).

  “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.” Unknown Worlds (October 1942 as by “John Riverside”). Collected in The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959).

  “Waldo.” Astounding Science-Fiction (August 1942). Collected in Waldo and Magic, Inc. (1950).

  “Water Is for Washing.” Argosy (November 1947). Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

  “‘—We Also Walk Dogs’.” Astounding Science-Fiction (July 1941 as by “Anson MacDonald”). Collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951). “Weekend Watch” (written ca. 1930). Collected in the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Souvenir Book (2007) and in VE.

  “The Year of the Jackpot.” Galaxy Science Fiction (March 1952). Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

  SCREENPLAYS AND TELEPLAYS

  “Abbott and Costello Move to the Moon.” Film treatment co-written with Ben Babb.

  The Adventure of the Double Gambit (written 1963–64). Pilot M.O.W. screenplay for unproduced TV series titled Century XXII. Several varying titles for rewrites, including The Adventure of the “Gambit” and The Adventure of the Man Who Wasn’t There.

  The Black Pits of Luna (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  Century XXII. Series bible, letters between Heinlein and his producer and his agent. All published in the Virginia Edition.

  “—And He Built a Crooked House—” (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  Delilah and the Space-Rigger (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  Destination Moon (1950). Four feature film scripts, treatment, and miscellaneous material, including novelization, all of which are published in V E. The novelization, “Shooting ‘Destination Moon,’” and publicity materials were gathered into a book for Gregg Press in 1979 (Destination Moon, ed. David G. Hartwell).

  Home Sweet Home (written 1952). Exists only as a treatment for a teleplay, published in V E.

  “It’s Great to be Back!” (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  Life-Line (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  The Long Watch (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  Misfit (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  Nothing Ever Happens (1959).Unproduced script for abortive TV series, Crater Base One .

  Ordeal in Space (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  “Patterned Opening.” Teaser hook for The World Beyond.

  Project Moonbase (written 1953). Feature film; pilot script for The World Beyond as Ring Around the Moon.

  Project Nightmare (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  Requiem (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  Ring Around the Moon (written 1952). Pilot script M.O.W. for The World Beyond; see Project Moonbase.

  Space Jockey (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond.

  The Tourist (written 1952). Exists only as a treatment for a teleplay, in V E.

  “—We Also Walk Dogs” (written 1952). Teleplay for The World Beyond

  INTRODUCTIONS, ARTICLES, MISCELLANY

  “Accession Notes” (1967, 1968). Unpublished except in V E.

  Review: Across the Space Frontier, ed. Cornelius Ryan. Colorado Springs Free Press (September 28, 1952). Published as “The Ever-Widening Horizons.” Collected in V E.

  “Agape and Eros: The Art of Theodore Sturgeon.” Introduction to Sturgeon’s posthumous final novel, Godbody (1985).

  “All Aboard the Gemini.” Popular Mechanics (May 1963). Publication title of “Appointment in Space.” Heinlein’s original article published in V E.

  “America’s Maginot Line” (1946). Unpublished except in V E.

  “Analysis: Kokjohn book” (1974–75). Lost.

  “Analysis: The Mote in God’s Eye” (1973). Unpublished except collected in V E.

  “Analysis: Untitled” (1975). Pat Wilson book, My Three-Ring Circus & Kangaroo in the Kitchen. Lost.

  “Are You a Rare Blood?” Compton Yearbook (1976). Encyclopedia article. Unpublished except collected in V E.

  “Atlantis” (written ca. 1920–24). Juvenile poem. Unpublished except in the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Souvenir Book (2007).

  “Author! Author!” (1949). Biographical sketch written for a fanzine. Collected in V E.

  “Back of the Moon.” The Elks Magazine (January 1947). Half of Heinlein’s manuscript version, “The Man in the Moon.” Full manuscript in V E.

  Introduction to The Best From Startling Stories, ed. Sam Mines (1953).

  “Bet on the Future and Win.” Writer’s Digest (March 1950). One of two publication titles, the other being “The Historical Novel of the Future,” Bookshop News (February 1950).

  Foreword to Beyond Jupiter: The Worlds of the Grand Tour by Chesley Bonestell and Arthur C. Clarke. Collected in V E.

  “The Billion Dollar Eye” with Capt. Caleb B. Laning, USN. Collected in V E (as “System in the Sky”).

  Books. The Heinleins’ 1975 catalog of their personal library. Collected in V E.

  Message to the Berkley Sales Staff regarding The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985). Unpublished except in the Virginia Edition.

  “Channel Markers.” Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (January 1974). Full version of Heinlein’s 1973 Forrestal lecture. A slightly different restoration to Heinlein’s original text is published in the Virginia Edition as “Forrestal Lecture.”

  “Cockpit Canopies—Free Blown Type—Thermal Stability—Examination of” (1945). World War II Engineering Report collected in V E.

  “Concerning Stories Never Written.” Future History postscript (nonfiction) to Revolt in 2100 (1953).

  Review: The Conquest of Space by Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley. Saturday Review of
Literature (December 24, 1949 as “Baedeker of the Solar System”), Thrilling Wonder Stories (February 1950). Collected in V E.

  “Creativity Is Not Divisible” (1969). Guest of honor speech at Rio de Janeiro Movie Festival. Published in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992).

  Current Biography (March 1955). Entry for Robert A. Heinlein presumed written by him.

  “Dance Session” (July 1946). Verse. New Destinies: Volume VI (1988).

  Review: The Days of Creation by Willy Ley. Astounding Science-Fiction (May 1942). Collected in V E.

  “Death Song of a Wood’s Colt” (written 1946). Verse. A slightly revised version was incorporated into Stranger in a Strange Land. In V E.

  “Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You.” Compton Yearbook (1975).

  “The Discovery of the Future” (1941). Guest of Honor Speech at the Third World Science Fiction Convention (Denvention). Published as a chapbook by Forrest J. Ackerman; collected in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992).

  “Flight into the Future.” Collier’s (August 30, 1947). Co-written with Capt. Caleb B. Laning, USN. Collected in V E.

  “Forrestal Lecture” (1973). In the V E. See “Channel Markers.”

  “A Future History Essay.” SFWA Bulletin, vol. xiv, no. 3 (Fall 1979).

  Future History Chart. There are four versions of this chart extant: (1) Heinlein’s handwritten original; (2) the May 1941 Astounding Science-Fiction publication; (3) the revised 1950 version used as endpapers on the three Shasta books (The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth, and Revolt in 2100); and (4) a 1967 further revision for The Past Through Tomorrow. All four are collected together with the introductions of the two volumes of Future History stories in V E.

  “The Future Revisited” (1961). Guest of Honor Speech at the XIXth World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle. Collected in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992).

  Introduction to The Glory That Was by L. Sprague de Camp (1960). Written 1952.

  “The Good News of High Frontier.” Survive (September-October 1982). A shortened version of this letter was used as a Foreword to High Frontiers: A New National Strategy by Daniel O. Graham.

  Review: Green Fire by John Taine (1928). Collected in V E.

  Guest of Honor Speech at the XXXIVth World Science Fiction Convention, MidAmeriCon (1976). Collected in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992).

  “The Happy Days Ahead.” Expanded Universe (1980).

  “The Happy Road to Science Fiction.” McClurg’s Book News (1964). Collected in V E.

  “How to Be a Survivor: The Art of Staying Alive in the Atomic Age.” Expanded Universe (1980). Written 1946.

  “How to Write a Story” (1941). In condensed form in Spaceways (January 1941), ed. Harry Warner, Jr. The full manuscript version is collected in V E.

  “If You Don’t See It, Just Ask: A Preview for Playboys” (1963). Collected in the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Souvenir Book (2007) and a different edit in V E.

  “Inside Intourist.” Expanded Universe (1980). Written 1960.

  “It Does Not Pay a Prophet to be Too Specific.” Preface to The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950).

  “The Journey of Death” (written 1946). Collected in V E, together with Leslyn Heinlein reportage of the same event.

  “Larger Than Life: A Memoir in Tribute to Dr. Edward E. Smith.” MosCon I Program Book (1979). Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “The Last Adventure” (written ca. 1923). Verse. Published in the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Souvenir Book (2007).

  “The Last Days of the United States.” Expanded Universe (1980). Written 1946. .

  Letter-Appreciation of Grand Master Clifford D. Simak (1977). Collected in V E.

  Letter-Article for Clifford Simak (1965)

  Letter to LASFS on Its New Clubhouse (1973).

  “A Letter from Robert A. Heinlein.” Harris Children’s Library Magazine (1966). Collected in V E.

  Letter-Article for The Saturday Evening Post “Keeping Posted” department (1947).

  Letter Appeal for Stanford Hospital (1985).

  Letter-Appreciation of Jack Williamson (1983).

  Letter-Tribute to Grand Master Jack Williamson (1976).

  Letter-Article for Young Wings (1948).

  Liner notes for Avalon Hill Starship Troopers board game (1976).

  Liner notes for Caedmon recording of Leonard Nimoy reading “The Green Hills of Earth” and “Gentlemen, Be Seated” (1977).

  Untitled Portrait Sketch (1929). Graduating prose-portrait of Sebastian Bach Perreault (and of Heinlein by Perreault).

  “A Method for Arranging All Fractions from Zero to One in a Single Sequence” (1954). A reconstruction from Heinlein’s notes, published in V E.

  Muster Notes (1935, 1949, 1962, 1974, 1979). Short, autobiographical reports for his classmates.

  “The Names of the Beast.” Robert A. Heinlein by Leon Stover (1987). Collected in V E.

  Naval Air Materials Center Memorandum (1945).

  Octocon Blood Drive Remarks (1977). Published in V E.

  “On the Writing of Speculative Fiction.” Published in Of Worlds Beyond, ed. Arthur Lloyd Eshbach (1947).

  “An Open Letter from Robert A. Heinlein.” Destinies (August-September 1979). Collected as “Open Letter Re L-5 Society” in V E.

  “Pandora’s Box” / “Where To?” (written 1949). Published as “Where To?” in Galaxy Science Fiction (February 1952). Updated and collected as “Pandora’s Box” in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) and updated again for Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Pie from the Sky.” Expanded Universe (1980). Written 1946.

  Poetry Center Speech (1974). No transcript exists of this appearance at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA in New York City on May 29, 1974. Tom Collins, a fan who was present, reconstructed Heinlein’s talk from memory as the first part of “Tonight I Met Heinlein,” first published in Transient no. 31 (1974), and web-published by Alexei Panshin at http://www.panshin.com/critics/Showdown/tomcollins.html. Collins’s recollection is incorporated into an endnote in volume 2 of Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century.

  “The Pragmatics of Patriotism” (written 1973). Last half of the Forrestal Lecture, published in a number of places, including the four U.S. military service academies. Collected in Expanded Universe (1980). Also published by the alternate title of “The Politics of Patriotism.”

  “‘Pravda’ Means ‘Truth’.” The American Mercury (October 1960). Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Ray Guns and Rocket Ships.” Bulletin of the School Library Association of California (November 1952). A shorter version was published in Library Journal (July 1953) and collected in Expanded Universe (1980); the full manuscript and first publication version are published in V E.

  Review: Rockets: A Prelude to Space Travel by Willy Ley. Astounding Science-Fiction (July 1944). Reprinted in the Virginia Edition.

  The Saturday Evening Post Fillers (written 1949). For “The Perfect Squelch” department of The Saturday Evening Post. Published in V E.

  “Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues.” Lecture given 1957. Published in The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism (1959).

  “Science Fiction: The World of ‘What If’.” The Book of Knowledge (1964, extensively cut). Original uncut version published in V E.

  Review: Shells and Shooting by Willy Ley. Astounding Science-Fiction (November 1942). Not on table of contents. Collected in V E.

  “Shooting ‘Destination Moon’.” Astounding Science Fiction (July 1950). Collected in Destination Moon, ed. David G. Hartwell (1979).

  “Some Applications of Space Technology for the Elderly and the Handicapped.” Transcription of Heinlein’s Congressional Testimony (July 19, 1979). See “Spinoff.”

  Review: Space Medicine: The Human Factor in Flights Beyond the Earth, ed. John P. Marberger. The Denver Post (August 20, 1951), Galaxy Science Fiction (December 1951). Collected in V E.

  “Spinoff.” Omni (Marc
h 1980). Revised version of Heinlein’s Congressional Testimony. Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Sworn Statement of Robert A. Heinlein Concerning Robert Cornog.” (1949). Published in V E.

  “The Third Millennium Opens.” Amazing Stories (April 1956 as “As I See Tomorrow”). Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “This I Believe.” (1952). Address given on the radio show This I Believe. Reprinted in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992).

  “Three Wise Mice.” Verse. Published in VE.

  “Tomorrow the Moon” (1947). Original publication not located; Collected in V E.

  Introduction to Tomorrow, the Stars, ed. Robert A. Heinlein (1952).

  “A U.S. Citizen Thinks About Canada.” Canada and the World (1975). Collected in V E.

  “The Witch’s Daughters.” (1946) New Destinies: Volume VI (1988). Verse. Collected in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo (1992), and in the Virginia Edition.

  “Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?” Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph (April 12, 13, 18 1958). Reprinted in Expanded Universe (1980).

  “Why Buy a Stone Ax?” (1946). Published in VE.

  “Why I selected ‘The Green Hills of Earth’.” My Best Science Fiction Story, ed. Leo Marguiles and Oscar J. Friend (1949). Collected in VE.

  INDEX

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  Ace Books

  Ackerman, Forrest J.

  “The Adventure of the Man Who Wasn’t There” (RAH)

  “Agape and Eros: The Art of Theodore Sturgeon” (RAH)

  Agnew, Spiro T.

  Ahroon, Andy and Lou

  Air Force Academy

  “All Aboard the Gemini” (RAH)

  “All You Zombies” (RAH)

  Amazing Stories

  American Bookseller’s Association

  American Legion Magazine

  The American Mercury

  Analog