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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
November, 2005

Pages
  
738 + xxiv

Originally published
  
November 2005

Page count
  
738

Publisher
  
Book of the Month Club

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

ISBN
  
1-58288-184-7

Author
  
Robert A. Heinlein

Genre
  
Science Fiction

OCLC
  
62596696

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Robert A Heinlein books, Science Fiction books

Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein (ISBN 1-58288-184-7) is a collection of 27 short stories by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, including three that were never previously collected in book form.

The title is a play on the astronomy concept off the main sequence.

Table of contents

  • "Introduction" by Greg Bear
  • "Foreword" by Michael Cassutt
  • "Editor's Note" by Andrew Wheeler
  • "Successful Operation" (as "Heil") by Lyle Monroe, Futuria Fantasia, April 1940
  • "Let There Be Light" by Lyle Monroe, Super Science Stories, May 1940
  • ""—And He Built a Crooked House—"", Astounding Stories, February 1941
  • "Beyond Doubt" by Lyle Monroe & Elma Wentz, Astonishing Stories, April 1941 (*)
  • "They", Unknown, April 1941
  • "Solution Unsatisfactory" by Anson MacDonald, Astounding, May 1941
  • "Universe", Astounding, May 1941
  • "Elsewhen" (as "Elsewhere") by Caleb Saunders, Astounding, September 1941
  • "Common Sense", Astounding, October 1941
  • "By His Bootstraps" by Anson MacDonald, Astounding, October 1941
  • "Lost Legacy" (as "Lost Legion") by Lyle Monroe, Super Science Stories, November 1941
  • "“My Object All Sublime”" by Lyle Monroe, Future Fiction, February 1942 (*)
  • "Goldfish Bowl" by Anson MacDonald, Astounding, March 1942
  • "Pied Piper" by Lyle Monroe, Astonishing Stories, March 1942 (*)
  • "Free Men", The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
  • "On the Slopes of Vesuvius", Expanded Universe, 1980
  • "Columbus Was a Dope", Startling Stories, May 1947
  • "Jerry Was a Man" (as "Jerry Is a Man"), Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1947
  • "Water Is for Washing", Argosy, November 1947
  • "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon", Boys' Life, April 1949
  • "Gulf", Astounding, November 1949
  • "Destination Moon", Short Stories, September 1950
  • "The Year of the Jackpot", Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1952
  • "Project Nightmare", Amazing Stories, April/May 1953
  • "Sky Lift", Imagination, November 1953
  • "Tenderfoot in Space", Boys' Life, May 1958
  • "All You Zombies—", Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1959
    • (*) Previously uncollected in a Heinlein collection

    References

    Off the Main Sequence Wikipedia
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