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The Green Hills of Earth (short story collection)

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Cover artist
  
Hubert Rogers

Publication date
  
1951

OCLC
  
1229091

Author
  
Robert A. Heinlein

Publisher
  
Shasta Publishers

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
256

Originally published
  
1951

Page count
  
256

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)

Genres
  
Short story, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Anthology, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Ordeal in Space, The Menace from Earth, The Man Who Sold the Moon, Misfit, Life‑Line

The Green Hills of Earth is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1951, although it includes short stories published as early as 1941. The stories are part of Heinlein's Future History. The title story is the tale of an old space mariner reflecting upon his planet of birth. According to an acknowledgement at the beginning of the book, the phrase "the green hills of Earth" is derived from a C. L. Moore story.

The short stories are as follows, in the order they appear in the book:

  • "Delilah and the Space Rigger" (1949; originally published in Blue Book)
  • "Space Jockey" (1947; originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)
  • "The Long Watch" (1949; originally published in The American Legion Magazine)
  • "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" (1948; originally published in Argosy Magazine)
  • "The Black Pits of Luna" (1948; originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)
  • "It's Great to Be Back!" (1947; originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)
  • "—We Also Walk Dogs" (1941; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)
  • "Ordeal in Space" (1948; originally published in Town & Country)
  • "The Green Hills of Earth" (1947; originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)
  • "Logic of Empire" (1941; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)

    • Reception

    Boucher and McComas described the collection as "an outstanding book", noting that the "slick" stories published in non-genre magazines included "classics in a new form". P. Schuyler Miller noted that most of the contents were "simple stories of human reactions".

    References

    The Green Hills of Earth (short story collection) Wikipedia
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