02493cam a2200325 i 4500 551461586 TxAuBib 20170530120000.0 000814t20001987||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780739410516 0739410512 (OCoLC)44781963 VSB eng VSB OCLCQ OCLCG OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO SGB KRX TxAuBib rda Heinlein, Robert A, 1907-1988, (Robert Anson.) The past through tomorrow : Future history stories : Life-line / The roads must roll / Blowups happen / The man who sold the moon / Delilah and the space-rigger / Space jockey / Requiem / The long watch / Gentlemen, be seated / The black pits of Luna / 'It's great to be back!' / '-We also walk dogs' / Searc / Robert A. Heinlein. hardcover. U.S.A. : Science Fiction Book Club, [2000] ©1987. 785 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Future history series Introduction by Damon Knight. Life-line; The Roads Must Roll; Blowups Happen; The Man Who Sold the Moon; Delilah and the Spacerigger; Space Jockey; Requiem; The Long Watch; Gentlemen, Be Seated; The Black Pits of Luna; "It's Great to Be Back!"; "We Also Walk Dogs"; Searchlight; Ordeal in Space; The Green Hills of Earth; Logic of Empire; The Menace from Earth; "If This Goes On ... "; Conventry; Misfit; and Methuselah's Children. This connected series of stories does not pretend to be prophetic. It is a history, not of the future, but of a future -- an alternate-probability world which is logically self-consistent, dramatic, and recognizably an offshoot of our own past. The stories really do not form a linear series at all -- they are more like a pyramid, in which ealier stories provide a solid base for later ones to rest on. Partly because of this pyramiding of background and partly because of the author's broad knowledge, Heinlein's readers find themselves in a world which is clearly our own, only projected a few years or decades into the future. As for the still-unfolding future, there are guideposts and warnings here. Heinlein continually reminds us that history is a process, not something dead and embalmed in textbooks. - Introduction. 20170530. Science fiction. Future history series.