[redrock]

"Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
-- Lazarus Long

Something that should be REQUIRED reading in every school.

redrock

[Luis Gonzalez]

'The Green Hills of Earth'

Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me
As they rove around the girth
Of our lovely mother planet
Of the cool, green hills of Earth.

We rot in the moulds of Venus,
We retch at her tainted breath.
Foul are her flooded jungles,
Crawling with unclean death.

[ --- the harsh bright soil of Luna ---
--- Saturn's rainbow rings ---
--- the frozen night of Titan --- ]

We've tried each spinning space mote
And reckoned its true worth:
Take us back again to the homes of men
On the cool, green hills of Earth.

The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.

Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet ---

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the friendly skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

[listenhillary]

Novels

Sixth Column *** Book publication 1949
Methuselah's Children *** Rewritten and expanded for book publication 1958
Beyond This Horizon *** Book publication 1948
The Puppet Masters *** 1951 Uncut version published 1990
Double Star *** 1956 Hugo award 1956
The Door into Summer *** 1957
Starship Troopers *** 1959 Hugo award 1959
Stranger in a Strange Land *** 1961 Hugo award 1961 Uncut version published 1990
Glory Road *** 1963 Hugo nominee
Farnham's Freehold *** 1964 1964
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress *** 1966 Hugo award 1966
I Will Fear No Evil *** 1970
Time Enough for Love *** 1973
The Number of the Beast *** 1979 1979
Friday *** 1982
Job: A Comedy of Justice *** 1984
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls *** 1985
To Sail Beyond the Sunset *** 1987

Juvenile Novels

Rocket Ship Galileo *** 1947
Space Cadet *** 1948
Red Planet *** 1949
Farmer in the Sky *** 1950
Between Planets *** 1951
The Rolling Stones *** 1952 1952
Starman Jones *** 1953
The Star Beast *** 1954
Tunnel in the Sky *** 1955
Time for the Stars *** 1956
Citizen of the Galaxy *** 1957
Have Space Suit - Will Travel *** 1958
Hugo nominee
Podkayne of Mars *** 1963 Uncut version published 1990

Selected Nonfiction

"The Discovery of the Future" (Third World Science Fiction Convention Guest of Honor Speech)*** 1941 In Requiem
How to Be a Politician *** 1946 Published as Take Back Your Government!, 1992
"On the Writing of Speculative Fiction" *** 1947
"Where To?" *** 1950, updated versions 1966, 1973 aka "Pandora's Box"
"Ray Guns and Rocket Ships" *** 1952 In EU
Tramp Royale *** 1954 Published 1993
"The Third Millenium Opens" *** Amazing Stories, Apr 1956 In EU
"Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues" *** 1957
"The Future Revisited" (Sixteenth World Science Fiction Convention Guest of Honor Speech) *** 1961 In Requiem
"Channel Markers" (James V. Forrestal Graduation Lecture, Annapolis) *** 1973 Long but incomplete transcript published in Analog, Jan 1974 Shorter transcript published in EU as "The Pragmatics of Patriotism" "Larger than Life" 1979 In EU
"Spinoff" *** Omni, Mar 1980 In EU
"The Happy Days Ahead" *** 1980 In EU
Interstitial commentary in Expanded Universe *** 1980
Grumbles from the Grave *** 1989 Virginia Heinlein, editor

Lots of stuff here I'd like to track down.

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