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The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein: Volume I

Robert A. Heinlein

First published 2011
Series The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein #1
Publisher The Virginia Edition
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages v+622
ISBN 9781897350423

Available only as the entire edition, cost $1500.
Limited to 2000 copies. Numbered, leather-bound, silk marking ribbon. No dust jacket.
Text is transcribed from material in the UCSC Special Collection devoted to the Heinlein Archive.
Full number line on copyright page.
Notes follow each Heinlein item.
"Week-End Watch" is Heinlein's first known fiction, written for a shipboard writing contest on board the U.S.S. Lexington.
"Muster Notes" was the title of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of '29 newsletter.
Items published 2007-07-07 were in the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Souvenir Book.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
About the Series (The Virginia Edition) uncredited Essay
1 The Last Adventure Robert A. Heinlein Poem
7 Atlantis Robert A. Heinlein Poem
11 Untitled Portrait Sketch Robert Anson Heinlein & Sebastian Bach Perreault Essay
15 Week-End Watch Robert A. Heinlein Short Story
25 Writing for The Lexington Observer (extracts) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
35 1935 Muster Notes Robert A. Heinlein Essay
39 How to Write a Story Lyle Monroe Essay
45 Green Fire Lyle Monroe & John Taine Review
49 The Days of Creation Robert A. Heinlein & Willy Ley Review
55 Shells and Shooting Robert A. Heinlein & Willy Ley Review
61 Rockets: A Prelude to Space Travel Robert A. Heinlein & Willy Ley Review
67 Cockpit Canopies—Free-Blown Type—Thermal Stabilty—Evaluation of Robert A. Heinlein Essay
95 NAMC Memorandum Robert A. Heinlein Essay
105 Man in the Moon Robert A. Heinlein Essay
121 America's Maginot Line Robert A. Heinlein Essay
139 Dance Session Robert A. Heinlein Poem
143 The Journey of Death Robert A. Heinlein Essay
149 Rocket's Red Glare Leslyn M. Heinlein Essay
153 Death Song of a Wood's Colt Robert A. Heinlein Poem
157 Three Wise Mice Robert A. Heinlein Poem
161 Untitled Poem Fragment Robert A. Heinlein Poem
165 Brave New World Robert A. Heinlein Poem
169 Why Buy a Stone Ax? Robert A. Heinlein Essay
185 Some Day I Expect to Go to the Moon Robert A. Heinlein Essay
191 Letter (Inside Information) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
197 Flight Into the Future Robert A. Heinlein & Caleb B. Laning Essay
209 Tomorrow the Moon Robert A. Heinlein Essay
215 Saturday Evening Post Fillers Robert A. Heinlein Essay
219 On the Writing of Speculative Fiction Robert A. Heinlein Essay
229 System in the Sky Robert A. Heinlein & Caleb B. Laning Essay
245 1949 Muster Notes Robert A. Heinlein Essay
249 The Conquest of Space Robert A. Heinlein & Willy Ley & Chesley Bonestell Review
255 The Conquest of Space Robert A. Heinlein & Willy Ley & Chesley Bonestell Review
262 Sworn Statement of Robert A. Heinlein Concerning Robert Cornog Robert A. Heinlein Essay
269 Author! Author! Robert A. Heinlein Essay
277 The Historic Novel of the Future / Bet on the Future and Win Robert A. Heinlein Essay
283 Space Medicine: The Human Factor in Flights Beyond the Earth John P. Marbarger & Robert A. Heinlein Review
288 Space Medicine: The Human Factor in Flights Beyond the Earth Robert A. Heinlein & John P. Marbarger Review
293 Preface (Tomorrow, the Stars) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
303 Across the Space Frontier Robert A. Heinlein & Cornelius Ryan Review
309 Introduction (The Glory That Was) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
315 Ray Guns and Rocket Ships Robert A. Heinlein Essay
325 This, I Believe Robert A. Heinlein Essay
331 Introducing the Author: Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein Essay
339 Introduction (The Best from Startling Stories) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
343 A Method for Arranging All Fractions from Zero to One in a Single Sequence Robert A. Heinlein Essay
353 Current Biography Robert A. Heinlein Essay
361 Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults, and Virtues Robert A. Heinlein Essay
388 For Bob Heinlein Fritz Leiber Poem
389 Letter: Xenobiology (Science V124) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
395 Who Killed Science Fiction? Anonymous #1 Essay
401 Appointment in Space Robert A. Heinlein Essay
417 1962 Muster Notes Robert A. Heinlein Essay
421 If You Don't See It, Just Ask: Preview for Playboys Robert A. Heinlein Essay
445 The Happy Road to Science Fiction Robert A. Heinlein Essay
451 Science Fiction—The World of "What If—" Robert A. Heinlein Essay
459 Goldwater Radio Spots Robert A. Heinlein Essay
465 Draft for a Goldwater Speech Robert A. Heinlein Essay
475 Letter-Article for Clifford Simak Robert A. Heinlein Essay
481 Letter (Harris Public Library Children's Literary Magazine) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
487 Accession Notes (University Library, UCSC) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
535 Statement [After Apollo 11 Moon Landing] Robert A. Heinlein Essay
541 Untitled [and unpublished] Playboy Interview Frank Robinson & Robert A. Heinlein Interview
603 Letter Interview with Robert A. Heinlein Joe Sencenbaugh & Robert A. Heinlein Interview
613 Foreword (Beyond Jupiter: The Worlds of the Grand Tour) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
i Introduction (The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein: Volume I) Robert James & William H. Patterson, Jr. Essay