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The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein: Volume II

Robert A. Heinlein

First published 2011
Series The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein #2
Publisher The Virginia Edition
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages v+463
ISBN 9781897350430


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, of from print material when not found in the Collection.
Full number line on copyright page.
Notes follow each Heinlein item.
Most of the content has either never been published before or was published in non-genre publications like newspapers.
"Muster Notes" is the U.S. Naval Academy Class of '29 newsletter.
"Entotic" is the Australian pronunciation of "Antarctic" and is an account of the Heinleins' trip there. The ISBN of this volume was also assigned to a later one in the series: The Heinlein Letters: Volume III.

Page Title Author(s) Type
About the Series (The Virginia Edition) uncredited Essay
1 Forrestal Lecture Robert A. Heinlein Essay
41 Publisher's Weekly Interview Alfred Bester & Robert A. Heinlein Interview
49 New Libertarian Notes Interviews Robert A. Heinlein J. Neil Schulman & Robert A. Heinlein Interview
107 Letter to LASFS (via Jerry Pournelle) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
111 1974 Muster Notes Robert A. Heinlein Essay
117 Letter to T. B. Buell about Fleet Admiral Ernest King, 3 October 1974 Robert A. Heinlein Essay
199 A U.S. Citizen Thinks about Canada Robert A. Heinlein Essay
211 Heinlein's Personal Library Catalog Robert A. Heinlein Essay
245 Liner Notes for Avalon Hill Starship Troopers Game Robert A. Heinlein Essay
251 Are You a Rare Blood? Robert A. Heinlein Essay
267 Liner Notes for "The Green Hills of Earth" (Caedmon LP) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
271 Liner Notes for "Gentlemen, Be Seated" (Caedmon LP) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
273 Letter: Tribute to Grand Master Jack Williamson Robert A. Heinlein Essay
279 Preliminary Notes toward a Handbook for Blood Drives Robert A. Heinlein Essay
301 Letter: Appreciation of Grand Master Clifford D. Simak Robert A. Heinlein Essay
307 Octagon Blood Drive Remarks Robert A. Heinlein Essay
313 1979 Muster Notes Robert A. Heinlein Essay
317 Some Applications of Space Technology for the Elderly & Handicapped Robert A. Heinlein Essay
333 Telephone Interview with Ben Bova Ben Bova & Robert A. Heinlein Interview
361 Open Letter Re L-5 Society Robert A. Heinlein Essay
367 Robert A. Heinlein David A. Truesdale & Robert A. Heinlein Interview
383 Letter (Survive Magazine) Robert A. Heinlein Essay
389 Japan and Communist China (Ginny's First Trip Report) Virginia Heinlein Essay
401 Letter to Jack Williamson, 29 April 1983 Robert A. Heinlein Essay
407 "Entotic" Virginia Heinlein Essay
417 The Rarest Blood Robert A. Heinlein Essay
421 Northwest Passage Trip Report Virginia Heinlein Essay
434 Letter Appeal for Stanford Hospital Robert A. Heinlein Essay
437 Agape and Eros: The Art of Theodore Sturgeon Robert A. Heinlein Essay
447 Citizen of the Universe: An Interview with Robert A. Heinlein Peter Heck & Robert A. Heinlein Interview
453 A Message to the Berkley Books Sales Force Concerning "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" Robert A. Heinlein Essay
462 Notes about the Text: (The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein: Volume II) uncredited Essay
i Introduction (The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein: Volume II) Robert James & William H. Patterson, Jr. Essay