Expanded Universe (Heinlein)

The full title of this 1980 collection of stories and essays by Robert A. Heinlein is Expanded Universe, The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein. The trade paperback 1981 edition lists the subtitle under other Heinlein books as More Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein because the contents subsume the 1966 Ace Books collection, The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein. The current volume is dedicated to William Targ.

The book collects many short stories and essays, with a foreword for each. They are:

  • "Life-Line" (*)
  • "Successful Operation"
  • "Blowups Happen" (*)
  • "Solution Unsatisfactory" (*)
  • "The Last Days of the United States"
  • "How to Be a Survivor"
  • "Pie from the Sky"
  • "They Do It with Mirrors"
  • "Free Men" (*)
  • "No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying"
  • "A Bathroom of Her Own"
  • "On the Slopes of Vesuvius"
  • "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon"
  • "Pandora's Box" (*)
  • "Where To?" (1950, 1965, 1980)
  • "Cliff and the Calories"
  • "Ray Guns and Rocket Ships"
  • "The Third Millennium Opens"
  • "Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?"
  • "Pravda Means Truth"
  • "Inside Intourist"
  • "Searchlight" (*)
  • "The Pragmatics of Patriotism"
  • "Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You"
  • "Larger than Life", a memoir in tribute to E. E. "Doc" Smith
  • "Spinoff"
  • "The Happy Days Ahead"
The six items marked with (*) appeared in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein.
Robert A. Heinlein novels, major collections, and non-fiction works
Future History
& World as Myth
  • The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
  • The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
  • Revolt in 2100 (1953)
  • Orphans of the Sky (1963)
  • Methuselah's Children (1958)
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
  • The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
  • Time Enough for Love (1973)
  • The Number of the Beast (1980)
  • The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
  • To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
Scribner's
juveniles
  • Rocket Ship Galileo (1947)
  • Space Cadet (1948)
  • Red Planet (1949)
  • Farmer in the Sky (1950)
  • Between Planets (1951)
  • The Rolling Stones (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)
Other novels
  • For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939/2003)
  • Beyond This Horizon (1948)
  • Sixth Column (1949)
  • The Puppet Masters (1951)
  • Double Star (1956)
  • The Door into Summer (1957)
  • Starship Troopers (1959)
  • Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
  • Podkayne of Mars (1963)
  • Glory Road (1963)
  • Farnham's Freehold (1964)
  • I Will Fear No Evil (1970)
  • Friday (1982)
  • Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
  • Variable Star (1955/2006)
Non-fiction
  • Take Back Your Government (1946/1992)
  • Tramp Royale (1954/1992)
  • Expanded Universe (1980)
  • Grumbles from the Grave (1989)
Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Collections
  • The Past Through Tomorrow
  • The Man Who Sold the Moon
  • The Green Hills of Earth
  • Orphans of the Sky
  • Revolt in 2100
  • The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein
  • Expanded Universe
Short
stories
  • "Life-Line"
  • "Let There Be Light"
  • "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"
  • "Searchlight"
  • "Ordeal in Space"
  • "The Green Hills of Earth"
  • "Logic of Empire"
  • "The Menace from Earth"
  • "If This Goes On—"
  • "Coventry"
  • "Misfit"
  • "Universe"
  • "Common Sense"
Novels
  • Methuselah's Children
  • Time Enough for Love
  • To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • The Number of the Beast

Famous quotes containing the words expanded and/or universe:

    “The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)