Author: Robert A. Heinlein, ed
Publisher: Signet 1044
Year: 1953  Print: 1 Cover Price: $.25
Condition: Book Grades  Good/Reader
Genre:   Science Fiction/Short Stories
Pages: 207

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From the best and most entertaining stories, by the top writers in the science fiction field, Robert A. Heinlein has selected fourteen superb imaginative tales of the future, not one of which has ever before appeared in any anthology.
Thrilling, dramatic, humorous, ingenious - all the best adjectives can be called out to describe one or another of these stories, notable for their consistently high quality, and each concerning some aspect of man's hesitant progress toward outer space.
Ranging in time from the present to at least A.D. 2300, these narratives introduce such varied protagonists as a blind reporter who "sees" a Martian invasion; a college professor who accidentally discovers the world-shaking principle of dynamopsychism; a father who turns the tables on a ghost from the future; and a writer who handles public relations for two slick visitors from Betelgeuse.
Within these pages man makes friends with the inhabitants of the moon, and a space ship almost collides with the Sun; twenty-four humans are selected to guarantee the propagation of mankind; a laboratory-fabricated man is let loose in a large city; and a rainmaker wins his girl, although he ruins her mother's wash.
A scientist, former naval officer, and critic, Robert A. Heinlein, editor of this collection, is himself the author of some ten novels and many short stories. He also collaborated on the recent motion picture, Destination Moon.