''Expanded Universe, The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein'' is a 1980 collection of stories and essays by American writer 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.
Contents
The book collects many short stories and essays, with a foreword for each. They are:
* ''Forward''
* " Life-Line" (*)
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Successful Operation
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Solution Unsatisfactory
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No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying
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English language
* ''Yes'' and ''no'' (responses)
* A determiner in noun phrases
Alphanumeric symbols
* No (kana), a letter/syllable in Japanese script
* No symbol, displayed � ...
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A Bathroom of Her Own
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Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon
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Pandora's Box
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Cliff and the Calories
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Searchlight
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The Pragmatics of Patriotism
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Larger than Life
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Film and television
*Larger than Life (film), ''Larger than Life'' (film), a 1996 American comedy
*''Larger than Life'', a 1998 short film by Ellory Elkayem
*''Carol Channing: Larger than Life'', a 2012 documentary a ...
NASA spinoff technologies
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The Happy Days Ahead
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:The six items marked with (*) appeared in ''The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein''.
When divided into two volumes, Volume 1 concludes with "On the Slopes of Vesuvius", and Volume 2 picks up with "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon".
Reception
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reviewed ''Expanded Universe'' in '' Ares Magazine'' #8 and commented that "''Expanded Universe'' is a book for the completist, the Heinlein devotee, and those interesting in seeing what Heinlein the man, rather than Heinlein the writer, actually believes."
Reviews
*Review by Spider Robinson (1980) in ''
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
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'', May 1980
*Review by Alexei Panshin (1981) in '' Omni'', April 1981
*Review by Joseph Nicholas (1981) in ''Paperback Inferno'', Volume 4, Number 6
*Review by Jack Williamson (1981) in '' Omni'', July 1981
*Review by Andrew Andrews (1981) in ''
Science Fiction Review
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'', Fall 1981
*Review by Dave Langford (1981) in '' Foundation'', #23 October 1981
*Review by Tom Easton (1981) in ''
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William Cl ...