Publication Order of Heinlein Juveniles Books
| Rocket Ship Galileo | 1947 |
| Space Cadet | 1948 |
| Red Planet | 1949 |
| Farmer in the Sky | 1950 |
| Between Planets | 1951 |
| The Rolling Stones / Space Family Stone | 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 |
Publication Order of Future History Books
| The Man Who Sold the Moon | 1950 |
| The Green Hills of Earth | 1951 |
| Revolt in 2100 | 1953 |
| Methuselah’s Children | 1958 |
| Orphans of the Sky | 1963 |
| The Past Through Tomorrow | 1967 |
Publication Order of World as Myth Books
| Time Enough for Love | 1973 |
| The Number of the Beast | 1980 |
| The Cat Who Walks Through Walls | 1985 |
| To Sail Beyond the Sunset | 1987 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Beyond This Horizon | 1948 |
| Sixth Column / The Day After Tomorrow | 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 |
| The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | 1966 |
| I Will Fear No Evil | 1970 |
| Friday | 1982 |
| Job: A Comedy of Justice | 1984 |
| For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs | 2003 |
| Variable Star (With: Spider Robinson) | 2006 |
| The Pursuit of the Pankera | 2020 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Waldo & Magic, Inc. | 1950 |
| Assignment in Eternity | 1953 |
| The Menace from Earth | 1959 |
| The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag / 6 X H | 1959 |
| The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein | 1966 |
| Expanded Universe | 1980 |
| Off the Main Sequence | 2005 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Grumbles from the Grave | 1989 |
| Take Back Your Government | 1992 |
| Tramp Royale | 1992 |
About Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein (1907 to 1988) was an American science fiction author, sometimes called the dean of science fiction writers and often grouped with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke as the “Big Three” of the genre. His best-known novels include “Starship Troopers”, “Stranger in a Strange Land” and “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”, and four of his novels won Hugo Awards.
Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, and grew up in Kansas City. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1929 and served as an officer on the aircraft carrier Lexington and the destroyer Roper before being discharged in 1934 with pulmonary tuberculosis. He worked on Upton Sinclair’s campaign for Governor of California and ran unsuccessfully for the State Assembly in 1938, then turned to writing to pay off his mortgage. His first published story, “Life-Line”, appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in August 1939.
Many of his early stories and novels share a setting he called the Future History, with a timeline of political, cultural and technological change. In 1947 “The Green Hills of Earth” ran in The Saturday Evening Post, taking him beyond the pulp magazines. The same year he began a run of juvenile novels for Charles Scribner’s Sons, published at the rate of one each autumn.
That arrangement ended when Scribner’s rejected “Starship Troopers” (1959) as too controversial. Putnam published the book, a coming-of-age story about duty, citizenship and the role of the military in society, and it won a Hugo. The other three Hugo winners were “Double Star”, “Stranger in a Strange Land” and “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”. In 1974 Heinlein was named the first Science Fiction Writers Grand Master.
After a serious illness in the early 1970s he wrote “Time Enough for Love” (1973). Critics treat most of his late novels as an offshoot of the Future History known as the World as Myth. He died on 8 May 1988.
Works published after his death include the letters collection “Grumbles from the Grave” (1989), “For Us, the Living” (2003), a novel written in 1938, and “The Pursuit of the Pankera” (2020), an alternate version of “The Number of the Beast”. Spider Robinson wrote “Variable Star” (2006) from a Heinlein outline. Film adaptations include “The Puppet Masters”, “Starship Troopers” and “Predestination”, which is based on the story “All You Zombies”.