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rsdsharp

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9. I've been reading the lesser known Robert Heinlein short stories.
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 03:03 PM
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I’ve been reading Heinlein since I was 11. I’ve read everything he ever wrote — most of it many times over — novels and short stories both.

Most of his stories are from his famous The Past Through Tomorrow series, which fit on a time line, which has also been published. I’ve read those dozens of times. But there are some I’ve only read once or twice. Things like Searchlight, Skylift, The Man Who Traveled in Elephants and others.

A company in Ukraine published a number of these in stand alone “illustrated” Kindle versions. The illustrations have nothing to do with the stories; they’re basically cover art from sci fi magazines of the 40s and 50s, together with some snap shots of Heinlein and his third wife Virginia, pictures of them in their house in Colorado Springs which was featured in Popular Electonics in the 1950s, and the picture of Heinlein, L. Sprague deCamp and Isaac Asimov when they worked together in Philadelphia during World War II.

The publications themselves are cheesy, and have a lot of typos, but the stories themselves are great fun, and almost like finding Heinlein that’s new to me.

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