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Book Review of Off The Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories Of Robert A. Heinlein

Off The Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories Of Robert A. Heinlein
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The title tells it all--Heinlein also published tales, often under pseudonyms, outside his Future History series. This book, a Science Fiction Book Club exclusive, collects 27 of these stories published between 1940 through 1959.
Tales include
By His Bootstraps The Year of the Jackpot
Successful Operation Universe
Let There Be Light Free Men
On the Slopes of Vesuvius Columbus Was a Dope
And He Built a Crooked House Water is for Washing
Solution Unsatisfactory Gulf
All You Zombies Destination Moon
2 Juveniles--A Tenderfoot in Space &Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon.
3 previously uncollected stories--Beyond Doubt, My Object All Sublime, and Pied Piper.