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Expanded Universe
	First Edition cover for Expanded Universe
Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, Nonfiction
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1980
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN	978-0441218837
LC Class	PS3515.E288 E96

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Expanded Universe, The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein is a 1980 collection of science fiction stories and essays by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, with a foreward for each.^[1] 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.

"Life-Line" (*)
"Successful Operation"
"Blowups Happen" (*)
"Solution Unsatisfactory" (*)
"The Last Days of the United States"
"How to Be a Survivor"
"Pie from the Sky"
"They Do It with Mirrors"
"Free Men" (*)
"No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying"
"A Bathroom of Her Own"
"On the Slopes of Vesuvius"
"Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon"
"Pandora's Box" (*)
"Where To?" (1950, 1965, 1980)
"Cliff and the Calories"
"Ray Guns and Rocket Ships"
"The Third Millennium Opens"
"Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?"
"Pravda Means Truth"
"Inside Intourist"
"Searchlight" (*)
"The Pragmatics of Patriotism"
"Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You"
"Larger than Life (Heinlein)|Larger than Life", a tribute to E. E. "Doc" Smith
"Spinoff", about NASA spinoff technologies
"The Happy Days Ahead"

Notes

Items marked with (*) appeared in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein.

Volumes

When divided into two volumes, Volume 1 concludes with "On the Slopes of Vesuvius",^[2] and Volume 2 picks up with "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon".^[3]

Reception

Greg Costikyan 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."^[4]

Reviews

Review by Spider Robinson (1980) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1980^[5]
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, Fall 1981
Review by Dave Langford (1981) in Foundation, #23 October 1981
Review by Tom Easton (1981) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 12, 1981

References

^ Don D'Ammassa (2005). Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Infobase Publishing. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-8160-5924-9.
^ Heinlein, Robert A. (January 21, 2015). Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume One. Phoenix Pick. ISBN 978-1612422381.
^ Heinlein, Robert A. (March 16, 2015). Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume Two. Phoenix Pick. ISBN 978-1612422404.
^ Costikyan, Greg (May 1981). "Books". Ares Magazine (8). Simulations Publications, Inc.: 34.
^ "Title: Expanded Universe: The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein".

External links

Expanded Universe title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Expanded Universe at Open Library

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[D'Ammassa2005-1] Don D'Ammassa (2005). Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Infobase Publishing. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-8160-5924-9.

[2] Heinlein, Robert A. (January 21, 2015). Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume One. Phoenix Pick. ISBN 978-1612422381.

[3] Heinlein, Robert A. (March 16, 2015). Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume Two. Phoenix Pick. ISBN 978-1612422404.

[Ares-4] Costikyan, Greg (May 1981). "Books". Ares Magazine (8). Simulations Publications, Inc.: 34.

[5] "Title: Expanded Universe: The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein".

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 ==Contents==
 * "[[Life-Line]]" (*)
-* "[[Successful Operation]]"
+* "Successful Operation"
 * "[[Blowups Happen]]" (*)
 * "[[Solution Unsatisfactory]]" (*)
@@ Line 48: / Line 48: @@
 * "[[Inside Intourist]]"
 * "[[Searchlight (short story)|Searchlight]]" (*)
-* "[[The Pragmatics of Patriotism]]"
+* "The Pragmatics of Patriotism"
 * "Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You"
-* "Larger than Life (Heinlein)|Larger than Life" (a tribute to [[E. E. Smith|E. E. "Doc" Smith]])
+* "Larger than Life (Heinlein)|Larger than Life", a tribute to [[E. E. Smith|E. E. "Doc" Smith]]
-* "[[Spinoff (Heinlein)|Spinoff]]", about [[NASA spinoff technologies]]
+* "Spinoff", about [[NASA spinoff technologies]]
-* "[[The Happy Days Ahead]]"
+* "The Happy Days Ahead"
 ===Notes===
 Items marked with (*) appeared in ''The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein''.

v t e Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Collections	The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) The Green Hills of Earth (1951) Revolt in 2100 (1953) Orphans of the Sky (1963) The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Novels	Methuselah's Children (1958) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) Time Enough for Love (1973) The Number of the Beast (1980) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020)
Short stories	"Life-Line" "Let There Be Light" "The Roads Must Roll" "Blowups Happen" "The Man Who Sold the Moon" "Delilah and the Space Rigger" "Space Jockey" "Requiem" "The Long Watch" "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" "The Black Pits of Luna" "It's Great to Be Back!" "—We Also Walk Dogs" "Searchlight" "Ordeal in Space" "The Green Hills of Earth" "Logic of Empire" "The Menace from Earth" "'If This Goes On—'" "Coventry" "Misfit" "Universe" "Common Sense"
Characters	Lazarus Long The Notebooks of Lazarus Long Delos D. Harriman Jubal Harshaw Competent man Maureen Johnson Andrew Jackson Libby Hazel Stone
Related	The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) Expanded Universe (1980)