The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein; 1951 Shasta Publishers, Chicago

Description: The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein from my father's collection.This collection of 10 short stories was published in 1951 by Shasta Publishers, Chicago, Illinois; 256 pages, unclipped price of $3.00. Jacket design by Hubert Rogers. This is part of Heinlein's awesome "Future History" series of novels and stories.This book is solid, square, and tight with sharp corners on the hardback covers. The pages are slightly brown with sharp text. The dust jacket is in good condition with some wear along the top edges, especially the spine, creases along both sides of the spine, stains and shelf wear on the back, and browned edges on the inside flaps that are not covered by the pages.Please see photos for more on the book condition.~~~~~~~From Goodreads:The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth.From Wikipedia:The short stories are as follows, in the order they appear in the book:"Delilah and the Space Rigger" (1949; originally published in Blue Book)"Space Jockey" (1947; originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)"The Long Watch" (1949; originally published in The American Legion Magazine)"Gentlemen, Be Seated!" (1948; originally published in Argosy Magazine)"The Black Pits of Luna" (1948; originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)"It's Great to Be Back!" (1947; originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)"—We Also Walk Dogs" (1941; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)"Ordeal in Space" (1948; originally published in Town & Country)"The Green Hills of Earth" (1947; originally published in The Saturday Evening Post)"Logic of Empire" (1941; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)About the author (Goodreads):Works of American science-fiction writer Robert Anson Heinlein include Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966).People often call this novelist "the dean of science fiction writers", one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction."He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the standards of literary quality of the genre. He was the first science-fiction writer to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s. He was also among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era.Also wrote under Pen names: Anson McDonald, Lyle Monroe, Caleb Saunders, John Riverside and Simon York.

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