In The Man Who Traveled in Elephants - one of both Heinlein and Spider Robinson's all-time favorite stories - we join a former traveling salesman on a bus. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose origins - and relation to the young man - are more complex and stranger than the Ouroboros ring on the barkeep's finger. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. This collection from grand master Robert A. In addition to being a bestselling author, Heinlein's novels won 4 Hugo awards, 3 "retro Hugo" awards, and the first "Grand Master Award" from the Science Fiction Writers of America.Featuring "All You Zombies", the basis for the movie Predestination He is generally considered the greatest and most influential science fiction writer of the twentieth century. Heinlein (1907-1988), often called the Science Fiction Grand Master, was the author of such ground-breaking novels as STARSHIP TROOPERS, RED PLANET, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND and THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. That, combined with his outstanding skill as a writer and engineer-inventor, produces books that are often years ahead of their time." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "One of the grand masters of science fiction." - The Wall Street Journal about the author: Robert A. "Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world … remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction." - Stephen King "There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein." - Dean Koontz "One of the most influential writers in American Literature." - The New York Times Book Review "Heinlein wears imagination as though it were his private suit of clothes." - The New York Times "Heinlein… has the ability to see technologies just around the bend. Heinlein's brilliance and diverse talents are on display in this collection of five short stories that range from mind-twisters ("All You Zombies-"), paranoia and surprise ("They-"), hilarious engineering conundrums ("-And They Built a Crooked House"), fantasies ("Our Fair City), and the beautiful, heart-breaking "The Man Who Travelled in Elephants". The story "All You Zombies-" is the basis for PREDESTINATION from Sony Pictures, just released in the US on January 9, 2015, starring Ethan Hawke, directed and written by the Spierig Brothers.
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