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Robert A. Heinlein, four-time winner of the Hugo Award and recipient of three Retro Hugos, received the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. His worldwide bestsellers have been translated into twenty-two languages and include Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. His long-lost first novel, For Us, the Living , was published by Scribner and Pocket Books.
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- Publisher: Baen (July 3, 2012)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9781451637854
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Assignment In Eternity Mass Market Paperback – April 1, 2000
PLUS TWO GREAT STORIES: Two of the Master's finest: one on the nature of Being, the other on what it means to be a Man.
- Print length 276 pages
- Language English
- Publisher Baen Books
- Publication date April 1, 2000
- Dimensions 4 x 0.75 x 6.75 inches
- ISBN-10 0671578650
- ISBN-13 978-0671578657
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- Publisher : Baen Books (April 1, 2000)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 276 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0671578650
- ISBN-13 : 978-0671578657
- Item Weight : 4.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 4 x 0.75 x 6.75 inches
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Robert heinlein.
Robert Heinlein was an American novelist and the grand master of science fiction in the twentieth century. Often called 'the dean of science fiction writers', he is one of the most popular, influential and controversial authors of 'hard science fiction'.
Over the course of his long career he won numerous awards and wrote 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections, many of which have cemented their place in history as science fiction classics, including STARSHIP TROOPERS, THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS and the beloved STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
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