Robert A. Heinlein bibliography
The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was productive during a writing career that spanned the last 49 years of his life; the Robert A. Heinlein bibliography includes 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections published during his life. Four films, two TV series, several episodes of a radio series, at least two songs and a board game derive more or less directly from his work. He wrote the screenplay for Destination Moon. Heinlein also edited an anthology of other writers' science fiction short stories.
Four collections, three non-fiction books and two poems have been published posthumously, in addition to three novels, one of which was co-written with Spider Robinson.
Known pseudonyms include Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, and Simon York. All the works originally attributed to MacDonald, Saunders, Riverside and York, and many of the works originally attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.
Novels
Novels marked with * are part of Scribner's "juvenile" series. Those marked with † are posthumous releases.| Year | Title | Notes | Awards and nominations |
| 1947 | Rocket Ship Galileo * | ||
| 1948 | Beyond This Horizon | Initially serialized in 1942, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald | 2018 Hugo Award : Won |
| 1948 | Space Cadet * | ||
| 1949 | Red Planet * | 1996 Prometheus Award : Won | |
| 1949 | Sixth Column | a.k.a. The Day After Tomorrow / Initially serialized in 1941, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald. | |
| 1950 | Farmer in the Sky * | Initially serialized in a condensed version in Boys' Life magazine as Satellite Scout | 2001 Hugo Award : Won |
| 1951 | Between Planets * | ||
| 1951 | The Puppet Masters | Re-published posthumously with excisions restored, 1990 | |
| 1952 | The Rolling Stones * | a.k.a. Space Family Stone | 2006 Audie Awards : Nominated |
| 1953 | Starman Jones * | ||
| 1954 | The Star Beast * | 2008 Audie Awards : Nominated | |
| 1955 | Tunnel in the Sky * | ||
| 1956 | Double Star | 1956 Hugo Award : Won 1987 Locus Award : Nominated | |
| 1956 | Time for the Stars * | ||
| 1957 | Citizen of the Galaxy * | 2022 Prometheus Award : Won | |
| 1957 | The Door into Summer | 1975 Locus Award : Nominated 1987 Locus Award : Nominated | |
| 1958 | Have Space Suit—Will Travel * | 1959 Hugo Award : Nominated 1961 Sequoyah Book Award : Won 2007 BSFA Award : Nominated | |
| 1958 | Methuselah's Children | Originally a serialized novella in 1941 | 1997 Prometheus Award : Won |
| 1959 | Starship Troopers | 1960 Hugo Award : Won 1975 Locus Award : Nominated 1987 Locus Award : Nominated | |
| 1961 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Reprinted at the original greater length in 1991 | 1962 Hugo Award : Won 1975 Locus Award : Nominated 1987 Prometheus Award : Won 1987 Locus Award : Nominated 1990 Science Fiction Book Club's Book of the Year Award: Nominated |
| 1963 | Podkayne of Mars | 2010 Audie Awards : Nominated | |
| 1963 | Orphans of the Sky | Fix-up novel comprising the novellas Universe and Common Sense, both originally published in 1941 | |
| 1963 | Glory Road | 1964 Hugo Award : Nominated 1987 Locus Award : Nominated | |
| 1964 | Farnham's Freehold | ||
| 1966 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | 1967 Hugo Award : Won 1975 Locus Award : Nominated 1967 Nebula Award : Nominated 1983 Prometheus Award : Won 1987 Locus Award : Nominated | |
| 1970 | I Will Fear No Evil | 1971 Locus Award : Nominated 1978 Seiun Award : Won | |
| 1973 | Time Enough for Love | 1974 Locus Award : Nominated 1974 Hugo Award : Nominated 1974 Nebula Award : Nominated 1987 Locus Award : Nominated 1998 Prometheus Award : Won | |
| 1980 | The Number of the Beast | 1981 Locus Award : Nominated | |
| 1982 | Friday | 1983 Locus Award : Nominated 1983 Hugo Award : Nominated 1983 Nebula Award : Nominated 1983 Prometheus Award : Nominated | |
| 1984 | Job: A Comedy of Justice | 1985 Hugo Award : Nominated 1985 Locus Award : Won 1985 Nebula Award : Nominated | |
| 1985 | The Cat Who Walks Through Walls | 1986 Locus Award : Nominated | |
| 1987 | To Sail Beyond the Sunset | 1988 Locus Award : Nominated 1989 Prometheus Award : Nominated | |
| 2003 | For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs † | Written in 1938 | 2005 Locus Award : Nominated |
| 2006 | Variable Star † | ||
| 2020 | The Pursuit of the Pankera † | An alternate version of The Number of the Beast |
Short fiction
"Future History" short fiction
| Year | Title | Notes | Awards and nominations |
| 1939 | Life-Line | ||
| 1939 | Misfit | ||
| 1940 | Let There Be Light | as Lyle Monroe | |
| 1940 | The Roads Must Roll | 2016 Hugo Award : Won | |
| 1940 | Requiem | 2003 Prometheus Award : Won 2016 Hugo Award : Nominated | |
| 1940 | "If This Goes On—" | First novel | 2016 Hugo Award : Won |
| 1940 | Coventry | 2016 Hugo Award : Nominated 2017 Prometheus Award : Won | |
| 1940 | Blowups Happen | 2016 Hugo Award : Nominated | |
| 1941 | Universe | ||
| 1941 | —We Also Walk Dogs | as Anson MacDonald | |
| 1941 | Common Sense | ||
| 1941 | Methuselah's Children | Lengthened and published as a novel in 1958 | |
| 1941 | Logic of Empire | ||
| 1947 | Space Jockey | ||
| 1947 | It's Great to Be Back! | ||
| 1947 | The Green Hills of Earth | 1952 Analog Award : 8th Place | |
| 1948 | Ordeal in Space | ||
| 1948 | The Long Watch | ||
| 1948 | Gentlemen, Be Seated! | ||
| 1948 | The Black Pits of Luna | ||
| 1949 | Delilah and the Space Rigger | ||
| 1950 | The Man Who Sold the Moon | 1952 Analog Award : 4th Place 2001 Hugo Award : Won | |
| 1957 | The Menace from Earth | ||
| 1962 | Searchlight |
Other short speculative fiction
All the works initially attributed to Anson MacDonald, Caleb Saunders, John Riverside and Simon York, and many of the works attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.At Heinlein's insistence, the three Lyle Monroe stories marked with the symbol '§' were never reissued in a Heinlein anthology during his lifetime.
| Year | Title | Notes | Awards and nominations |
| 1940 | Magic, Inc. | a.k.a. The Devil Makes the Law | 2016 Hugo Award : Nominated |
| 1940 | Solution Unsatisfactory | as Anson MacDonald | |
| 1940 | Successful Operation | ||
| 1941 | They | ||
| 1941 | And He Built a Crooked House | ||
| 1941 | By His Bootstraps | as Anson MacDonald | |
| 1941 | Lost Legacy | ||
| 1941 | Elsewhen | ||
| 1941 | Beyond Doubt § | as Lyle Monroe with Elma Wentz | |
| 1942 | The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag | as John Riverside | 2018 Hugo Award : Nominated |
| 1942 | Waldo | as Anson MacDonald | 2018 Hugo Award : Won |
| 1942 | My Object All Sublime § | as Lyle Monroe | |
| 1942 | Goldfish Bowl | as Anson MacDonald | 2018 Hugo Award : Nominated |
| 1942 | Pied Piper § | as Lyle Monroe | |
| 1946 | Free Men | Published in 1966 | 2023 Prometheus Award : Won |
| 1947 | Jerry Was a Man | ||
| 1947 | Water Is for Washing | ||
| 1947 | Columbus Was a Dope | as Lyle Monroe | |
| 1947 | On the Slopes of Vesuvius | ||
| 1948 | Our Fair City | ||
| 1949 | Gulf | ||
| 1949 | Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon | ||
| 1950 | Destination Moon | ||
| 1952 | The Year of the Jackpot | ||
| 1953 | Project Nightmare | ||
| 1953 | Sky Lift | ||
| 1956 | A Tenderfoot in Space | Serialized in 1958 | |
| 1957 | The Man Who Traveled in Elephants | a.k.a. The Elephant Circuit | |
| 1959 | '—All You Zombies—' | 1979 Balrog Awards : Nominated | |
| 1975 | Field Defects: Memo from a Cyborg | Written in 1975, published in 2010 |
Other short fiction
| Year | Title | Notes | Awards and nominations |
| 1946 | A Bathroom of Her Own | ||
| 1947 | They Do It with Mirrors | as Simon York | |
| 1947 | No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying | Written in 1947, published in 1973 | |
| 1949 | Poor Daddy | ||
| 1950 | Cliff and the Calories | ||
| 1951 | The Bulletin Board |
Collections
Complete works
- The Virginia Edition, a 46-volume hardcover collection of all of Robert Heinlein's stories, novels, and nonfiction writing, plus a selection of his personal correspondence, was announced by Meisha Merlin Publishing in April 2005; the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust instigated the project. Meisha Merlin went out of business in May 2007 after producing six volumes: I Will Fear No Evil, Time Enough for Love, Starship Troopers, For Us, the Living, The Door into Summer, and Double Star.
- The Heinlein Prize Trust then decided to publish the edition itself, having formed the Virginia Edition Publishing Co. for this purpose. As was true for the Meisha Merlin effort, individual volumes are not offered; subscribers must purchase the entire 46-volume set. The final five volumes were shipped to subscribers in June 2012.
- In July 2007, the Heinlein Prize Trust opened the online Heinlein Archives, which allows people to purchase and download items from the Heinlein Archive previously stored at the University of California-Santa Cruz. The Trust makes grants available to those using the archives for scholarly purposes.
Foreword
| Year | Title | Notes | Awards and nominations |
| 1952 | Tomorrow, the Stars | Anthology of stories by 14 authors selected by Frederik Pohl and Judith Merril, foreword by Heinlein who got his name on the cover. |
Filmography
Destination Moon, 1950, Out There, TV series, 1951 Project Moonbase, 1953, The Brain Eaters, 1959, Uchu no Senshi, 1988Red Planet, TV miniseries, 1994, The Puppet Masters, film, 1994, Starship Troopers, film, 1997, Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles, TV series based on the 1997 movie, 1999, Masters of Science Fiction, TV miniseries, 2007Starship Troopers: Invasion, film, 2012, Predestination, film, 2014, The Door Into Summer, film, 2021,Spinoffs
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, illuminated by D. F. Vassallo, 1978New Destinies, Vol. VI/Winter 1988—Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue, 1988Fate's Trick by Matt Costello, 1988, a "game book" inspired by Glory RoadRequiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master, 1992- Two different Starship Troopers board games were published by Avalon Hill in 1976 and 1997
- The video game Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy was published by Blue Tongue Entertainment in 2000Dimension X, science fiction radio programs in 1950–1951. Among other writers, episodes were based on Heinlein's Destination Moon (film), The Green Hills of Earth, Requiem, The Roads Must Roll, and Universe.X Minus One, radio series in 1955–1958: Universe
- Language arts materials for teachers based on Heinlein's works, in support of World Space Week, 2005.