All You Zombies --: Five Classic Stories

Heinlein, Robert A.

ISBN 10: 1482949563 ISBN 13: 9781482949568

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2014

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Featuring� All You Zombies, the basis for the movie� PredestinationThis collection from Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein includesfive short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The titlestory tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose origins-andrelation to the young man-are more complex and stranger than the Ouroboros ringon the barkeep's finger. In The Man Who Traveled in Elephants-one of bothHeinlein and Spider Robinson's all-time favorite stories-we join a formertraveling salesman on a bus. The man and his wife had once traveled with a hostof imaginary animals searching for places to sell elephants. They takeslisteners inside a mental institution, where a man suffering from delusions hasbeen confined. In Our Fair City, a parking attendant named Pappy, a sentientwhirlwind named Kitten, and a crusading reporter named Pete aim to take downtheir corrupt city government. Lastly, in And He Built a Crooked House, a cleverarchitect designs a house in the shape of the shadow of a tesseract, but it collapsesthrough the fourth dimension when an earthquake shakes it into a more stable form.

Biograf�a del autor

Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) took a variety of jobs before beginning to write science fiction in 1939. He became the dominant science fiction writer of the modern era, a writer whose influence on the field was immense. He won science fiction's Hugo Award for best novel seven times, and several of his books were New York Times bestsellers. In 1975 he received the first Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.

Spider Robinson is renowned for his Callahan's Place series of bestselling novels. With his late wife, Jeanne, he wrote the award-winning Stardance series. As an audiobook reader of his own and others' work, he has won the Earphones Award and been a finalist for the Audie Awards. In 2008, he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature.

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