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This article focuses on Robert A. Heinlein's Future History series. For other future histories, see Future history.

Future History was a series of science fiction stories by Robert A. Heinlein published from 1939, beginning with the short story Life-Line, Heinlein's first published story, through 1987, ending with the novel To Sail Beyond the Sunset, the last novel published during his lifetime. The term Future History itself appears to have been coined by John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction in the February 1941 issue. In the March 1941 issue, an incomplete time line of the series was published.

The majority of the short stories in the series are collected in the book The Past Through Tomorrow.

Chronology

The following is a list of the stories in the series, listed in chronological order of the universe, not of publishing.

• Life-Line (1939)
• "Let There Be Light" (1940)
• The Roads Must Roll (1940)
• Blowups Happen (1940)
• The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
• Delilah and the Space Rigger (1949)
• Space Jockey (1947)
• Requiem (1939)
• Gentlemen, Be Seated (1948)
• The Black Pits of Luna (1947)
• "It's Great to Be Back!" (1946)
• We Also Walk Dogs (1941)
• Searchlight (1962)
• Ordeal in Space (1947)
• The Green Hills of Earth (1947)
• Logic of Empire (1941)
• The Menace from Earth (1957)
• "If This Goes On—" (1940)
• Coventry (1940)
• Misfit (1939)
• Methuselah's Children (1941, extended and published as a novel, 1958)
• Variable Star (1955/2006) (posthumous, with Spider Robinson) (divergent)
• Universe (1941)
• Common Sense (1941)
• Time Enough for Love (1973)
• The Number of the Beast (1980)
• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
• To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)

Robert A. Heinlein Novels, Major Short-story Collections, and Nonfiction

Future History and Pantheistic solipsism>World as Myth: Variable Star (1955/2006) | Methuselah's Children (1958) | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) | The Past Through Tomorrow (1967) | Time Enough for Love (1973) | The Number of the Beast (1980) | The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) | To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987) Scribner Juveniles: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) | Space Cadet (1948) | Red Planet (1949) | Farmer in the Sky (1950) | Between Planets (1951) | The Rolling Stones (1952) | Starman Jones (1953) | The Star Beast (1954) | Tunnel in the Sky (1955) | Time for the Stars (1956) | Citizen of the Galaxy (1957) | Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958) Other fiction:  (1939) | Beyond This Horizon (1942) | Sixth Column (also known as The Day After Tomorrow) (1949) | The Puppet Masters (1951) | Double Star (1956) | The Door into Summer (1957) | Starship Troopers (1959) | Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) | Podkayne of Mars (1963) | Glory Road (1963) | Farnham's Freehold (1965) | I Will Fear No Evil (1970) | Friday (1982) |  (1984) Nonfiction: Tramp Royale (1954/1992) | Expanded Universe (1980) | Grumbles from the Grave (1989)

 

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