Expanded Universe (Heinlein)
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Expanded Universe
First Edition cover for Expanded Universe
Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)

The full title of this 1980 collection of stories and essays by Robert A. Heinlein is Expanded Universe, The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein. The Ace trade paperback 1981 edition lists the subtitle under other Heinlein books as More Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein because the contents subsume the 1966 Ace Books collection, The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein. The current volume is dedicated to William Targ.

The book collects many short stories and essays, with a foreword for each. They are:

• "Life-Line" (*)
• "Successful Operation"
• "Blowups Happen" (*)
• "Solution Unsatisfactory" (*)
• "The Last Days of the United States"
• "How to Be a Survivor"
• "Pie from the Sky"
• "They Do It with Mirrors"
• "Free Men" (*)
• "No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying"
• "A Bathroom of Her Own"
• "On the Slopes of Vesuvius"
• "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon"
• "Pandora's Box" (*)
• "Where To?" (1950, 1965, 1980)
• "Cliff and the Calories"
• "Ray Guns and Rocket Ships"
• "The Third Millennium Opens"
• "Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?"
• "Pravda Means Truth"
• "Inside Intourist"
• "Searchlight" (*)
• "The Pragmatics of Patriotism"
• "Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You"
• "Larger Than Life", a memoir in tribute to E. E. "Doc" Smith
• "Spinoff"
• "The Happy Days Ahead"

The six items marked with (*) appeared in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein.

v • d • e Robert A. Heinlein novels, major collections, and nonfiction (Bibliography) Future History & World as Myth 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's 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 novels For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939/2003) · Beyond This Horizon (1942) · Sixth Column (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) · Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984) · Variable Star (1955/2006) Nonfiction Take Back Your Government (1946/1992) · Tramp Royale (1954/1992) · Expanded Universe (1980) · Grumbles from the Grave (1989)

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