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"All You Zombies-": Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein

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1959
2015
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"All You Zombies -"
"They -"
"- And He Built a Crooked House"
Our Fair City
The Man Who Traveled in Elephants
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"All You Zombies -": Copyright © 1959, 1987 by Robert A. Heinlein, copyright assigned 2003 to the Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust
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2217 Time Zone V (set) 7 Nov 1970 NYC - "Pop's Place": I was polishing a brandy snifter when the Unmarried Mother came in.
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The sweet voice of a bugle sounded up ahead, the parade started up again, wending its endless way -
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Bought this for "All You Zombies" after watching Predestination.  The narration is very similar to the movie.

Full copyright information:
"All You Zombies -": Copyright © 1959, 1987 by Robert A. Heinlein, copyright assigned 2003 to the Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust

"They -": Copyright © 1941, 1968 by Robert A. Heinlein, copyright assigned 2003 to the Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust

"- And He Built A Crooked House": Copyright © 1941, 1968 by Robert A. Heinlein, copyright assigned 2003 to the Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust

"Our Fair City": Copyright © 1948, 1975 by Robert A. Heinlein, copyright assigned 2003 to the Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust

"The Man Who Traveled in Elephants": Copyright © 1957, 1985 by Robert A. Heinlein, copyright assigned 2003 to the Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust

These five stories were published together, along with the novella "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag".
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Extract (may contain spoilers)
He was upset by the doctor’s visit. He couldn’t be wrong, basically, yet the doctor had certainly pointed out logical holes in his position. From a logical standpoint the whole world might be a fraud perpetrated on everybody. But logic meant nothing - logic itself was a fraud, starting with unproved assumptions and capable of proving anything. The world is what it is! - and carries its own evidence of trickery.

But does it? What did he have to go on? Could he lay down a line between known facts and everything else and then make a reasonable interpretation of the world, based on facts alone - an interpretation free from complexities of logic and no hidden assumptions of points not certain. Very well -

First fact, himself. He knew himself directly. He existed.

Second facts, the evidence of his "five senses," everything that he himself saw and heard and smelled and tasted with his physical senses. Subject to their limitations, he must believe his senses. Without them he was entirely solitary, shut up in a locker of bone, blind, deaf, cutoff, the only being in the world.

 

Added: 11-May-2015
Last Updated: 11-Jul-2023

Quotes

Americans are considered crazy anywhere in the world.  They will usually concede a basis for the accusation but point to California as the focus of the infection.
The tyrant fears the laugh more than the assassin’s bullet.

Publications

 26-Nov-2013
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Date Issued:
26-Nov-2013
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Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$4.50
Pages*:
98
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1)   6 May 2015 - 6 Jul 2015
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Internal ID:
1524
ISBN:
Unknown
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
From amazon.com:

The story "All You Zombies—" is the basis for PREDESTINATION from Sony Pictures, just released in the US on January 9, 2015, starring Ethan Hawke, directed and written by the Spierig Brothers.

Robert A. Heinlein's brilliance and diverse talents are on display in this collection of five short stories that range from mind-twisters ("All You Zombies—"), paranoia and surprise ("They—"), hilarious engineering conundrums ("—And They Built a Crooked House"), fantasies ("Our Fair City), and the beautiful, heart-breaking "The Man Who Travelled in Elephants".

"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world … [Heinlein] remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction."
- Stephen King

"There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein."
- Dean Koontz

"One of the most influential writers in American Literature."
- The New York Times Book Review

"Heinlein wears imagination as though it were his private suit of clothes."
- The New York Times

"Heinlein… has the ability to see technologies just around the bend. That, combined with his outstanding skill as a writer and engineer-inventor, produces books that are often years ahead of their time."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"One of the grand masters of science fiction."
- The Wall Street Journal

about the author:
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), often called the Science Fiction Grand Master, was the author of such ground-breaking novels as STARSHIP TROOPERS, RED PLANET, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND and THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. He is generally considered the greatest and most influential science fiction writer of the twentieth century. In addition to being a bestselling author, Heinlein's novels won 4 Hugo awards, 3 "retro Hugo" awards, and the first "Grand Master Award" from the Science Fiction Writers of America
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Robert A Heinlein  
Birth: 07 Jul 1907 Butler, Missouri, USA
Death: 08 May 1988 Carmel, California, USA

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