Future History

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

Robert A. Heinlein's Future History was a series of science fiction stories 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)
• "And He Built a Crooked House" (1941)
• 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)
• The Long Watch (1948)
• 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)
• 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)Template:Heinlein (Novel)