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Assignment In Eternity; Revolt In 2100; Methuselah's Children; The Door Into Summer (4 books)

Assignment In Eternity; Revolt In 2100; Methuselah's Children; The Door Into Summer (4 books)

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Assignment In Eternity; Revolt In 2100; Methuselah's Children; The Door Into Summer (4 books)

by Heinlein, Robert A

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New York, NY: Signet, 1953. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Assignment In Eternity - T3968. 6th printing. Synopsis: Two Short Novels. Gulf - In which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide.192 pages. 3 creases on front cover across the bottom right corner 1" - 2" long. Spine is creased. Slight rubbing on some places around outside edges. Top & bottom of spine rubbed.; Revolt In 2100 - ISBN: 0451111486. 1954, 19th printing. stands at the beginning of a long tradition of undergrounds battling future tyrannys. Here Heinlein gives us a Masonic cabal subverting a future American theocracy. Its protagonist gradually finds himself, for the love of a woman, transformed from guard of the Prophet to a revolutionary and questioning his own most basic beliefs. "Coventry" is one of those stories about what happens when convicts are allowed to build their own societies without supervision. Its literary critic protagonist doesn't find the liberating anarchy he expects amongst society's outcasts. 192 pages. A 1" crease on front cover across both outside corners and another next to the top left corner. Methuselah's Children - ISBN: 0671655973. 1958, 5th printing. T4226. Members of the Families were ordinary humans, except for one disturbing trait: they were extraordinarily long-lived. Forced to choose between torture & extinction & leave Earth on an untested starship. They left, but discovered the alien stars worse. 160 pages. 1" crease on rear cover and a 1/4" crease across the bottom left corner. Bottom right corner tip of front cover is bumped.; The Door Into Summer - ISBN: 0345413997. 1957, 6th printing. T3750. Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in which Dan will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them--and at them . . . 159 pages. Rubbing on top & bottom of spine and some parts of outside edges. Rear cover spine edge is creased down the length of the book and a 1/4 " across the top left corner. 2" crease on frotn cover and the typing next to the T3750 at the top edge is crossed out with a pen. Three fantastic Robert Heinlein books! These 4 books are vintage. A great book set for the science fiction reader in your household!.

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Assignment in Eternity, is a collection of four mixed science fiction and fantasy novellas by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in hardcover by Fantasy Press in 1953, with some of the stories somewhat revised from their original magazine publications, as follows: Gulf (written and published in 1949 in Astounding Science Fiction, October-November 1949).

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Assignment In Eternity; Revolt In 2100; Methuselah's Children; The Door Into Summer (4 books)
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Heinlein, Robert A
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Paperback
ISBN 10
0451111486
ISBN 13
9780451111487
Publisher
New York, NY: Signet, 1953
Place of Publication
New York, Ny, U.s.a.
This edition first published
April 1, 1955
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