Assignment In Eternity

Heinlein, Robert A

ISBN 10: 0450035484 / ISBN 13: 9780450035487

Published by New English Library / NEL, 1977

About this Item

© 1960: A collection of 2 stories by Robert A Heinlein. 1st printing of 1977 paperback edition:- Contents: Gulf / Elsewhen:- Synopsis: The Federal Bureau of Security sends one of its top agents to Earth from the Moon carrying a spool of microfilm of incalculable value. He arrives disguised as a commercial traveller, but quickly transforms into Captain Gilead - explorer and lecturer. There are people on earth who will go to any length to relieve him of the film - and they are not deceived for long by his disguise. They begin to close in on him. And time is short:- Review(s): "This story of interplanetary espionage is the 'Dean of Science Fiction' at his very best. In 'Assignment In Eternity' Robert Heinlein, Hugo and Nebula award winner, has seldom been more compulsively readable. Sit back, and take a trip with the master into elsewhen":- (original cost £0.75).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assignment In Eternity
• Publisher: New English Library / NEL
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0450035484
• ISBN 13: 9780450035487
• Binding: Paperback: 7" x 4¼"
• Illustrator: Cover Art: Tim White
• Edition: 1977 Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear
• Weight: 0.08 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A story of interplanetary espionage.

Contents
Gulf (1949) - novella
Elsewhen (1941) - novelette

About the Author

Robert A. Heinlein, four-time winner of the Hugo Award and recipient of three Retro Hugos, received the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. His worldwide bestsellers have been translated into 22 languages and include Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. His long-lost first novel, For Us, the Living, was recently published by Scribner and Pocket Books.