The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag - Softcover

Heinlein, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425030520 ISBN 13: 9780425030523

Publisher: Berkley Books, 1976

Synopsis

One of the most extraordinary novels ever! The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag - science fiction? Detective nove? Horror? Fantasy? All of these and more. From the eye-popping opening, Jonathan Hoag will hold you utterly in enthralled straight through one astonishment after another - until its appalling and unforgettable climax. Also from the pen of the master - five classic stories: The Man Who Traveled In Elephants, "-All You Zombies-", They, Our Fair City, "-And He Built A Crooked House-"

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre.

He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future.

Robert A. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. By the time hed died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.

Review:

Praise for Robert A. Heinlein:

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

''The most influential science fiction writer of all time!'' --Locus

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0425030520
• ISBN 13: 9780425030523
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 214