Off the Main Sequence

Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein
First Edition cover
Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Science Fiction Book Club
Publication date	November, 2005
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	738 + xxiv
ISBN	1-58288-184-7
OCLC	62596696

Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein (ISBN 1-58288-184-7) is a collection of 27 Robert A. Heinlein short stories, including three that Heinlein never collected in book form.

The title is a play on the astronomy concept off the main sequence.

"Introduction" by Greg Bear
"Foreword" by Michael Cassutt
"Editor's Note" by Andrew Wheeler
"Successful Operation" (as "Heil") by Lyle Monroe, Futuria Fantasia, April 1940
"Let There Be Light" by Lyle Monroe, Super Science Stories, May 1940
""—And He Built a Crooked House—"", Astounding Stories, February 1941
"Beyond Doubt" by Lyle Monroe & Elma Wentz, Astonishing Stories, April 1941 (*)
"They", Unknown, April 1941
"Solution Unsatisfactory" by Anson MacDonald, Astounding, May 1941
"Universe", Astounding, May 1941
"Elsewhen" (as "Elsewhere") by Caleb Saunders, Astounding, September 1941
"Common Sense", Astounding, October 1941
"By His Bootstraps" by Anson MacDonald, Astounding, October 1941
"Lost Legacy" (as "Lost Legion") by Lyle Monroe, Super Science Stories, November 1941
"“My Object All Sublime”" by Lyle Monroe, Future Fiction, February 1942 (*)
"Goldfish Bowl" by Anson MacDonald, Astounding, March 1942
"Pied Piper" by Lyle Monroe, Astonishing Stories, March 1942 (*)
"Free Men", The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
"On the Slopes of Vesuvius", Expanded Universe, 1980
"Columbus Was a Dope", Startling Stories, May 1947
"Jerry Was a Man" (as "Jerry Is a Man"), Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1947
"Water Is for Washing", Argosy, November 1947
"Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon", Boys' Life, April 1949
"Gulf", Astounding, November 1949
"Destination Moon", Short Stories, September 1950
"The Year of the Jackpot", Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1952
"Project Nightmare", Amazing Stories, April/May 1953
"Sky Lift", Imagination, November 1953
"Tenderfoot in Space", Boys' Life, May 1958
"All You Zombies—", Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1959

(*) Previously uncollected in a Heinlein collection

Robert A. Heinlein

Bibliography

Future History & World as Myth	The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) The Green Hills of Earth (1951) Revolt in 2100 (1953) Methuselah's Children (1958) Orphans of the Sky (1963) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) The Past Through Tomorrow (1967) Time Enough for Love (1973) The Number of the Beast (1980) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)

Scribner's juveniles	Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) Space Cadet (1948) Red Planet (1949) Farmer in the Sky (1950) Between Planets (1951) The Rolling Stones (1952) Starman Jones (1953) The Star Beast (1954) Tunnel in the Sky (1955) Time for the Stars (1956) Citizen of the Galaxy (1957) Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

Other novels	For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939/2003) Beyond This Horizon (1948) Sixth Column (1949) The Puppet Masters (1951) Double Star (1956) The Door into Summer (1957) Starship Troopers (1959) The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959) Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) Podkayne of Mars (1963) Glory Road (1963) Farnham's Freehold (1964) I Will Fear No Evil (1970) Friday (1982) Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984) Variable Star (1955/2006)

Non-fiction	Take Back Your Government (1946/1992) Tramp Royale (1954/1992) Expanded Universe (1980) Grumbles from the Grave (1989)

Screenplays	Destination Moon (1950)

Words created	Grok Moonbat Waldo

Related	List of characters Virginia Heinlein The Robert Heinlein Omnibus The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein Requiem The Robert Heinlein Interview and other Heinleiniana Heinlein Centennial Robert A. Heinlein Award Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization

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