Аннотация
Robert A. Heinlein
Expanded Universe
FOREWORD
Warning! Truth in advertising requires me to tell you that this volume contains THE WORLDS OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, published 1966. But this new volume is about three times as long. It contains fiction stories that have never before appeared in book form, nonfiction articles not available elsewhere, a 30 - year updating on my 1950 prognostications (as well as the 15 - year updating that appeared in THE WORLDS OF R.A.H.), with the usual weasel - worded excuses as to why I guessed wrong - and (ruffles & flourishes) not one but two scenarios for the year 2000, one for people who like happy endings and another for people who can take bad news without a quiver - as long as it happens to somebody else.
On these I will do a really free - swinging job as the probability (by a formula I just now derived) that either I or this soi-disant civilization will be extinct by 2000 A.D. approaches 99.92+%. This makes it unlikely that...
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