Heinlein, Robert A

Presents two novels by Robert A. Heinlen in which Americans fight must fight against threats to their freedom.

A high school senior goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten day final exam in Advanced Survival, and realizes, after a period of fighting the elements and wildlife, that something has gone wrong with the gate and what was a brief survival exam is an endless struggle for life.

One by one the free nations had fallen, until America stood alone in arms against the World. Now, scattered resistance flares throughout the American continent, but the only real hope lies in a mountain where six men work on a secret plan to rock the world.

Presents six short stories in Heinlein's Future History series, featuring a billionaire who decides to bring space travel to all mankind, despite the dangers; a man who predicts the dates of people's deaths; a breakthrough in solar energy utilization that destabilizes the economy; a labor strike that shakes a country dependent on its intricate transportation system; and mental breakdown among workers in an atomic plant.

Electronics engineer Dan Davis, on the verge of great success with his invention of a household robot, is tricked by his greedy partner into suspended animation where he remains for thirty years until he wakes up in the year 2000 bent on revenge.

An American tourist takes a walk on hot coals and undergoes a space time transition.

When his step-mother marries a no-count man, a country lad joins a hobo and together they take their way into the Space Stewards, Cooks, and Purser's Clerks brotherhood to get an opportunity for space travel in an age when only the wealthy are privileged.

An adventurous Mars girl takes off on her first space voyage. She is kidnapped on Venus and discovers that fairies are not imaginary or nice.

Portrays a utopian Earth of the future, where Hamilton Felix discovers a secret organization far more disillusioned than he is--and they are preparing to rebel against society.