The Past Through Tomorrow
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The Past Through Tomorrow was a collection of Robert Heinlein's famed "Future History" stories
The stories, for the most part, follow the same storyline of a rapidly collapsing American sanity, followed by a theocratic dictatorship (If This Goes On...) and the development of true civilization and justice, which is squelched in the last story (Methelusah's Children), forcing the pseudo-immortal Howard Families to flee Earth for their lives from the approaching mobs. In the very end, the Howards (led by recurring Heinlein character Lazarus Long) return to find that the rest of the species has discovered the secret to immortality.
The short stories included vary depending upon the printing, but typically include:
- Misfit (1939)
- Life-Line (1939)
- The Roads Must Roll (1940)
- Requiem (1940)
- If This Goes On... (1940)
- Coventry (1940)
- Blowups Happen (1940)
- Universe (1941)
- Methuselah's Children (1941)
- Logic of Empire (1941)
- Space Jockey (1947)
- It's Great to Be Back! (1947)
- The Green Hills of Earth (1947)
- Ordeal in Space (1948)
- The Long Watch (1948)
- Gentlemen, Be Seated (1948)
- The Black Pits of Luna (1948)
- Delilah and the Space Rigger (1949)
- The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951)