The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein

By Farah Mendlesohn

A major new critical study of the writings of a giant of the SF genre by a Hugo award-winning critic and historian.

Saturday, 24 March 2018

At last, we have a title!

One of the comments I've frequently made, is that in some ways I have been channelling the great man himself. Verbosity, intemperance, etc etc. But nowhere has this been truer than my inability to come up with a title. Heinlein had a terrible ear for titles. Most of his stories were titled by magazine editors, and most of his adult novels were titled by Virginia. His original title for Number of the Beast, for example, was The Panki-Barsoom Number of the Beast, or even just Panki-Barsoom.

So I did what Heinlein did and outsourced the problem, in this case to many friends on facebook.

And the title is.....

The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein.

With a release date in March 2019.

 

Back to project page
Share on social

Top rewards

£6 
346 pledges

Digital

Ebook edition of the book.
Buy now
£25  + shipping
196 pledges

Hardback

Hardback edition of the book, plus an ebook edition of the book
Buy now