Later Works

Heinlein Cover Art: Later Works

This page is another that is something of a mixed bag, for “later” is, I’m afraid, somewhere between slippery and ever so slightly a misnomer. Now, the fiction here is all from 1961 and following, so at least that’s clear. Things like “How to Be a Politician,” Tramp Royale, much of the nonfiction collected in the Virginia Edition, and his essay on the nature of science fiction, however, certainly predate Stranger...but at least we could say, with a shrug, that they’re later than the 1940s pulps.

“Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues”

Back cover art by John Stopa

Cover art by John Stopa

Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961

Cover art by Ben Feder

Cover art by Carl Lundgren

Cover art by Carl Lundgrem

Cover art uncredited...but it rather reminds me of James Warhola (See I Will Fear No Evil below).

Cover art by One Plus One Studios

Podkayne of Mars, 1963

Podkayne is a “juvenile”—Heinlein’s last, actually—rather than adult work, but after his post-Starship Troopers split with Scribner’s, it was published by Putnam’s, so the covers appear here rather than on the Scribner’s YA/Juveniles page.

Cover art by Irv Doktor

A tad more drab under the jacket, but interesting color.

Cover art by Paul Lehr

Cover art by Carl Lundgren

Cover art by Matt Stawicki

Cover art by Stephen Hickman

Cover art by Scott Grimando

See my “Serialized Novels” page for Podkayne art by Virgil Finlay from The Worlds of If of November 1962.

Glory Road, 1963

Cover art by Irv Doktor

Cover art by Paul Lehr

Cover art by Carl Lundgren

Cover art by James Warhola (?)

Cover art by Clyde Caldwell

Cover art by Stephen Hickman

Cover art by Gregory Manchess

“All Aboard the Gemini,” Popular Mechanics May 1963

Farnham’s Freehold, 1964

Cover art by Irv Doktor

Under jacket art by Irv Doktor

Not the flashiest cover, shall we say, but a nice old library copy from 1964.

Cover art by Gene Szafran

Cover art by Carl Lundgren

Cover art by Stephen Hickman

For the version first serialized in F&SF in July, August, and October 1964 with Jack Gaughan interior illustrations, see my “Serializations” page.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, 1966

Cover art by Carl Lundgren

Cover art by James Warhola (?)

See my “Serializations” page for various covers plus interior art by Gray Morrow on The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress when it was serialized in The Worlds of If from December 1965 through April 1966.

I Will Fear No Evil, 1971

Paul Bacon cover art

Cover art by James Warhola

See my “Serializations” page for Jack Gaughan illustrations of I Will Fear No Evil in the June-July, August-September, October-November, and December issues of Galaxy in 1970.

“Channel Markers,” Analog January 1974

(Annapolis “Channel Markers” speech) Cover art by Kelly Freas

Time Enough for Love, 1973

Cover art by Carl Lundgren

Cover art by James Warhola

Cover art by Matt Stawicki

“No Bands Playing,” Vertex December 1973

Cover art by Kevin Davidson

Back cover art by Don Dixon

Interior art by C. Austin

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, excerpted in Omni in August 1979

Cover art by Peter Goodfellow

The Number of the Beast, 1980

Back cover by Richard M. Powers

Cover art by Richard M. Powers

This edition also is copiously illustrated inside by Powers in black-and-whites
much more charming and subtle than the cover. Below is a very small sampling.