The novella “The Logic of Empire” is set mainly on the harsh landscape of Venus (which seems very much like equatorial Earth, except hotter and muggier), but the subject is one that has been an aspect of human society from the beginning - slavery. People are people, albeit in alien settings or in exotic circumstances. Here, there’s not much discussion of space hardware or theoretical physics. The Green Hills of Earth is a 1951 collection of nine short stories and a novella, originally published during the previous decade. In The Green Hills of Earth, Heinlein does what he does best - writes about that endlessly mysterious and endlessly curious thing called human nature. Sometimes, when he was older and had had wide success, he would fill his fiction with bombast about how humans should live, and that could get tedious. Heinlein would speculate in his stories and novels about the science of space travel, and that could get a bit wonky. Sometimes, when he was younger, Robert A.
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