The next volume of the complete works of Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988) includes novels written during different periods of his work. The action of the novel “Magic, Inc.” takes place in one of the parallel realities in which high technology coexists quite naturally with magicians, sorcerers and demons. “Road of Valor” is a fiction novel that lies on the border between ironic and frankly parodic prose. The novel “Job, or the Mockery of Justice” was written in a completely different vein: the author created it at a time of spiritual maturity, when the worldview becomes philosophical, and biblical stories are no less relevant than modern life.

Comp. and the author of the comment. A. Ermolaev; ill. Ya. Ashmarina