“The History of the Future” occupies a special place in the writer’s work. Begun in the late 1930s with the story "Life Line" and subsequently continued with such classics as "The Man Who Sold the Moon", "The Green Hills of the Earth", "Stepsons of the Universe", it covers a huge time span in the history of space exploration, as Heinlein imagined it. In this story of his, heroic eras give way to eras of dictatorships, the world turns into war only to turn into peace again - a lot of things happen on man's path to the future. Only man is unchanged - seeking, struggling, winning, doubting, loving, humane. In this edition, some of the translations are made anew, others are given in a new edition.