It’s not often that the luminary of American science fiction, Robert Heinlein, looked into the territory of adjacent genres - and all the more valuable are the rare fantasy experiments collected in this volume: the story “Magic, Inc.” and the novel “Road of Valor.” At the very beginning of his writing career, Heinlein showed us a world whose entire economy was based on industrial magic, and more than twenty years later he invited us to look into “a place where there is no smog, no parking problems, no population explosion, no cold war, no hydrogen bombs, no TV advertising,” and then walk along the Road of Valor. Some of the heroes will have to go down to the Half-World and there identify one demon out of seven million, some - after being demobilized after the war in Southeast Asia, kill the dragon, return the Phoenix Egg and marry the queen, but both of them are typical Heinlein heroes, for whom the word “honor” is by no means an empty phrase...Translations are published in a new edition.