Science fiction legend Robert A. Heinlein's agent, his executor and a Heinlein scholar have blessed a 46-volume "definitive" edition of his works to be published by Meisha Merlin, in a 5,000-copy limited edition. Weirdly, they're leading with I Will Fear No Evil, a book that I think of as not just weak, but actually embarrassing (there's lots of Heinlein I love, but the 500-page bricks he wrote later in life are not among them). It's tempting to make a crack about there being only 5,000 people around who'd shell out for I Will Fear No Evil, but the fact is that if I had a bigger place, I'd be seriously considering buying this set.
The project will consist of 46 titles spanning the entire writing career of the legendary SF author. The Virginia Edition will contain all of Heinlein's novels and short stories; all of his nonfiction titles; several volumes of his letters and personal correspondence; and the vast majority of his interviews, social commentaries, speeches and articles, the site reported.
