Most of the stories in The Man Who Sold the Moon and The Green Hills of Earth (excluding Solution Unsatisfactory in the first, and We Also Walk Dogs— and possibly The Long Watch in the second), all of Revolt in 2100, Methuselah's Children, and the two pieces that eventually became Orphans of the Sky were written with a common background, which Heinlein eventually systematized into a big chart. When he showed it to Campbell, Campbell asked for permission to publish it, and it became one of the prototypes for "future history." That was the original series.
Then decades later Heinlein published Time Enough for Love and several other novels revolving around Lazarus Long, which to my mind are not Heinlein's best work—not even his best post-Stranger work. But they're clearly sequels to the Future History, though written in a far less optimistic mood: No more about "The first human society."
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Date: 2015-11-10 02:41 pm (UTC)Most of the stories in The Man Who Sold the Moon and The Green Hills of Earth (excluding Solution Unsatisfactory in the first, and We Also Walk Dogs— and possibly The Long Watch in the second), all of Revolt in 2100, Methuselah's Children, and the two pieces that eventually became Orphans of the Sky were written with a common background, which Heinlein eventually systematized into a big chart. When he showed it to Campbell, Campbell asked for permission to publish it, and it became one of the prototypes for "future history." That was the original series.
Then decades later Heinlein published Time Enough for Love and several other novels revolving around Lazarus Long, which to my mind are not Heinlein's best work—not even his best post-Stranger work. But they're clearly sequels to the Future History, though written in a far less optimistic mood: No more about "The first human society."