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The Virginia Edition:
The Definitive Collection of Robert A. Heinlein.
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The Virginia Edition is the complete works of Robert A. Heinlein in 46 volumes, bound in leather, printed on archival-quality acid-free paper.
The Virginia Edition represents authoritative texts for all the published fiction and non-fiction of Robert Heinlein, with text taken from the last volume in which Heinlein had a hand in the preparation, or those works restored to their intended state in publications directly overseen by Virginia Heinlein after her husband´s passing.
Also included are 450,000 words of newly selected correspondence, most never before published. Each volume is introduced by Heinlein scholar and biography author, William H. Patterson, Jr, detailing the circumstances under which each work was written. The Virginia Edition is fully authorized by The Heinlein Prize Trust, the Heinleins´ literary estate.
With each Virginia Edition set is included unlimited access to The Heinlein Archives online for one year. The Heinlein Archives offers all of Heinlein´s documents, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal materials in downloadable digital form.
"When Ginny (Virginia) asked me to put together the trust in 1991 we discussed Robert’s work. Robert is a great author, not only a great American author (his books are in print in dozen languages and the number is growing); not just a great Science Fiction author (any more than Verne, Wells or Twain were Science Fiction authors—for they certainly all wrote science or speculative fiction.) Ginny agreed with this. Thus the seed was laid for the creation of The Virginia Edition."
Virginia Edition subscribers receive unlimited access to the online Heinlein Archives!