The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (collection)
 First Edition cover | |
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | W.I. van der Poel |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fantasy |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
Publication date | 1959 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9780425050521 |
| OCLC | 4623994 |
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is a collection of science fantasy short stories by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Published by The Gnome Press in (1959), the collection was also published in paperback under the title 6 × H.
Contents
[edit]- "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" (1942)
- "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants" (1957)
- "—All You Zombies—" (1959)
- "They" (1941)
- "Our Fair City" (1948)
- "'—And He Built a Crooked House—'" (1941)
The stories in this collection were also published in The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999).
Reception
[edit]Rating it 4.5 stars out of five, Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale described the volume as "a delightful book".[1]
Citations
[edit]- ^ Gale, Floyd C. (February 1961). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 139–143.
General sources
[edit]- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 308.
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