Our Noble, Essential Decency: A 'This I Believe' Essay

Methuselah's Children

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By MacLeod Andrews
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After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality…

Orphans of the Sky

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By Eric Michael Summerer

The Jordan Foundation sponsored the Proxima Centauri Expedition in 2119, in attempt to reach the nearer stars of the galaxy. But that was far in the mythic past. The original purpose of the Ship's epic voyage has long been forgotten, and for generations the giant spaceship, lost between the stars, is the only world that the people aboard have known. A strange civilization has evolved, with its own superstitions, savage religion, rigid class structure and mutant outcasts.

The Rolling Stones

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By David Baker, the Full Cast Family

It doesn't seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it's clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who's met their grandmother Hazel would know that they came by it honestly.

The Number of the Beast

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne, Emily Durante, Malcolm Hillgartner, and others

The wickedest, most wonderful science fiction story ever created in our - or any - time. Anything can begin at a party in California - and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction. When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans - two male, two female - find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies - and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure, danger, ecstasy, and peril.

Red Planet

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Robert A` Heinlein
• Narrated By William Dufris

Jim Marlowe's Martian pet, Willis, seems like nothing more than an adorable ball of fur.

But Jim's devotion to the little creature will soon lead him and his pal Frank into a death-defying trek across Mars.