"All You Zombies": Five Classic Stories

Synopsis

Featuring All You Zombies, the basis for the movie Predestination This collection from Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose originsand relation to the young manare more complex and stranger than the Ouroboros ring on the barkeeps finger. In The Man Who Traveled in Elephantsone of both Heinlein and Spider Robinsons all-time favorite storieswe join a former traveling salesman on a bus. The man and his wife had once traveled with a host of imaginary animals searching for places to sell elephants. They takes listeners inside a mental institution, where a man suffering from delusions has been confined. In Our Fair City, a parking attendant named Pappy, a sentient whirlwind named Kitten, and a crusading reporter named Pete aim to take down their corrupt city government. Lastly, in And He Built a Crooked House, a clever architect designs a house in the shape of the shadow of a tesseract, but it collapses through the fourth dimension when an earthquake shakes it into a more stable form.