Editing Robert A. Heinlein (section)

===Posthumous publications===
Several Heinlein works have been published since his death, including the aforementioned ''[[For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs|For Us, the Living]]'' as well as 1989's ''[[Grumbles from the Grave]]'', a collection of letters between Heinlein and his editors and agent; 1992's ''[[Tramp Royale]]'', a travelogue of a southern hemisphere tour the Heinleins took in the 1950s; ''[[Take Back Your Government]]'', a how-to book about participatory democracy written in 1946 and reflecting his experience as an organizer with the [[End Poverty in California|EPIC campaign of 1934]] and the movement's aftermath as an important factor in California politics before the Second World War; and a tribute volume called ''[[Requiem (short story collection)|Requiem: Collected Works and Tributes to the Grand Master]]'', containing some additional short works previously unpublished in book form. ''[[Off the Main Sequence]]'', published in 2005, includes three short stories never before collected in any Heinlein book (Heinlein called them "stinkeroos").

[[Spider Robinson]], a colleague, friend, and admirer of Heinlein,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/articles/rahrahrah.html |title=Heinleinsociety.org |publisher=Heinleinsociety.org |access-date=May 16, 2012 |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115075823/http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/articles/rahrahrah.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> wrote ''[[Variable Star]]'', based on an outline and notes for a novel that Heinlein prepared in 1955. The novel was published as a collaboration, with Heinlein's name above Robinson's on the cover, in 2006.

A complete collection of Heinlein's published work has been published<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heinleinbooks.com/ |title=heinleinbooks.com |publisher=Heinleinsociety.org |access-date=January 17, 2015 |archive-date=December 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227222914/http://www.heinleinbooks.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> by the Heinlein Prize Trust as the "Virginia Edition", after his wife. See the Complete Works section of [[Robert A. Heinlein bibliography]] for details.

On February 1, 2019, Phoenix Pick announced that through a collaboration with the Heinlein Prize Trust, a reconstruction of the full text of an unpublished Heinlein novel had been produced. It was published in March 2020. The reconstructed novel, entitled ''The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes'',<ref>{{cite book | last = Heinlein | first = Robert | title = The pursuit of the Pankera : a parallel novel about parallel universes | publisher = CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor Publishers | location = Rockville, MD | year = 2020 | isbn = 978-1647100018 }}</ref> is an alternative version of ''The Number of the Beast'', with the first one-third of ''The Pursuit of the Pankera'' mostly the same as the first one-third of ''The Number of the Beast'' but the remainder of ''The Pursuit of the Pankera'' deviating entirely from ''The Number of the Beast'', with a completely different story-line. The newly reconstructed novel pays homage to [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] and [[E. E. Smith|E. E. "Doc" Smith]]. It was edited by [[Pat LoBrutto|Patrick Lobrutto]]. Some reviewers describe the newly reconstructed novel as more in line with the style of a traditional Heinlein novel than was ''The Number of the Beast''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/08/unseen-robert-a-heinlein-novel-reworks-awful-the-number-of-the-beast|title=Unseen Robert A Heinlein novel reworks 'awful' The Number of the Beast|date=February 8, 2019|website=The Guardian|access-date=February 13, 2021|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002430/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/08/unseen-robert-a-heinlein-novel-reworks-awful-the-number-of-the-beast|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Pursuit of the Pankera'' was considered superior to the original version of ''The Number of the Beast'' by some reviewers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2020/04/09/long-lost-treasure-the-pursuit-of-the-pankera-vs-the-number-of-the-beast-by-robert-a-heinlein/|title=Long-Lost Treasure: The Pursuit of the Pankera vs. The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein|first=Alan|last=Brown|date=April 9, 2020|website=Tor.com|access-date=May 1, 2020|archive-date=April 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412140938/https://www.tor.com/2020/04/09/long-lost-treasure-the-pursuit-of-the-pankera-vs-the-number-of-the-beast-by-robert-a-heinlein/|url-status=live}}</ref>  Both ''The Pursuit of the Pankera'' and a new edition of ''The Number of the Beast''<ref>{{cite book | last = Heinlein | first = Robert | title = The number of the beast : a parallel novel about parallel universes | publisher = CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor Publishers | location = Rockville, NY | year = 2020 | isbn = 978-1647100032 }}</ref> were published in March 2020. The new edition of the latter shares the subtitle of ''The Pursuit of the Pankera'', hence entitled ''The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arcmanormagazines.com/six-six-six|title=six-six-six|website=Arc Manor Magazines|access-date=February 26, 2019|archive-date=February 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204180059/https://www.arcmanormagazines.com/six-six-six|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://file770.com/pixel-scroll-6-20-19-mamas-dont-let-your-pixels-grow-up-to-be-scrollers/|title = Pixel Scroll 6/20/19 Mamas, Don't Let Your Pixels Grow up to be Scrollers|date = June 21, 2019|access-date = June 23, 2019|archive-date = June 23, 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190623204359/http://file770.com/pixel-scroll-6-20-19-mamas-dont-let-your-pixels-grow-up-to-be-scrollers/|url-status = live}}</ref>