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Life-Line
Sign in to save"Life-Line" is a short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein. Published in the August 1939 edition of Astounding, it was Heinlein's first published short story.
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- Author
- Gregory Howard Williams
- First published
- 1995
- Editions
- 5
- Subjects
- Social conditions, African American lawyers, African Americans, Childhood and youth, Biography, Nonfiction, Sociology, Afro-Americans
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Genre
- science fiction
- Series
- Future History
- Followed by
- "Let There Be Light"
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- published in
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact
- publication date
- 1939-08-01
- inception
- 1939-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- form of creative work
- short story
- title
- Life-Line
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"Life-Line" is a short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein. Published in the August 1939 edition of Astounding, it was Heinlein's first published short story.
The protagonist, Professor Hugo Pinero, builds a machine that will predict how long a person will live. It does this by sending a signal along the world line of a person and detecting the echo from the far end. Professor Pinero's invention has a powerful impact on the life insurance industry, as well as on his own life.
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