By His Bootstraps

Overview:

• Title: By His Bootstraps
• Author: Robert A. Heinlein
• Year: 1941
• Type: Short Fiction

Synopsis:

Bob Wilson, while working on his thesis, is visited by "Joe" who appears in his room via a Time Gate. Joe is insistent that Bob go through the Time Gate, and when he refuses, Joe helps him through the Gate himself. When he awakens, he finds himself with Diktor, at least 20,000 years in the future.

Variant Titles:

• 1941. By His Bootstraps

Editions/Publications:

• xxxx. The Menace from Earth (Robert A. Heinlein Signet, ISBN-10: 0451098706, $2.25, 189 pages, Paperback, Collection)
• 1962. The Menace from Earth (April 1962, Robert A. Heinlein Signet, ID: T4306, $0.75, 189 pages, Paperback, Collection)
• 1971. Spectrum 1 (1971, Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest Pan, ISBN-10: 0330027115, £0.30, 317 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
• 1980. The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (1980, Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg Arbor House, Catalog ID: #5754, 753 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
• 1983. The Menace from Earth (1983, Robert A. Heinlein Corgi, ISBN-10: 0552093343, £1.75, 189 pages, Paperback, Collection)

Genres/Themes:

• Time Travel (1 book)

Resources:

• Wikipedia article on By His Bootstraps