The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (collection) explained

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Author:	Robert A. Heinlein
Cover Artist:	W.I. van der Poel
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Publisher:	Gnome Press
Release Date:	1959
Media Type:	Print (hardcover)
Pages:	256
Isbn:	9780425050521
Oclc:	4623994

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is a collection of science fantasy short stories by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Published by The Gnome Press in (1959), the collection was also published in paperback under the title 6 × H.

Contents

• "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" (1942)
• "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants" (1957)
• "—All You Zombies—" (1959)
• "They" (1941)
• "Our Fair City" (1948)
• "'—And He Built a Crooked House—'" (1941)

The stories in this collection were also published in The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999).

Reception

Rating it 4.5 stars out of five, Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale described the volume as "a delightful book".^[1]

General sources

• Book: Chalker, Jack L. . Jack L. Chalker

. Jack L. Chalker . Mark Owings . 1998 . The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998 . Westminster, MD and Baltimore . Mirage Press, Ltd . 308.

Notes and References

1. Gale . Floyd C. . February 1961 . Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf . Galaxy Science Fiction . 139–143 .