WALDO & MAGIC, INC.


This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.


Copyright © 1940, 1942, 1950 by Robert A. Heinlein, © 2003 by The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust. Introduction copyright © 2014 by William H. Patterson Jr.. Afterword copyright © 2014 by Tim Powers.


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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data


Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988.

[Waldo]

Waldo & Magic, Inc. / by Robert A. Heinlein.

pages cm.

ISBN 978-1-4767-3635-8 (pbk.)

1. Magic--Fiction. 2. Space travelers--Fiction. I. Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988. Magic, inc. II. Title. III. Title: Waldo and Magic, Inc. IV. Title: Waldo. V. Title: Magic, inc.

PS3515.E288W35 2014

813'.52--dc23

2014000097

Printed in the United States of America


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