There is rather an extensive introductory section and essay to this book, which is apparently revised and annotated from a previous example. Heinlein talks about SF writers not being prophets, but doing a bit of extrapolation.
A couple of interesting quotes :
"...can you imagine a man being lynched for wasting an ice cube? Try Frank Herbert's Dune World saga, which is not — I judge — prophecy in any sense, but is powerful, convincing, and most ingenious speculation. Living, as I do, in a state which has just two sorts of water, too little and too much — we just finished seven years of drought with seven inches of rain in two hours, and one was about as disastrous as the other — I find a horrid fascination in Dune World, in Charles Einstein's The Day New York Went Dry, and in stories about Biblical-size floods such as S. Fowler Wright's Deluge."
"The greatest crisis facing us is not Russia, not the Atom bomb, not
corruption in government, not encroaching hunger, nor the morals of young.
It is a crisis in the organization and accessibility of human knowledge."
Other than that, a 3.30 average for these.
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein : Free Men - Robert A. Heinlein
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein : Blowups Happen - Robert A. Heinlein
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein : Searchlight - Robert A. Heinlein
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein : Life-Line - Robert A. Heinlein
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein : Solution Unsatisfactory - Robert A. Heinlein
Irradiating the Resistance resistance.
3.5 out of 5
Rocket scientist atomic observational pressure.
3.5 out of 5
Find Blind Betsy.
3 out of 5
"I can tell you when the Black Camel will kneel at your door."
3.5 out of 5
Dead as dust by dust democracy defense.
3 out of 5
4 out of 5
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