The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

First Edition cover
Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Cover artist	W.I. van der Poel
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fantasy
Publisher	Gnome Press
Publication 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]

Citations

General sources

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

External links

• The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag at Open Library

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