Assignment in Eternity, Part 1

Robert A. Heinlein is widely and justly regarded as the greatest practitioner of the art of science fiction who has ever lived. Here are two of his greatest short novels:

GULF: In which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide what to do with the rest of us...

LOST LEGACY: In which it is proved that we are all members of that league -- or would be, if we but had eyes to see...