About the Author[]
- Other Names: Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York
- Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
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Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. He has been both widely praised and criticized - and continues to entertain and annoy decades after his death in 1988. He's been called both a visionary[1] and a fascist;[2] his work both dated[3] and timeless[4]. Many scientists and engineers who built the world's first spacecraft (as well as today's space-tourism entrepreneurs and customers) cite his novels as their inspiration. There's a copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress on the International Space Station.[5]
Quote from John Scalzi on his blog[6]:
Dive into a Heinlein book and you may disagree with it, but you won’t be bored with it. Which annoys the people who hate his politics to no end — he’s a fascist and he’s a good read! How dare he be enjoyable!
Some feminists cite his earlier work, with its atypical competent and very positive female characters, as inspiring, others look at his later work with its, perhaps less well drawn female characters, and despair... (sometimes these two groups are the same people[7]).
(The above article was originally posted by Founder Vaskafdt - April 15, 2010)
More Information[]
Heinlein wrote a number of influential young adult SF books--Starman Jones, and Podakayne of Mars--which are generally freer in their handling of scientific themes than his books for adults. The right wing strain in his thinking produced a classic of McCarthyite paranoid fiction The Puppet Masters, in which the unwary are possessed by alien slugs. He achieved his major fame, not to say notoriety, with two books of the early 1960s--Starship Troopers, which, filmed satirically by Paul Verhoeven, started a whole sub-genre of militarist SF, while Stranger in a Strange Land with its free love and imaginary religions was a favorite of Charles Manson. Perhaps the best book of his later phase is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, one of SF's more intelligent retreads of 1776 in space; the best of his earlier books is Double Star, a flip tale of impersonation and political intrigue on Mars.[8]
- For more biographical information,
- visit Robert A. Heinlein Wikipedia
Series[]
Over the course of his career Heinlein wrote three somewhat overlapping series.
Future History series[]
The Future History, by Robert A. Heinlein, describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century. The term Future History was coined by John W. Campbell Jr. in the February 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Campbell published an early draft of Heinlein's chart of the series in the May 1941 issue.
- For more information and list of titles,
- visit Heinlein Future History Series
Lazarus Long series[]
Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard Foundation, Lazarus (birth name Woodrow Wilson Smith) becomes unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years with the aid of occasional rejuvenation treatments. Heinlein "patterned" Long on science fiction writer Edward E. Smith, mixed with Jack Williamson's fictional Giles Habibula.
- For more information and list of titles,
- visit Lazarus Long Wikipedia
The Heinlein juveniles[]
Heinlein juveniles are the young adult novels written by Robert A. Heinlein. The twelve novels were published by Scribner's between 1947 and 1958, which together tell a single story of space exploration. A thirteenth, Starship Troopers, was submitted to Scribner's but rejected and instead published by Putnam. A fourteenth novel, Podkayne of Mars, is often listed as a "Heinlein juvenile", although Heinlein himself did not consider it to be one.
- For more information and list of titles,
- visit Heinlein Juveniles Wikipedia
Other Works[]
- For his complete Bibliography,
- visit Robert A. Heinlein Bibliography
References[]
- ↑ George Ziemann http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=943&dat=19880517&id=-K1PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eVMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6940,1621003
- ↑ Charles Hauther http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/09/entertainment/ca-heinlein9
- ↑ LEE SANDLIN http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-robert-a-heinlein-by-william-h-patterson-jr-1403904500
- ↑ http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/starship-troopers-robert-a-heinlein/1100171692?ean=9780441783588
- ↑ http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2006/10/little-lightweight-reading.html
- ↑ http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/12/10/the-zombie-robert-heinlein-rises-from-the-grave-yet-again-to-annoy-the-politically-correct/
- ↑ M. G. Lord http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02lord.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
- ↑ https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/robert-heinlein/ Fantastic Fiction]
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