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In Robert Heinlein's novel Glory Road, the hero, Scar Gordon, reads a book of magic by Albertus Magnus and comments on love magic involving a wolf's burned hair.
* Robert A. Heinlein's short story " By His Bootstraps "
* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.
Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.
* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.
* Nehemiah Scudder, the fictional antagonist in Robert A. Heinlein's short novel If This Goes On —
Robert A. Heinlein's 1949 novella Gulf offered a more neutral view of their use in general postal delivery.
Robert A. Heinlein's book The Door into Summer is repeatedly mentioned in King's Wolves of the Calla.
* Savate was mentioned in Robert Heinlein's book Starship Troopers.
* Robert A. Heinlein's book Tramp Royale ( about a world trip in 1953-54, unpublished until 1992 ) devoted an entire chapter to his ( almost ) visit to Tristan da Cunha, arguably the most remote human settlement on earth.
For example, Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress portrays an individualistic and libertarian utopia.
* In Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, computer technician Manuel Davis blames a real bug for a ( non-existent ) failure of supercomputer Mike, presenting a dead fly as evidence.
* Robert A. Heinlein's By His Bootstraps ( 1941 ) features a plot in which a man interacts with different older versions of himself that travel by way of a " Time Gate ", with all the interactions revisited later in the story from the perspective of the now-older man, everything being tied together in a completely self-consistent way.
The term appears to have been coined by John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, in the February 1941 issue of that magazine, in reference to Robert A. Heinlein's Future History.
* Robert A. Heinlein's The Past Through Tomorrow
Wodehouse's Joy in the Morning, William Golding's Rites of Passage, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Surrealist author Gellu Naum's Zenobia and in Robert E. Howard's Conan series, Edward Gorey's " Fletcher and Zenobia ", and Zenobia / Zeena in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story " Logic of Empire " (" You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity "); this was noticed in 1996 ( five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation ) and first referenced in version 4. 0. 0 of the Jargon File, with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of " Heinlein's Razor ".
His name can be seen as an homage both to Rand's hero and to Robert Heinlein's character Mike in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a self-aware computer network that engineers a revolution in a lunar penal colony using the alias Adam Selene.
* In Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar Declaration of Independence is sent to Earth on July 4, 2076 ; much of the book takes place in 2076.
In many of Robert A. Heinlein's books, the settlement of other planets is depicted in ways explicitly modeled on American settlement of the West.
* Sargon, ruler of the Nine Worlds interplanetary empire in Robert Heinlein's 1957 science fiction novel Citizen of the Galaxy
Robert Heinlein's Glory Road features a cameo appearance by such a figure.

Robert and "—
"— We Also Walk Dogs " is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein.
In 1981, Captain Herrick and journalist Robert Scheer re-examined Herrick's ship's log and determined that the first torpedo report from August 4, which Herrick had maintained had occurred — the " apparent ambush "— was in fact unfounded.
Boardman explains that Robert II was subjected to negative propaganda while he was High Steward — David II's followers denigrated his conduct during his lieutenancies and described them as " tyranny "— and again later as king when the supporters of his son John, Earl of Carrick said that Robert was a king lacking drive and accomplishments, weighed down by age and unfit to govern.
Sometimes archival research later identifies the name, as when the " Master of Flémalle "— defined by three paintings in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt — was identified as Robert Campin.
* Robert Nozick suggests knowledge must consist of justified true belief that is " truth-tracking "— belief held in such a way that if it turned out to be false it would not have been held, and vice versa ;
* "— All You Zombies —", a 1959 short story by Robert A. Heinlein
For Lady Chiltern, their marriage is predicated on her having an " ideal husband "— that is, a model spouse in both private and public life that she can worship: thus Sir Robert must remain unimpeachable in all his decisions.
The star architects from that period often built little or their best-known works were " paper architecture "— unbuilt or even unbuildable schemes, yet known through frequent reproduction in architectural magazines, such as the work of Léon Krier, Michael Graves, Aldo Rossi, Robert A. M. Stern, Hans Hollein, and James Stirling.
Dobbins left the group after the audition and was replaced, Gordy renamed the group and hired " Brianbert "— Brian Holland and Robert Bateman's songwriting partnership — to rework the song yet again.
His books include the " Mark Twain Mysteries "— historical whodunits featuring the famous author as a detective — and four books in the " Phule's Company " series, in collaboration with Robert Asprin, best described as " F-Troop in space ".
After debuts in Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and in San Francisco — where the Chronicles Robert Commanday wrote of her appearance in Monteverdi's L ' incoronazione di Poppea, " The means by which Poppea seduces Nero ... could liquefy even stone the way the sensational new mezzo soprano Tatiana Troyanos sang "— she returned to New York to make her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian, closely followed by the Composer, in the spring of 1976.

Robert and All
All the while, Wallace seeks the assistance of Robert the Bruce ( Macfadyen ), the son of nobleman Robert the Elder and a contender for the Scottish crown.
The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.
In 1932 he wrote in a letter to Robert E. Howard: " All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist.
* Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860 – 1914.
He finished Titus Groan and Gormenghast and completed some of his most acclaimed illustrations for books by other authors, including Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark ( for which he was reportedly paid only £ 5 ) and Alice in Wonderland, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Brothers Grimm's Household Tales, All This and Bevin Too by Quentin Crisp and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as well as producing many original poems, drawings, and paintings.
The 20th-century agnostic playwright Robert Bolt portrayed Thomas More as the tragic hero of his 1960 play A Man for All Seasons.
" Another 1929 book reflecting on World War I was Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, as well as Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves.
Good-Bye to All That, an autobiography by Robert Graves, first appeared in 1929, when the author was thirty-four.
All this time the Normans had not ceased ravaging the country ; a brave man was needed to defend it, and finally towards 861, Charles the Bald entrusted it to Robert the Strong, but Robert met his death in 866 in a battle against the Normans at Brissarthe.
Less than two years after the Watergate scandal, Hoffman and Robert Redford starred as Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, respectively, in All the President's Men ( 1976 ).
* All Things Considered, an NPR story, ' Star Wars ' - The Phantom Edit, Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Rodgers from Zap2it. com, July 16, 2001
Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel All the King's Men, the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the corrupt Louisiana Senator Huey Long, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.
It was filmed as All the President's Men in 1976, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
The 1946 novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren described a lobotomy, saying it " would have made a Comanche brave look like a tyro with a scalping knife.
* 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
* Rydell, Robert W., All the World's a Fair.
All surviving Dudley children — Ambrose and Robert with their sisters Mary and Katherine — were restored in blood by Mary's next parliament in 1558.
All the arts of architecture and horticulture were lavished on Burghley House and Theobalds ( which his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for Hatfield House ).
In 1992, Robert Royal wrote 1492 And All That: Political Manipulations of History.
* Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men ( 1946 )
Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).
*" All Sports March " – Robert Farnon
All previous gloved world champs had been white U. S. Citizens ( except for Robert Fitzsimmons, of the United Kingdom ), who only defended their titles against other white opponents.

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