For example, Heinlein was the " dean of science fiction writers " because he was " the scientist " of science fiction.

The first novel that Heinlein wrote, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs ( 1939 ), did not see print during his lifetime, but Robert James tracked down the manuscript and it was published in 2003.

After For Us, The Living, Heinlein began selling ( to magazines ) first short stories, then novels, set in a Future History, complete with a time line of significant political, cultural, and technological changes.

There has been speculation that Heinlein's intense obsession with his privacy was due at least in part to the apparent contradiction between his unconventional private life and his career as an author of books for children, but For Us, The Living also explicitly discusses the political importance Heinlein attached to privacy as a matter of principle.

Heinlein did not publish Stranger in a Strange Land until some time after it was written, and the themes of free love and radical individualism are prominently featured in his long-unpublished first novel, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs.

Several Heinlein works have been published since his death, including the aforementioned For Us, The Living as well as 1989's Grumbles from the Grave, a collection of letters between Heinlein and his editors and agent ; 1992's Tramp Royale, a travelogue of a southern hemisphere tour the Heinleins took in the 1950s ; Take Back Your Government, a how-to book about participatory democracy written in 1946 ; and a tribute volume called Requiem: Collected Works and Tributes to the Grand Master, containing some additional short works previously unpublished in book form.

* For Us, The Living ( 1938, published in 2003 ) by Robert A. Heinlein, a futuristic utopian novel explaining practical views on love, freedom, drive, government and economics.

For Us, the Living consists largely of thinly-fictionalized lectures on social credit ( a movement that Heinlein later hid his involvement in ), as well as free love, and criticism of religious fundamentalism.

For nearly 30 years, the firing of the brass cannon, or " signal gun ", was a 4th of July tradition at the Heinlein residence.

For example, in his Tunnel in the Sky settlers set out to the planet " New Canaan ", via an interstellar teleporter portal across the galaxy, in Conestoga wagons, their captain sporting mustaches and a little goatee and riding a Palomino horse — with Heinlein explaining that the colonists would need to survive on their own for some years, so horses are more practical than machines.

For example, as Heinlein has one of his characters point out, a bar offering a free lunch will likely charge more for its drinks.

Robert A. Heinlein described a Social Credit economy in his posthumously-published first novel, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, and his Beyond This Horizon describes a similar system in less detail.

* For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, by Robert A. Heinlein

* Robert A. Heinlein explored the concept of free love throughout his writing career, starting with his first novel For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs in 1939.

: For the Robert A. Heinlein short story collection, see Expanded Universe ( Heinlein ).

For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, written in 1938 but published for the first time in 2003.

At a number of points in For Us, the Living, Heinlein describes an environment in which individuals are able to choose whether or not to accept a job.

For all its craft and its attempt to create an intelligent updating of a Heinlein juvenile, it proves tiresome rather than inspired.

For nearly 30 years, the firing of the brass cannon was a 4 July tradition at the Heinlein residence.

* Time Enough For Love, another novel by Robert Heinlein

** In For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, Robert A. Heinlein describes a future United States of America with liberal social values and a social credit or anti-bank economic system.

For this decision a man must take personal responsibility.

For various reasons, however, poverty and personal inclination among others, he did not take a prominent part in the military operations of this period.

For example, Hume's views on personal identity do not appear.

" For Sakharov the indeterminacy of the future supported his belief that he could, and should, take personal responsibility for it.

For subjectivists probability corresponds to a ' personal belief '.

For example, ancient Hindu religious texts list clairvoyance amongst other forms of ' clear ' experiencing, as siddhis, or ' perfections ', skills that are yielded through appropriate meditation and personal discipline.

For I was not relating my own personal views, but rather the remarks that they Jews are wont to make against us.

For Hitler himself, this explanatory model for World War I was of crucial personal importance.

For the most part, the letter is personal in nature, with only the final two chapters spent addressing issues of doctrine, almost as an aside.

For some, " episcopal churches " are churches that use a hierarchy of bishops that regard themselves as being in an unbroken, personal Apostolic succession.

For people in some remote areas, cash out may be the only way they can withdraw cash from their personal accounts.

For example, Polish has 5 genders, since it has split the masculine into: animate personal ( people ), animate non-personal ( mostly animals ), and inanimate ( things ).

For instance, the Canadian monarch is described by the government as being the personification of the Canadian state and is described by the Department of Canadian Heritage as the " personal symbol of allegiance, unity and authority for all Canadians ".

For example, when looking up a personal name, it may be desirable to ignore the distinction between upper and lower case letters.

For this reason he demands " mutuality " in marriage — the equal right of a woman to her own personal freedom and property.

For example, in highly emotional cases, such as child rape, the jury may be tempted to convict based on personal feelings rather than on conviction beyond reasonable doubt.

For example, when five American soldiers accidentally burned several copies of Quran at nearby Bagram Airfield in February 2012, politicians in Kabul showed their personal anger in the media.

For example, according to the theory of mythopoeic thought, the ancients tended to view things as persons, not as mere objects ; thus, they described natural events as acts of personal gods, thus giving rise to myths.

For the personal name, see Agrippa ( praenomen ).

For example, the personal pronouns in English can be organized into tables, using the categories of person ( first, second, third ), number ( singular vs. plural ), gender ( masculine, feminine, neuter ), and case ( subjective, objective, and possessive ).

For example, ordination of women is universally accepted in the mainline churches, abortion is condemned as a grievous social tragedy but not always a personal sin or a crime against an unborn person, and homosexuality is recognized as a genetic propensity or morally neutral preference that should be neither encouraged nor condemned.

For the purposes of authentication, most countries require commercial or personal documents which originate from or are signed in another country to be notarized before they can be used or officially recorded or before they can have any legal effect.

For Cumberland, human interdependence precludes Hobbes's natural right of each individual to wage war against all the rest for personal survival.

For two years after the bombing the only memorials to the victims were plush toys, crucifixes, letters, and other personal items left by thousands of people at a security fence surrounding the site of the building.

For example, almost no evidence exists for Monroe's personal religious beliefs, though this may be the result of the destruction of most of his personal correspondence, in which religious sentiments may have been recorded.