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 ".

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.

In 1957, James Blish wrote that one reason for Heinlein's success " has been the high grade of machinery which goes, today as always, into his story-telling.

During his early period, Heinlein's writing for younger readers needed to take account of both editorial perceptions of sexuality in his novels, and potential perceptions among the buying public ; as critic William H. Patterson has put it, his dilemma was " to sort out what was really objectionable from what was only excessive over-sensitivity to imaginary librarians ".

The book has a strong feeling of verisimilitude because so much of it is based on Heinlein's real-life experiences.

Kimmel cites Heinlein's “ colloquial language .. an extrapolated lunar creole that has arisen from the forced intersection of multiple cultures and languages in the lunar penal colonies ”; the protagonist's disability ; “ the frank treatment of alternative family structures ”; and “ the computer which suddenly wakes up to full artificial intelligence, but rather than becoming a Monster that threatens human society and must be destroyed as the primary Quest of the story, instead befriends the protagonist and seeks to become ever more human, a sort of digital Pinocchio .”

Heinlein's vivid depiction of a Heaven ruled by snotty angels and a Hell where everyone has a wonderful, or at least productive, time — with Mary Magdalene shuttling breezily between both places — is a satire on American evangelical Christianity.

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson noted that Farmer in the Sky " has harsh realism for a juvenile.

Placing the robotic camera in a perspective that allows intuitive control is a recent technique that although based in Science Fiction ( Robert A. Heinlein's Waldo 1942 ) has not been fruitful as the speed, resolution and bandwidth have only recently been adequate to the task of being able to control the robot camera in a meaningful way.

It has also been considered to be a critical response to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, a book with a similar setting, often considered pro-military.

For his part, Haldeman has played down this claim in several interviews, even going so far as to praise Heinlein's work on its own merits and to name him as one of his own favorite authors.

In a 1977 review of the original ( 1976 ) Avalon Hill game, Martin Easterbrook stated that " All in all this is probably the best SF game currently on the market because it has the well worked out background of Heinlein's novel and because it is an extrapolation of current military technology, allowing Avalon Hill to use their experience in game design " and gave the game an overall 9 / 10 rating.

The concept of the hydration system appeared in Robert A. Heinlein's 1955 novel, Tunnel in the Sky, where the main character has " a belt canteen of flexible synthetic divided into half-litre pockets.

It has some superficial similarities with Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers ( such as the military use of exoskeletons and insect-like alien enemies ) but concentrates more on the psychological effects of violence on human beings rather than on the political aspects of the military, which was the focus of Heinlein's novel.

" Heinlein's imaginary lunar society has a very weak central government.

* 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.

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.

Two of his novels, The Sky So Big and Black and The Duke of Uranium have been reviewed as having content appropriate for a young adult readership, comparing favorably to Robert A. Heinlein's " juvenile " novels.

Heinlein's flat cats are often said to have been the inspiration for The Trouble with Tribbles, an episode of the Star Trek television series.

* Lawrence Smythe (" The Great Lorenzo ") was in Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction book Double Star ( 1956 ) hired to impersonate the politician and leader of the opposition Joseph Bonforte who had been injured in an attack by political opponents.

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.

Heinlein's experience in the military exerted a strong influence on his character and writing.

Heinlein's surgical treatment re-energized him, and he wrote five novels from 1980 until he died in his sleep from emphysema and heart failure on May 8, 1988.

They went on to say that " No one ever dominated the science fiction field as Bob did in the first few years of his career .” Alexi expresses awe in Heinlein's ability to show readers a world so drastically different than the one we live in now, yet have so many similarities.

Though some regarded as a failure as a novel, considering it little more than a disguised lecture on Heinlein's social theories, some readers took a very different view.

The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.

The novel was published as a collaboration, with Heinlein's name above Robinson's on the cover, in 2006.

Peers such as L. Sprague DeCamp and Damon Knight have commented critically on Heinlein's portrayal of incest and pedophilia in a lighthearted and even approving manner.

* 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.

A more complete discussion of race in Heinlein's fiction is given in the main article on Heinlein.

* Mary, born Allucquere in a religious commune on Venus, is Heinlein's classic heroine.

Greene had originally submitted a radio script for " Tom Ranger and the Space Cadets " on January 16, 1946, but it remained unperformed when Heinlein's novel was published.

The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Much of the description of the voyage is based on Heinlein's own experiences as a naval officer and world traveler.

* 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.

Widely admired for its credible presentation of a comprehensively imagined future human society on both the Earth and the moon, it is generally considered one of Heinlein's major novels as well as one of the most important science fiction novels ever written.

" He went on to praise Heinlein's characters, especially Mannie.

While it is included in collections of Future History stories and appears on Heinlein's timeline chart, " The Long Watch " does not appear to share continuity with the history, but with Space Cadet published a year earlier.

Although the science fiction film Destination Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo, the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to The Man Who Sold the Moon, whose copyright date shows that it was written in 1949, although it wasn't published until 1951, the year after Destination Moon came out.

The story is interesting, in a broader political sense, and in the context of the rest of Heinlein's writing, because it provides an example of a libertarian author arguing against labor unions – here justified because the union in question is in a vital government-run public service industry on which the broader society as a whole is dependent.

Admirers of Heinlein were critical of the movie, which they considered a betrayal of Heinlein's philosophy, presenting the society in which the story takes place as fascist.

* 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.

A defining quote from the book which is repeated throughout Heinlein's work is, " An armed society is a polite society ", is very popular with those who support the personal right to keep and bear arms.

Clark's ploy is taken from a real-life incident related in Heinlein's Tramp Royale in which his wife answers the same question with " heroin " substituted for the fictitious but equally illegal happy dust.

It is believed that this cannon was the inspiration for Heinlein's original title for the work which eventually became The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

The story is, in many ways, fairly typical of Heinlein's work in this vein: He was working hard to present Life Off Earth in a positive light, in hopes of luring humanity into investing in the Space Program, which was one of his major interests.

This was edited and changed by Heinlein's publishers, as was a discussion early in the novel in which MacRae expresses strong support for adults and older children being free to carry handguns, and opposition to any government which would restrict that.

P. Schuyler Miller, reviewing the original edition, praised the novel's " verisimilitude, the attention to detail which Heinlein's adult readers know well.

Lazarus also appears as a minor character in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and plays a role in Heinlein's last novel, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, which is the life story of Maureen.

The phrase and the acronym are central to Robert Heinlein's 1966 libertarian science fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which popularized it.

During that period, he also edited Grosset & Dunlap's Science Fiction Classics series, which he conceived as an inexpensive alternative to hard-to-find small-press editions of such titles as Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon and Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, although the first title in the series ( Henry Kuttner's Fury ) was that story's first book publication.

Robert Heinlein's Science Fiction novel " Farmer in the Sky ", which depicts future colonists on Ganymede and takes up consciously many of the themes of the 19th century American frontier and homesteading, also includes a character who is known as " Johnny Appleseed " and like the historical one is involved in planting and spreading apple trees.

One of the most famous early versions was Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel Starship Troopers, which can be seen as spawning the entire sub-genre concept of military " powered armor ," which would be further developed in Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.

Some early portal appearances in science fiction include A. E. van Vogt's novella Secret Unattainable ( July 1942 Astounding ), a radio episode of Space Patrol which aired October 25, 1952 ( in which it was called a " cycloplex " or a " hole in space "), and Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky ( 1955 ) and its " Ramsbotham jump ".

In Robert A. Heinlein's " juvenile " novel, Citizen of the Galaxy, the protagonist was adopted by the captain of an interstellar trading ship which was named, " Sisu ".