* Savate was mentioned in Robert Heinlein's book Starship Troopers.

Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers ( 1959 ) is another pivotal early work of military SF, along with Gordon Dickson's Dorsai ( 1960 ), and these are thought to be mostly responsible for spreading this sub-genre's popularity among young readers of the time.

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.

Despite the name, alien Kafer ( bugs ) are not similar to the Bugs of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

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.

* Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, October, November 1959, serialized as " Starship Soldier ".

Heinlein's Starship Troopers ( 1959 ) is considered the defining work for the concept ; for example, the actors playing the Colonial Marines in Aliens ( 1986 ) were required to read Starship Troopers as part of their training prior to filming.

The Terran Federation is the fictional government of Earth and her space colonies in Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 science fiction novel Starship Troopers.

The term was commonly used by United States soldiers during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, although veterans recall its usage as early as the 1950s ; this is attested by Robert Heinlein's use of the term in his 1959 novel Starship Troopers.

Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers is perhaps one of the best-known and earliest explorations of the " space marine " idea.

A survey squadron travels through a previously uncharted warp point and encounters a hive-like species referred to derisively as the ' Bugs ' ( inspired by the Arachnids in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers ).

The Mobile Infantry ( MI ) is a fictional military force in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers and in the movies Starship Troopers, released in 1997, the 2004 sequel, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, the 2008 film Starship Troopers 3: Marauder and the TV series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles.

Aubrey Cosens was mentioned in Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, albeit misspelled.

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.

Their name is a reference to Rico's Roughnecks from Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

It should not be confused with the Terran Federation of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, although there are some notable similarities.

The series also shares a number of stylistic similarities to Heinlein's Starship Troopers, with substantial didactic portions akin to Starship Troopers ' " History and Moral Philosophy " coursework discussions between the central character and a school mentor.

* 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.

In Heinlein's view, grokking is the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed.

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.

It appeared already in Heinlein's Red Planet and is a major plot element in Greg Bear's Moving Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and S. C. Sykes ' books.

* 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.

Heinlein's archive is housed by the Special Collections department of McHenry Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Critics William H. Patterson, Jr., and Andrew Thornton believe that this is simply an expression of Heinlein's longstanding philosophical opposition to positivism.

The penultimate novel of this period, I Will Fear No Evil, is according to critic James Gifford " almost universally regarded as a literary failure " and he attributes its shortcomings to Heinlein's near-death from peritonitis.

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.

A complete collection of Heinlein's published work, conformed and copy-edited by several Heinlein scholars including biographer William H. Patterson is being published by the Heinlein Trust as the " Virginia Edition ", after his wife.

Robert A. Heinlein's book The Door into Summer is repeatedly mentioned in King's Wolves of the Calla.

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

This novel is Heinlein's only foray into the " alien invasion " genre within science fiction.

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

In the film one of the characters mumbles that Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is " a blatant rip off " of Heinlein's novel.

Eugenics is shown as the wave of the future, and yet it is a eugenics that explicitly rejects racism, and can be reconciled with Heinlein's strongly held belief in cultural relativism.

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.

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

A common criticism of Heinlein's novels commonly is that they are episodic, or have weak or rushed endings.

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.

Heinlein's early political leanings were liberal.

Heinlein's first novel, For Us, The Living ( written 1939 ), consists largely of speeches advocating the Social Credit system, and the early story " Misfit " ( 1939 ) deals with an organization that seems to be Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps translated into outer space.

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 ".

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.

Campbell published an early draft of Heinlein's chart of the series in the March 1941 issue .< ref > Robert A. Heinlein: The Future History Chart

Also appearing already in this early stage of Heinlein's career is the fanatic and dictatorial religious leader Nehemiah Scudder.

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 ".

The story can be viewed as an early manifestation of Heinlein's World as Myth, which featured prominently in his last novels.