* 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.

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.

Heinlein's Starship Troopers is an early example, along with the Dorsai novels of Gordon Dickson.

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.

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 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.

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.

" Heinlein's Razor " has since been defined as variations on Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

The Brain Eaters, a 1958 film directed by Bruno VeSota, bore a number of similarities to Heinlein's novel.

The setting of the novel was revisited by Heinlein in his late-period novel, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, as was the character Hazel Stone, who appeared as a minor character in the Lunar revolution and a central character in Heinlein's earlier book, The Rolling Stones / Space Family Stone ( 1952 ).

Critic Adam Roberts said of the novel: “ It is really quite hard to respond to this masterful book, except by engaging with its political content ; and yet we need to make the effort to see past the ideological to the formal and thematic if we are fully to appreciate the splendour of Heinlein's achievement here .”

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.

The novel is linked to Heinlein's short story, " They ", by the term, " the Glaroon ", and to his earlier novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by referring to the Moon colonies " Luna City " and " Tycho Under ".

Passing references by the lead character to the song " The Green Hills of Earth " three times and to its author, Rhysling, once, have caused some to consider it part of Heinlein's " Future History " series.

The songs were composed and sung by Tom Glazer ; Kenneth Williams played Rhysling as a backwoodsman from the Ozarks, an area not far from Heinlein's Missouri birthplace.

After Heinlein's death, the book was reissued by Del Rey Books as the author originally intended.

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.

An attempt to visit Barsoom takes them to an apparently different version of Mars seemingly under the colonial rule of the British Empire ; but near the end of the novel, Heinlein's recurring character Lazarus Long hints that they had traveled to Barsoom, and that its " colonial " status was an illusion imposed on them by the telepathically adept Barsoomians:

Robert Heinlein's Glory Road features a cameo appearance by such a figure.

In Starspawn by Kenneth Von Gunden, Earth is infiltrated by small parasitic aliens capable of attaching themselves to a human and controlling him or her-similar to the scenario of Heinlein's aforementioned The Puppet Masters-except that the invasion takes place in Medieval England, against the background of knights besieging a castle.

In Heinlein's future society, government is not funded by taxation.

Sue K. Hurwitz said in her review for the School Library Journal that it is " a catalog of Heinlein's sins as an author ; it is sophomoric, sexist, militantly right wing, and excessively verbose ", and comments that the book's ending was " a devastating parody of SF conventions — will have genre addicts rolling on the floor.

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.

Freudianism and psychoanalysis were at the height of their influence during the peak of Heinlein's career, and stories such as Time for the Stars indulged in psychological theorizing.

Unusual for science fiction at the time, but quite typical of Heinlein's works, the novel portrays several competent and intelligent female characters.

Podkayne appears in Heinlein's later novel The Number of the Beast, attending the party at the end along with many other Heinlein characters from previous books.

Heinlein's original title for the novel was The Brass Cannon, replaced with the final title at the publisher's request.

It was reprinted in Heinlein's 1959 collection, The Menace From Earth and in several subsequent anthologies, and is now available in at least two audio editions.

no other writer worked out the scientific minutiae of his settings so fully or so unobtrusively ," praising as well Heinlein's skill at crafting " the human engineering details of each situation.

Heinlein had a cynical view of politics from his experiences on the Upton Sinclair 1934 campaign for Governor of California and his own at the receiving end of dirty tricks during Heinlein's failed 1938 election campaign for the California State Assembly.

The word " Telescreen " also appears in Robert Heinlein's " Space Cadet ", written at the same time as Orwell's book-where it simply refers to an instrument similar to a big television, with none of Orwell's sinister connotations.

* Heinlein's Future History chart at Baen Ebooks

A similar concept, but involving more than two persons at any given time, is described in some detail in Robert Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress as a line marriage.

In Heinlein's projected future, Edward returns to England at the outbreak of war and distinguishes himself in wartime service.

" " Aliens not understanding nudity taboos is at least as old as Heinlein's Stranger and a Strange Land ( sic )…( and ) Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen ... humans are little more than passing sights and smells, but for Starfire, Todd and Harper somehow stand out and matter to her.

Alexei Panshin said that the story "... is a mistake, a sloppy, sentimental fantasy that I suspect was written at the very beginning of Heinlein's career and then went without a buyer until 1957 ".

Grumbles from the Grave is notable for the insight it provides into Heinlein's writing process ( and the editorial / publishing process with which he was often at odds ).

In Heinlein's 1940 short story " Solution Unsatisfactory " a group called " The Fifth Internationalists " takes over the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin ( who was still alive at the time of writing ) and leads the country to an all-out war with the US.

* In Robert A. Heinlein's novel I Will Fear No Evil, the protagonist, Johann Sebastian Bach Smith, at one point refers to himself as " the seventh son of a seventh son, born under a caul.

The feel of the novels is very " Heinleinesque " ( indeed the first book, A Matter For Men, was dedicated to Heinlein ) and one perception of the books is to look at them as an entire life-cycle of a Heinlein Character, a distinctive sort of character usually central in all of Heinlein's novels, with a recognizable set of key personality traits ( common sense, intelligence, fierce independence, and high competence ), albeit at differing ages, sexes, and experience levels.

Given Heinlein's carefully cultivated public persona as a curmudgeon, it is amusing that much of the humor in the book consists of riffs on the idea that Ginny is the hothead, while Robert is the easygoing one, e. g., in a shipboard incident at the captain's table, Robert continues eating his dessert after being doused in salad during a food fight started by Ginny.