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.

Heinlein's first novel published as a book, Rocket Ship Galileo, was initially rejected because going to the moon was considered too far out, but he soon found a publisher, Scribner's, that began publishing a Heinlein juvenile once a year for the Christmas season.

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 ".

This theme is echoed elsewhere in Heinlein's works — that real liberty is to be found among the pioneer societies out along the advancing frontier, but the regimentation and legalism that follow bring restraints that chafe true individualists ( an idea emphasized in the first and final page of the novel, and in the later book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls ).

Published in 1939, it was Heinlein's first published short story.

It represents the first appearance of Heinlein's idealized Martian elder race ( see also Stranger in a Strange Land ).

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson characterized Red Planet as Heinlein's first genuinely successful effort in the sequence, saying that " Heinlein found his true direction.

The stories, part of Heinlein's Future History series, appear in the first edition as follows:

The character of Nehemiah Scudder, the " First Prophet " of the regime, appeared in Heinlein's first novel ( never published in his lifetime ), For Us, The Living.

* Several of Robert A. Heinlein's books and stories in the 1940s and 1950s featured a Space Patrol, first appearing in " Solution Unsatisfactory "

In Methuselah's Children, Long mentions visiting Hugo Pinero, the scientist appearing in Heinlein's first published story " Life-Line ", who had invented a machine that precisely measured lifespan, but who failed to determine Long's age and suggested that the machine is broken.

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 A. Heinlein's first published short story appears in Astounding Magazine.

The label first came into wide use after many science fantasy stories were published in the pulp magazines, such as Robert A. Heinlein's Magic, Inc. and L. Ron Hubbard's Slaves of Sleep.

In his pioneering paper, Minsky wrote: " My first vision of a remote-controlled economy came from Robert A. Heinlein's prophetic 1948 novel, Waldo.

Heinlein admirer and science fiction author Spider Robinson titled his introductory essay " RAH DNA ", as he believes this first, unpublished novel formed the DNA of Heinlein's later works.

Robert Heinlein's first novel For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs describes a near future United States operating according to the principles of Social Credit.

" — Heinlein's remark after receiving a $ 70 US check for his first published story on page 3.

While not part of Heinlein's Future History, the story also marks the first appearance of a " Patrol " in Heinlein's works.

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.

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.

* 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.

* Nehemiah Scudder, the fictional antagonist in Robert A. Heinlein's short novel If This Goes On —

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

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

* 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.

Heinlein's novel also repeatedly makes explicit the analogy between the mind-controlling parasites and the Communist Russians, echoing the then prevailing Second Red Scare in the United States.

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

Heinlein's original version of the novel was 96, 000 words, and was cut to about 60, 000 words for both the 1951 book version and the serialization in Galaxy.

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

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.

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.

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.

Groff Conklin described the novel as " one of Heinlein's most enchanting tales.

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.

Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the novel, finding it " an excellent example of Heinlein's ability to take one of the oldest plots in any literature.

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 ).