This book is notable among the Heinlein juveniles in being the first to be set outside the solar system, but more significantly for its attempt to fold in, in a subtle way, the political commentary and social speculation that had suffused his earlier pulp fiction.

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

* 1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American writer ( d. 1988 )

Robert Anson Heinlein ( ; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988 ) was an American science fiction writer.

Heinlein began his career as a writer of stories for Astounding Science Fiction, a highly respected science fiction magazine, which was edited by John Campbell.

The science fiction writer Frederik Pohl has described Heinlein as “ that greatest of Campbell-era sf writers ”.

Isaac Asimov said that, from the time of his first story, it was accepted that Heinlein was the best science fiction writer in existence.

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth.

The cannon was eventually bequeathed to friend and science fiction writer Brad Linaweaver, after Virginia Heinlein died in 2003.

In 1945, science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein placed an order for one to be delivered to Los Angeles, but the order was never filled.

** Huga Wells-Erb Heinsturbury, a science fiction writer whose unwieldy adopted name is derived from the names Hugo Gernsback, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs ( E. R. B ), Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon and Ray Bradbury.

Print ( c. 1902 ) by Albert Robida showing a futuristic view of air travel over Paris in the year 2000 as people leave the opera. Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein defines science fiction as:

A major writer of the Golden Age Robert Heinlein explicitly incorporated general semantics formulations and themes.

The subtitle appears to be a bow to James Branch Cabell's 1919 novel Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice — a writer and book that Heinlein claimed had influenced him.

Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein described therapeutic waterbeds in his novels Beyond This Horizon ( 1942 ), Double Star ( 1956 ), and Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ).

Lost Legacy ( 1941 ) is a novella by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein.

The volume debuted at MidAmeriCon, the 34th World Science Fiction Convention, where Barr was the convention's Fan Guest of Honor, along with Robert A. Heinlein, who was the convention's professional writer Guest of Honor.

The work is the closest that Heinlein, an ex-naval officer and prominent science fiction writer, came to writing an autobiography.

Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein mentioned a Fifth International in several of his depictions of the future.

Others made plans during the 1950s to improve Santa Claus, which received publicity through the writings of American novelist and famed science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein and U. S. pioneer restaurant rater Duncan Hines and through 1961 remailing service advertisements offering to postmark letters from Santa Claus, for a small fee.

In 1950, Santa Claus appeared as a real place in Cliff And The Calories ( 1950 ), a fictional short story by American novelist and famed science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein.

* Science Fiction writer Robert Heinlein references Jojo in " Have Spacesuit, Will Travel ".

Tramp Royale is a nonfiction travelogue by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, describing how he and his wife, Ginny, went around the world by ship and plane between 1953 – 1954.

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

This has been thought to make it suitable for human – computer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ).

Loglan was mentioned in a couple of science fiction works: Robert A. Heinlein ’ s well-known books The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and The Number of the Beast, and Robert Rimmer ’ s utopian book Love Me Tomorrow ( 1978 ).

Buzan says the idea was inspired by Alfred Korzybski's general semantics as popularized in science fiction novels, such as those of Robert A. Heinlein and A. E.

This idea was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in his 1942 story Waldo.

Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought.

In 1953 – 1954, the Heinleins voyaged around the world ( mostly via ocean liner and cargo liner ), which Heinlein described in Tramp Royale, and which also provided background material for science fiction novels set aboard spaceships on long voyages, such as Podkayne of Mars and Friday.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

Although Heinlein had previously written a few short stories in the fantasy genre, during this period he wrote his first fantasy novel, Glory Road, and in Stranger in a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, he began to mix hard science with fantasy, mysticism, and satire of organized religion.

Brian Doherty quotes Heinlein cites William Patterson, saying that best way to gain an understanding of Heinlein is as a " full-service iconoclast, the unique individual who decides that things do not have to be, and won't continue, as they are .” He says this vision is " at the heart of Heinlein, science fiction, libertarianism, and America.

Heinlein is usually identified, along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, as one of the three masters of science fiction to arise in the so-called Golden Age of science fiction, associated with John W. Campbell and his magazine Astounding .< ref >

When he was seventeen, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and said he read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt, but cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his big science fiction influences.

In his fiction Heinlein coined words that have become part of the English language, including " grok " and " waldo ", and popularized the term " TANSTAAFL ".

Heinlein and Virginia had been smokers, and smoking appears often in his fiction, as do fictitious strikable self-lighting cigarettes.

Heinlein seems to have known from the beginning, as if instinctively, technical lessons about fiction which other writers must learn the hard way ( or often enough, never learn ).

Heinlein grew up in the era of racial segregation in the United States and wrote some of his most influential fiction at the height of the US civil rights movement.

* Robert A. Heinlein repeatedly used Mars as a setting for his novels and short stories, including:

Heinlein supported himself at several occupations, including real estate sales and silver mining, but for some years found money in short supply.

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.

Over time, Heinlein wrote many novels and short stories that deviated freely from the Future History on some points, while maintaining consistency in some other areas.

The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

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.

Off the Main Sequence, published in 2005, includes three short stories never before collected in any Heinlein book ( Heinlein called them " stinkeroos ").

* Robert A. Heinlein repeatedly used Martians ( usually, human beings born and bred on Mars ) as characters in his novels and short stories, including Red Planet ( 1949 ), Double Star ( 1956 ), and Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ).

" Blowups Happen " is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein.

The story made a later appearance in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, a collection of short stories published in 1966.

" By His Bootstraps " is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein that plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel.

Coventry is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein and part of his Future History series.

" Delilah and the Space Rigger ", a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, is one of his most explicitly feminist-themed short stories.

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" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein.

" Life-Line " is a short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein.

It made a later appearance in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, a collection of short stories published in 1966, in Expanded Universe in 1980, and in a Baen edition of " The Man Who Sold The Moon ", ISBN 0-671-65623-6, 1987.

" Misfit " is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein.