Heinlein also served aboard the destroyer in 1933 and 1934, reaching the rank of lieutenant.

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.

It also contained much material that could be considered background for his other novels, including a detailed description of the protagonist's treatment to avoid being banned to Coventry ( a place in the Heinlein mythos where unrepentant law-breakers are sent to experience actual anarchy ).

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.

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.

Sixth Column, also known under the title The Day After Tomorrow, is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, based on a story by editor John W. Campbell, and set in a United States that has been conquered by the PanAsians, a combination of Chinese and Japanese.

Heinlein also assumes that the Russians are running China, " The Russian bureaucrats had even cleaned up China to the point where bubonic plague and typhus were endemic rather than epidemic .".

Gold also did extensive rewriting, to which Heinlein strenuously objected, with only partial success.

Boucher and McComas characterized The Puppet Masters as " a thunderously exciting melodrama of intrigue ", noting that Heinlein displayed " not only his usual virtues of clear logic, rigorous detail-work, and mastery of indirect exposition ", but also unexpected virtues like " a startling facility in suspense devices a powerful ingenuity in plotting ".

The film's plot also resembles that of " The Man Who Sold the Moon ", which Heinlein wrote in 1949 but did not publish until 1951.

" Williamson also noted that Heinlein closed the novel " with a vigorous statement of his unhappiness with ' the historical imperative '" leading to the loss of individual freedom as governmental organizations grew.

Heinlein had also been a U. S. naval officer.

Heinlein, to the contrary, has little good to say of the cruel " centaurs ", who not only butcher and eat their " yahoos " ( and would like to add the Earth variety to their menu ) but also practice systematic euthanasia towards old and weak members of their own species.

A number of scientists, inventors, and science fiction writers have also credited Tom Swift with inspiring them, including Ray Kurzweil, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov.

Col. Campbell is also eventually revealed to be a son of Lazarus Long, a Heinlein character originally introduced in Methuselah's Children and who reappeared in Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

It was also, at the time the story was written and while Heinlein attended, the opening line for all classes at the military and naval academies ( as well as classes for officers at the various service schools ) in the United States.

In the short story, Heinlein also coined the term space marine.

It is also the first story in the retrospective Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master.

The name is also used in Variable Star, a novel outlined by Heinlein but written by Spider Robinson, although this novel diverges from the Future History.

Holly is also one of the many Heinlein characters mentioned in The Number of the Beast ( novel ).

It also shows a typical Heinlein solution of this period: control by an elite military organization whose officers are trained to selflessly serve the greater good.

He also notes that Heinlein successfully predicted urban sprawl driven by cheap and efficient transport, as well as the development of ' pseudopods ' of urban development between communities.

The Rolling Stones ( also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom ) is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein.

Aphoristic collections also make up an important part of the work of some modern authors, such as Josemaría Escrivá ( compiled from other spiritual authors ), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Montaigne, La Rouchefoucauld, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Andrzej Majewski, Mikhail Turovsky, Antonio Porchia, Celia Green, Robert A. Heinlein, Blaise Pascal, E. M. Cioran and Oscar Wilde.

Robert A. Heinlein, in The Number of the Beast, postulated a six-dimensional universe.

Heinlein was always aware of the editorial limitations put in place by the editors of his novels and stories, and while he observed those restrictions on the surface, was often successful in introducing ideas not often seen in other authors ' juvenile SF.

To help maintain the integrity of the Mars surface simulation, on Crew 45 The Moon Society built the R. A. Heinlein Memorial Simulated Pressure Tunnel.

In the book, Heinlein depicts the important structures on Klendathu as subterranean, describes the tunnel interiors as glassy-smooth ; and he makes it clear that there is a capital city somewhere under the surface of the planet.

Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenaged boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed.

In Variable Star, a novel written by Spider Robinson based on an outline by Heinlein, the lead character is a farmer from Ganymede, where there is a Lermer City.

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

Ed Sanders ' book The Family erroneously stated that convicted murderer Charles Manson was a fan of Heinlein and Stranger and adopted many of the terms associated with both including grok and thou art God.

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.

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

Heinlein, a notable writer of science fiction short stories, was one of a group of writers who came to prominence under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr. in his Astounding Science Fiction magazine — though Heinlein denied that Campbell influenced his writing to any great degree.

Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907, to Rex Ivar Heinlein ( an accountant ) and Bam Lyle Heinlein, in Butler, Missouri.

Heinlein was frequently interviewed during his later years by military historians who asked him about Captain King and his service as the commander of the U. S. Navy's first modern aircraft carrier.

MacDonald was a political radical, and Isaac Asimov later recalled that Heinlein was, like her, " a flaming liberal.

In 1934, Heinlein was discharged from the Navy due to pulmonary tuberculosis.

Heinlein was active in Upton Sinclair's socialist End Poverty in California movement in the early 1930s.

Heinlein himself ran for the California State Assembly in 1938, but he was unsuccessful.

Shortly thereafter, the Heinlein couple moved to Colorado, but in 1965 her health was affected by the altitude.

Ginny acted as the first reader of his manuscripts, and she was reputed to be a better engineer than Heinlein himself.

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 ).

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.

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

The first novel that Heinlein wrote, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs ( 1939 ), did not see print during his lifetime, but Robert James tracked down the manuscript and it was published in 2003.