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, the Heinlein juveniles, a set of 12 books that includes Starship Troopers

The chart published in the collection Revolt in 2100 includes several unwritten stories, which Heinlein describes in a postscript.

CAW was formed in 1962, evolving from a group of friends and lovers who were in part inspired by a fictional religion of the same name in the science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; the church's mythology includes science fiction to this day.

* Robert A. Heinlein wrote a variant verse for " those who venture into space " in his short story " Ordeal in Space "

Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens ' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.

Heinlein and his wife Virginia spent hours in research, fiercely dedicated to getting it right for their readers.

Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to

Robert A. Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel Friday " to ... Vonda, ...".

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.

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.

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.

Waldo & Magic, Inc. is a book containing those two novellas, one science fiction, one fantasy, by Robert A. Heinlein.

It also illustrates Jerry Pournelle's convictions, which echo those of Robert A. Heinlein, that democracy is not the only proper form of government, nor is it always the best given the realities of economics and ecology.

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 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.

His admirers have ranged from Madalyn Murray O ' Hair, the founder of American Atheists, to members of the Church of All Worlds, who hail Heinlein as a prophet.

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.

The original idea for the story of Sixth Column was proposed by John W. Campbell ( who had written a similar unpublishable story called All ), and Heinlein later wrote that he had " had to reslant it to remove racist aspects of the original story line " and that he did not " consider it to be an artistic success.

) George Zebrowski, in his afterword to the story, speculates that Heinlein was parodying Campbell in the character of Calhoun, who goes insane and actually believes the false religion created by the Americans.

Rocket Ship Galileo is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1947, about three teenagers who participate in a pioneering flight to the Moon.

Space Cadet is a 1948 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about Matt Dodson, who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System.

Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.

Heinlein, who intended as a young man to become an astronomer, describes Max as a boy who can tell time by looking at the position of the stars in the sky, and who becomes an astrogator.

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.

Clearly, Swift's idea of having another species domesticate mankind was anathema to Heinlein ( who did not hesitate to point out weaknesses of both human and alien characters in his works ), and this part of the book expresses his vociferous rebuttal.

The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his late father's extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be.

The adventures of Maureen are a series of sexual ones, starting with Heinlein describing her as a young girl who, having just had her first sexual intercourse, is examined by her father, a doctor, and finds herself desiring him sexually.

Writing in 1957, however, Blish says that " The only first-person narrator Heinlein has created who is a living, completely independent human being is The Great Lorenzo of Double Star.

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 ).

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.

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.

Many well-known science fiction writers were to follow, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clifford Simak, plus Robert A. Heinlein who wrote The Puppet Masters in 1953.

After his death, his wife Virginia Heinlein issued a compilation of Heinlein's correspondence and notes into a somewhat autobiographical examination of his career, published in 1989 under the title Grumbles from the Grave.

Robert A. Heinlein in his 1957 novel The Door into Summer suggested the possibility of a robotic Drafting Dan.

As with Heinlein, some authors simply write a detailed future history and accept the fact that events will overtake it, making the sequence into a de facto alternate history.

Scientific progress is satirized as often as it is glorified, and Heinlein displays his disdain for positivism, as his protagonist convinces the society's leaders to plow vast amounts of money into research on topics such as telepathy and the immortality of the soul.

Heinlein later expanded another of these anecdotes into " The Long Watch ".

Most of these readers favored the sad ending, partly because they felt Heinlein should have been free to create his own story, and partly because they believed that the changed ending turned a tragedy into a mere adventure, and not a very well constructed one at that.

As in many of his later works, Heinlein refers to the idea of solipsism, but in this book develops it into an idea he called " World as Myth " — the idea that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that all fictional worlds are in fact real.

* The novel I Will Fear No Evil ( 1970 ) by Robert A. Heinlein features an elderly wealthy man who has his brain transplanted into the body of his deceased secretary.

Robert Heinlein introduced the term " winchell " into the American vocabulary, as a term for a politically intrusive gossip columnist.

In the Future History, Heinlein assumed that long before the end of the 20th century an extensive human exploration and colonization would take place all over the Solar System ; the same assumption was made also in other works not fitting into the Future History's framework.

Heinlein made no explicit remark on this, but a causal connection could be made: in the Future History the bold individualistic Americans emigrated into space in the end of the Twentieth Century, and were not present in America to stop it from falling into the fanatic's hands ".

Someone — it could have been only Heinlein — had washed his face and combed his hair and turned whatever it was that Robert might have wanted to say into the equivalent of thank-you notes for a respectable English tea.

However, through one of his characters, Heinlein seems to posit near the end of his book that a true anarcho-capitalist society is inherently unattainable, and will eventually devolve into a traditional statist society.