Isaac Asimov believed that Heinlein made a swing to the right politically at the same time he married Ginny.

During a meeting of the Council of the Time Scouts, representatives from every major time line and setting written by Heinlein appear, including Glory Road and Starship Troopers ; and a reference is made to other authors ' works as well.

Heinlein made use of his engineering expertise to bring a sense of realism to the story ; for a time during World War II, he was a civilian aeronautics engineer working at a laboratory where pressure suits were being developed for use at high altitudes.

The story was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940, before any nuclear reactors had ever been built, and for its appearance in the 1946 anthology The Best of Science Fiction, Heinlein made some modifications to reflect how a reactor actually worked.

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

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.

These stories were key points in the Future History, so Heinlein gave a rough description of Nehemiah Scudder which made his reign easy to visualize — a combination of John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Huey Long.

Robert A. Heinlein made them the instruments of social upheaval in the 1940 short story The Roads Must Roll.

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 ".

Heinlein made no attempt to build his invention.

A passing reference to Heinlein's marriage forms is made in David Brin's Infinity's Shore, where a sapient bottlenose dolphin crewmember is noted as belonging to a " line marriage, one of the Heinlein forms.

Robert A. Heinlein also made use of this approach, with several of his last works of fiction bringing together key characters that had recurred in various of his previously disjointed timelines.

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.

Heinlein outlines some of his predictions that he made in 1949 ( published 1952 ) and examines how well they stood up to some 15 years of progress in 1965.

Robert Heinlein made a science fiction use of the " blind bard " theme in " The Green Hills of Earth ".

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 decisively ended his juvenile novels with Starship Troopers ( 1959 ), a controversial work and his personal riposte to leftists calling for President Dwight D. Eisenhower to stop nuclear testing in 1958.

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 work on Campbell ’ s All was considerably more than just a re-slanting ; Campbell ’ s story was felt to be unpublishable as it stood, written in a pseudo-archaic dialect ( with occasional inconsistencies ), with no scientific explanations for the apparently miraculous powers of the American super-weapons.

The bulk of Heinlein ’ s work on the novel, e. g., the explanations of the weapons ’ effectiveness and the strategy for the American ’ s rebellion, are missing from All.

Although Heinlein rarely permitted dramatic adaptations of his work, he authorized Douglas L Lieberman to stage Starman Jones at the Goodman Children's Theater in Chicago.

He says that it " represents Robert Heinlein at his finest, giving him scope for the armchair philosophizing that increasingly dominated his mature work, but marrying his polemics to a smartly conceived plot packed with considerable drama.

Heinlein rewrote the work for this appearance.

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.

: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy to Work was an early work by Robert A. Heinlein.

The published version of the novel contains an afterword by Robert James, Ph. D., Heinlein Society member and Heinlein scholar, explaining how the only known surviving typescript of this " lost " work was finally discovered in a garage.

As noted by reviewer Nancy Green, this aspect of the book gives the impression of a draft which Heinlein intended to further work on, but never did.

The original work by Heinlein depicted Jerry as an aging domestic worker rather than soldier.

The story shows Heinlein at an early point in his career, writing lighter humor rather than the darker satires of his later work.

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

A decade after the first RoboCop movie was produced, Neumeier rejoined Paul Verhoeven to work on Starship Troopers, which was adapted from the novel with the same name by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959.

In the U. S. the new trend of science fiction away from gadgets and space opera and toward speculation about the human condition was championed in pulp magazines of the 1940s by authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and by Isaac Asimov, who coined the term social science fiction to describe his own work.

) 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.

Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

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.

* 1987 – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land and Ayn Rand, Anthem

From about 1961 ( Stranger in a Strange Land ) to 1973 ( Time Enough for Love ), Heinlein explored some of his most important themes, such as individualism, libertarianism, and free expression of physical and emotional love.

Heinlein did not publish Stranger in a Strange Land until some time after it was written, and the themes of free love and radical individualism are prominently featured in his long-unpublished first novel, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs.

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.

* 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 ).

Decades before the first computers utilizing this technology were invented, Robert A. Heinlein gave an example of how they might be used in his novel Stranger In A Strange Land ( 1961 ).

Most commonly, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book ; a few representative examples are: " grok " ( to achieve complete intuitive understanding ), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; " McJob ", from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ; " cyberspace ", from Neuromancer by William Gibson ; " nymphet " from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Robert A. Heinlein depicted the technique in several of his works, including Citizen of the Galaxy ( 1957 ) and Gulf ( 1949 ); and mentioned Renshaw in the context of the training of Fair Witnesses in Stranger in a Strange Land.

", Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land ).

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.

It was during this time that the group they formed read Heinlein ’ s science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, which became the inspiration for CAW.

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 ).

Group marriage has been a theme in some works of science fiction — especially the later novels of Robert A. Heinlein, such as Stranger in a Strange Land, Friday, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

* Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in His Own Land, by George E. Slusser.

* Jubal Harshaw, a character in the novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.

* Robert A. Heinlein also mentions her, for example, in his novels The Number of the Beast, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Stranger in a Strange Land, and in the second intermission of Time Enough for Love.

Jubal Harshaw is a fictional character featured in Stranger in a Strange Land, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein.

The phrase is also stated numerous times in the pages of Robert A. Heinlein ’ s science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land and in the Yello song " Domingo.