Heinlein also makes it a point that this family is racially diverse.

Heinlein makes clear in the novel that the attack on Klendathu is undertaken despite calls for additional defensive forces on the home world.

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.

Other Heinlein novels where Harshaw makes an appearance include:

The 1982 Library Journal review said that Heinlein " returns to an earlier style of brisk adventure mixed with polemic in the saga of special courier Friday Jones.

Konkin was editor and publisher of the irregularly produced New Libertarian Notes ( 1971-1975 ), the New Libertarian Weekly ( 1975-1978 ), and finally New Libertarian magazine ( 1978-1990 ), the last issue of which was a special science fiction tribute featuring a Robert A. Heinlein cover ( issue 187, 1990 ).

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

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 ).

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.

One admirer of Heinlein has said that the society depicted in the film showed only a superficial resemblance to the society that Heinlein describes in his book.

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called Requiem: Collected Works and Tributes to the Grand Master, containing some additional short works previously unpublished in book form.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 ").

It has been suggested that the strongly hierarchical and anti-individualistic " Bugs " in Starship Troopers were meant to represent the Chinese or Japanese, but Heinlein claimed to have written the book in response to " calls for the unilateral ending of nuclear testing by the United States.

" Heinlein suggests in the book that the Bugs are a good example of Communism being something that humans cannot successfully adhere to, since humans are strongly defined individuals, whereas the Bugs, being a collective, can all contribute to the whole without consideration of individual desire.

Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles.

P. Schuyler Miller reviewed the novel favorably, saying " in true Heinlein manner the basic theme of the book smashes the screen of action only in the closing pages.

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.

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.

This book, along with Starship Troopers, shows Heinlein moving away from his old, comfortable territory of juvenile science fiction novels.

On a less serious level, Heinlein anticipated, by over forty years, television ads in taxicabs ( in the book, holographic ), which have since been implemented in taxicabs in major cities worldwide.

The story bears many similarities in plot and concepts to Variable Star written by Spider Robinson from an incomplete outline created by Heinlein around the time this book was written, and published in 2006.

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 ).

In his book Learning the World, Ken MacLeod pays homage to Heinlein by having a spacecraft evade an attack with the background intercom saying " All Hands!

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.

As in much of the popular fiction that Heinlein would have been familiar with in his youth ( e. g., Tarzan and The Virginian ), the theme is that the wilderness acts as a magnifying glass to amplify the inherent differences between the best and the worst of the human race.

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.

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.

As early as 1940, science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein wrote Solution Unsatisfactory in which he described a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Apparently both true believers and non-believers, and perhaps some agnostics, have found sustenance in Heinlein ’ s prodigious output .”

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.

However, Heinlein was a vocal proponent of the notion that juvenile readers were far more sophisticated and able to handle more complex or difficult themes than most people realized.

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.

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.

A more complete discussion of race in Heinlein's fiction is given in the main article on Heinlein.

P. Schuyler Miller, noting that the novel's " climactic situations seem to be telegraphed ", suggested that Heinlein presented his background situations so effectively that readers solve the story's mysteries more quickly than Heinlein allowed his characters to.

Robert A. Heinlein wrote stories under pseudonyms so that more of his works could be published in a single magazine.

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.

For example, in his Tunnel in the Sky settlers set out to the planet " New Canaan ", via an interstellar teleporter portal across the galaxy, in Conestoga wagons, their captain sporting mustaches and a little goatee and riding a Palomino horse — with Heinlein explaining that the colonists would need to survive on their own for some years, so horses are more practical than machines.

For example, as Heinlein has one of his characters point out, a bar offering a free lunch will likely charge more for its drinks.

Haldeman, however, noted that he received a letter from Heinlein congratulating him on his Nebula Award which " meant more than the award itself " and author Spider Robinson claimed that Heinlein approached Haldeman at the award banquet and said the book " may be the best future war story I've ever read!

However, in his earlier book dealt with here, Heinlein was far more cautious, placing the first circumlunar flight ( not yet an actual landing ) only in 2089.

While Heinlein's talent was still developing, and the story's rough edges reflect that, Heinlein saw Social Credit as the path to a utopia where poverty is eliminated and we live in a more balanced and less abusive economic and social settlement.

While Hostile Takeover is an example of libertarian science fiction in the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein and L. Neil Smith, its portrayal of society on the planet Bakunin is arguably much more critical of the basic premise of anarchism than is typical of the genre, coming close to a libertarian dystopia.

" In a then unheard-of move, Tomino instructed Okawara to design more " realistic ," practically-designed title mecha for the series, closer to lines of the " powered armor " described in the Robert A. Heinlein novel " Starship Troopers ," rather than the fanciful iron giants depicted since the airing of Mazinger Z.

Lack of returning characters is even more evident when the film is compared to the original Heinlein book.

With a script co-written by Robert A. Heinlein and astronomical sets by renowned space artist Chesley Bonestell, the film was a commercial and artistic success, and it brought about more studio financing of science fiction film.