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

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.

* 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 ).

In Have Space Suit — Will Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein, the main character's father is an obsessive fan of the book, and spends much of his spare time repeatedly re-reading it.

Perhaps because of this, it was the last short story Heinlein wrote ; the remaining quarter-century of his career was devoted to writing novels and non-fiction essays.

It included works by Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, T. S. Stribling, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ambrose Bierce, and H. G. Wells.

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 won Hugo Awards for four of his novels ; in addition, fifty years after publication, three of his works were awarded " Retro Hugos "— awards given retrospectively for years in which Hugo Awards had not been awarded.

In a review of it, John Clute wrote: “ I ’ m not about to suggest that if Heinlein had been able to publish works openly in the pages of Astounding in 1939, SF would have gotten the future right ; I would suggest, however, that if Heinlein, and his colleagues, had been able to publish adult SF in Astounding and its fellow journals, then SF might not have done such a grotesquely poor job of prefiguring something of the flavor of actually living here at the onset of 2004 .”

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.

Gary Westfahl points out that " Heinlein is a problematic case for feminists ; on the one hand, his works often feature strong female characters and vigorous statements that women are equal to or even superior to men ; but these characters and statements often reflect hopelessly stereotypical attitudes about typical female attributes.

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.

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

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.

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.

During the 1940s and 1950s, general semantics entered the idiom of science fiction, most notably through the works of A. E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A and its sequels, and Robert A. Heinlein, Gulf.

Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there are earlier citations: a piece in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1889, used the term in reference to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 and other works ; and one in the May, 1900 issue of The Bookman said that John Uri Lloyd's Etidorhpa, The End of the Earth had " created a great deal of discussion among people interested in speculative fiction ".

During high school, he read science fiction and became a fan of Robert Heinlein, whose libertarianism shaped his own ideology, as did the works of Ayn Rand.

Robert A. Heinlein contributed to the screenplay for Destination Moon in 1950, but none of his major works were adapted for the screen until the 1990s: The Puppet Masters in 1994 and Starship Troopers in 1997.

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.

The TV show popularized the phrase in the 1960s, and many variations of it were used as titles for other works such as Have Space Suit – Will Travel by Robert Heinlein.

There are also references to works of the science fiction canon: the title and characters conform to the mold established by Robert A. Heinlein in the 1940s and 50s that constituted the " Golden Age " of science fiction.

Applewhite also read science fiction, including works by Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.

Heinlein admirer and science fiction author Spider Robinson titled his introductory essay " RAH DNA ", as he believes this first, unpublished novel formed the DNA of Heinlein's later works.

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.

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.

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

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

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 ).

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 ).

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.

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.

McConnell's experiments were later discredited, but ideas drawn from them were used in science fiction by several authors, including Heinlein, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman and Dean Koontz.

Fourteen years later, Heinlein published The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which tells the story of that conflict, including the small but vital role that Hazel Stone played as a child.

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.

In The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980, positronic brains are mentioned fleetingly in chapter 46 as a threatened replacement for Dora, a space yacht's computer from various others of Heinlein's books, including The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

Robert A. Heinlein has received the most Hugos for Best Novel as well as the most nominations, with five wins ( including one Retro Hugo ) and eleven nominations.

Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X ( 1950 – 51 ), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

Most editions of the collection include a timeline showing the chronology of the stories ( including stories never written, such as " The Stone Pillow ", which was to occur during the period of the theocracy ), time of birth and death of the significant characters, and commentary by Heinlein.

L-Ron was originally the robot companion of Manga Khan, ( L-Ron is named after the science fiction author L Ron Hubbard ), at the time Manga Khan also had other robots named after famous figures in science fiction including Commander Sooroo, Captain Krikk ( Justice League International # 14 ), Hein-9 ( Named after Robert A. Heinlein, Justice League International # 20 ) and K-Dikk ( named after Philip K. Dick, Justice League International # 21 ) amongst others.

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.