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 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.

Heinlein had a cynical view of politics from his experiences on the Upton Sinclair 1934 campaign for Governor of California and his own at the receiving end of dirty tricks during Heinlein's failed 1938 election campaign for the California State Assembly.

After Sinclair's loss, Heinlein became an anti-Communist Democratic activist.

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 ".

After his discharge, Heinlein attended a few weeks of graduate classes in mathematics and physics at the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ), but he soon quit either because of his health or from a desire to enter politics.

When Sinclair gained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California in 1934, Heinlein worked actively in the campaign.

His 1942 novel Rocket to the Morgue, in addition to being a classic locked room mystery, is also something of a roman à clef about the Southern California science fiction culture of the time, featuring thinly-veiled versions of personalities such as Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard and rocket scientist / occultist / fan Jack Parsons.

Heinlein grew up in the era of racial segregation in the United States and wrote some of his most influential fiction at the height of the US civil rights movement.

Heinlein was fascinated by the social credit movement in the 1930s.

For Us, the Living consists largely of thinly-fictionalized lectures on social credit ( a movement that Heinlein later hid his involvement in ), as well as free love, and criticism of religious fundamentalism.

Although Heinlein has been adopted as somewhat of a posterboy by the libertarian movement, the political commentary reveals that Heinlein was far from being a doctrinaire adherent of any particular political philosophy.

In books written as early as 1956, Heinlein dealt with incest and the sexual nature of children.

When he was seventeen, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and said he read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt, but cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his big science fiction influences.

The Future History, by Robert A. Heinlein, describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century.

Campbell published an early draft of Heinlein's chart of the series in the March 1941 issue .< ref > Robert A. Heinlein: The Future History Chart

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

Asimov created the Galactic Empire in the early 1940s based upon the Roman Empire, as a proposal to John W. Campbell, after reading Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire when he was working at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Robert Heinlein.

An early use of the term appears to be by George Perrault, a character in the science fiction book Friday by Robert A. Heinlein:

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

This book and its series are noted as early inspiration by many later science fiction authors including Robert A. Heinlein.

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.

The elaborate scope of Fresco's envisioned future intrigued the science fiction critic, Forest Ackerman, early on, who placed Fresco next to such names as H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Philip Wylie, Hugo Gernsback, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Ray Bradbury.

It appears that Heinlein at least attempted to live in a manner consistent with these ideals, even in the 1930s, and had an open relationship in his marriage to his second wife, Leslyn.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Heinlein was deeply interested in Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics and attended a number of seminars on the subject.