It won a number of awards on first publication and is frequently compared with works of Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury, although these references appear to be given as a measure of quality rather than a note of similarity in style.

** Huga Wells-Erb Heinsturbury, a science fiction writer whose unwieldy adopted name is derived from the names Hugo Gernsback, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs ( E. R. B ), Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon and Ray Bradbury.

* Hugo Award: Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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.

Alexei Panshin, a Hugo Award-winning author, writes the following about " Gulf " in his nonfiction book Heinlein in Dimension:

Famous examples of self-insertion include Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy, Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales, Paul Auster's appearance in his New York Trilogy, Robert A. Heinlein in his The Number of the Beast, Victor Hugo in his Les Misérables, John Fowles in his The French Lieutenant's Woman, Kurt Vonnegut in his Breakfast of Champions and " Slaughterhouse-Five ", and Stephen King's rendition of himself in the Dark Tower novels.

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.

* Robert A. Heinlein, set the standard for scientific and engineering plausibility

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

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.

This has been thought to make it suitable for human – computer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ).

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

* 1998 – Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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

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

Heinlein himself ran for the California State Assembly in 1938, but he was unsuccessful.

In 1953 – 1954, the Heinleins voyaged around the world ( mostly via ocean liner and cargo liner ), which Heinlein described in Tramp Royale, and which also provided background material for science fiction novels set aboard spaceships on long voyages, such as Podkayne of Mars and Friday.

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 ).

In the mid-1970s, Heinlein wrote two articles for the Britannica Compton Yearbook.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

The novels that Heinlein wrote for a young audience are commonly referred to as " the Heinlein juveniles ", and they feature a mixture of adolescent and adult themes.

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.

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.

It concludes with a traditional Heinlein note, as in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Time Enough for Love that freedom is to be found on the frontiers.

Spider Robinson, a colleague, friend, and admirer of Heinlein, wrote Variable Star, based on an outline and notes for a juvenile novel that Heinlein prepared in 1955.

Over the course of his career Heinlein wrote four somewhat overlapping series.

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.

After For Us, The Living, Heinlein began selling ( to magazines ) first short stories, then novels, set in a Future History, complete with a time line of significant political, cultural, and technological changes.

Over time, Heinlein wrote many novels and short stories that deviated freely from the Future History on some points, while maintaining consistency in some other areas.

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.

After a seven-year hiatus brought on by poor health, Heinlein produced five new novels in the period from 1980 ( The Number of the Beast ) to 1987 ( To Sail Beyond the Sunset ).

It was the first in the Heinlein juveniles, a long and successful series of science fiction novels published by Scribner's.

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

* 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 ).

She is a major character in The Rolling Stones and in later Heinlein novels, most notably The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

Heinlein says that because it was so short it was much harder to write than writing novels.

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.

" The Green Hills of Earth " is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, and the title of a song, " The Green Hills of Earth ", mentioned in several of his novels.

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson characterized Red Planet as Heinlein's first genuinely successful effort in the sequence, saying that " Heinlein found his true direction.

Robert A. Heinlein used the concept of guided meteors in two novels.

Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein.

Beginning with the 1941 novels Universe and Common Sense by Robert A. Heinlein, a common theme is that inhabitants of a generation ship have forgotten they are on a ship at all, and believe their ship to be the entire universe.

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 ).