Robert A. Heinlein

By Locus HQ(noreply@blogger.com) Joe Haldeman and John Varley are the winners of the Robert A. Heinlein Award for 2009. The award is for "outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space." Winners are selected by a committee of science fiction authors chaired...

Robert Heinlein What do you think of the current netbook craze? I have a netbook and it perfectly fits my needs. I have a netbook and it's not exactly what ... and more »

Starship Troopers blog) It is narrated as a series of flashbacks — one of only a few Heinlein novels to use that narrative device[11] — and contains large sections of character ...

The film gets the details right, looking and feeling like something right out of Asimov or Heinlein. It also takes a cue from other near future sci-fi of ... and more »

But, they found an answer at Heinlein-Brown Funeral Home in Logan. "When we went down there, they were more than willing to work with us," Rod Reid said. ... and more »

I am a big fan of the very early science fiction, Jules Verne and HG Wells, up through authors such as Heinlein and Clarke. When it comes to modern science ...

Stranger in a Strange Land*, Robert A. Heinlein RR: Let's go back to when you were managing Uncle Sammy. What did you learn? What did you take from it? ...

Fighting the Ghost of My Own Racism Blogcritics.org (blog) Raised in the Deepest of the Deep South. by Robert A. Heinlein Too young to fight in the First World War, but destined to lead the first successful ...

Q: What's the secret to growing hearty mum plants? A: Get good stock, fertilize, lots of water and lots of hoe, hoe, hoeing. Q: Why mums and not other types ...

Moon May Beat Pluto as Coldest Place in Solar System Zikkir World (blog) Robert Heinlein got it right when he dubbed Earth's moon a harsh mistress. NASA's lunar orbiter examined some craters near the lunar south pole that never ... and more »

The committee did approve the removal of a second book to which the parent objected, “The Day After Tomorrow” by Robert A. Heinlein because it was “rather ...

As Robert Heinlein suggests, this usually happened in their third iteration. In general, the success stories in cloud computing are all proprietary (see No. ... and more »

17. Members of the Science Fiction Book Discussion Group will focus on "Red Planet" by Robert Heinlein at 7 pm Sept. 24. Mortgage financing to be focus at librarySayreville Suburban all 2 news articles »

By Locus HQ(noreply@blogger.com) The three winners of the 2009 Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Short Story Contest are as follows: First place: "Under the Shouting Sky", Karl Bunker. Second place: "In the Shadows", Charlie Allery. Third place: "Salvage Sputnik", Sam S. Kepfield.The stories won $5,000, $2,000, and $1,000 re...

 CT For a generation of science fiction fans who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) was a book that changed lives: a huge, bizarre, magical, loosely-knit satire of nearly everything. It recounts the adventures of Valentine ...

By Sphere I started reading Heinlein when I was a schoolkid back in the early 1960s. Heinlein was very popular with my generation. When Stranger in a Strange Land came out, it became the most controversial and most talked about Heinlein book by a very large margin. At least that's the way I remember it.

Heinlein, pulp & greatness I suppose this hinges on what you mean by "best," but it seems like Heinlein is probably at the front of any list. Form Isaac Asimov's memoir in regards to Heinlein: ...From the moment his first story appeared, an awed science fiction world accepted ...

 Australia The story had such a profound effect that eight years later Robert Heinlein dedicated Stranger in a Strange Land, which explores similar themes, to him. Farmer had quit his job in a steel mill to write full time. His first novel, Owe for the Flesh ...

 MD Robert Heinlein is the libertarian’s science fiction author, the businessman’s science fiction author, and the engineer’s science fiction author. His stories featured con men selling the Moon, or lunar colonies rebelling against an overbearing Earth, ...

By chasness Ackerman was born in Los Angeles and by the age of 8 fell in love with science fiction which at that time was in the form of a magazine called “Amazing Stories.” As he grew up he started science fiction fan clubs, worked as a movie projectionist, and even enlisted in the Service. Upon his return h...

By Todd Culbertson A major reason Heinlein wrote the book was to get out of a contract he had with a publisher at the time to write juvenile fiction. He was tired of being limited to writing for kids and teenagers and wanted to be able to say what he wanted. Starship Troopers was violent enough to where the publishe...

By the enemy of fun jinxed_wood as part of the DW/Torchwood/SJA Cliché-Swap Ficathon, taking the Jack/Ianto cliché "You get the stopwatch; I'll grab the lube" and applying it to a different pairing. Deepest apologies to the ghost of Robert A. Heinlein for ...

By Samer Heinlein. Recently, his widow Virginia rediscovered the outline, and asked Canadian SF author Spider Robinson to write the novel. It reads a fair amount like vintage Heinlein, but it clearly was written recently: it mentions 9/11, ...

By Andrew Stuttaford Here, via (sort of) Instapundit, is a useful quote from Robert Heinlein: If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you wil...

I make no effort to hide that Robert Heinlein is one of my favorite authors, and I have read the vast majority of his work. While both share some typical cliches of the Military Science Fiction genre, I do not want to compare them. ...

By Andy McCarthy This morning's WSJ editorial on "Obamanomics" starts with this quote from Barney Frank (and as you read it, note how confident the Left is:  One of the main culprits of the credit crisis, saying this sort of stuff already, just before we vote and before they are even fully in power): I thin...

Volume 3, From Heinlein to Here, covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the Golden Age of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films (2001: A Space Odyssey; ...

By Pete I see this book as similar to Heinlein’s Podkayne of Mars, only Scalzi does a better job of writing a teenage girl than the late grand master ever did. The prose in this novel is witty beyond measure, but it never drowns in its own ...

 - Oct 18, 2008 Bad enough the term has been bastardized from Robert Heinlein’s original usage, but how many of us have ever heard the word used aloud in a sentence? ...

By John Brownlee • Superman and Batman to make a jump to digital stop motion animation with Red Sun and Black and White. • Mental Floss blogs lists five ways Doctor Who made a difference. • Robert Heinlein explains how to write for money. My experience: Leave your pride at the door, bribe your editor.

 - Oct 1, 2008 Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories and early novels, Ben Bova, Ray Bradbury, The Big Three – Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein – those were the ...

By Jenna Wortham Future worlds described by science fiction visionaries like Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and Robert Heinlein often included wildly inventive methods of transportation to other planets, galaxies and dimensions. Left: A bright yellow paint job with black racing stripes gave way to th...

By Django0 I cannot vouch for the authenticity of this, but here is a copy of the form letter as it appears on the conceptual trends and current topics website. Frankly, if true, it's pretty funny. Reminds me of the time I was sitting in the New ...

By Casey Interview: Mur Lafferty (Playing for Keeps). Topics: Stargate Atlantis, The Hobbit, Nightmare Before Christmas, Robert Heinlein. Knight Rider Thank you for listening to our audiocast. This is show number 66 on the feed August 22nd, 2008. I’m going to call Mur Lafferty in just a minute to ta...

By Grimstax The thing I like about the original Starship Troopers wargame is that it was (and may still be) the only game that I would consider to be Strategy VS tactics. The bugs (strategy)have to figure out the best way to ambush the Terran player to maximize casualties because as soon as the bugs are "f...

By Eggo Starship Troopers “Starship Troopers” is a famous novel by the American SF author Robert Heinlein. In it he develops a relatively reactionary view of the future in which only super soldiers who fight the alien bugs from the planet Klendathu are actually allowed to vote. But political view...

By Doug Mataconis Today’s Wall Street Journal has a great piece about Robert A. Heinlein’s political legacy: Heinlein’s political beliefs were moving more and more toward the libertarian side of the spectrum. He supported Barry Goldwater in 1964, and in 1966 he published what many considered his greates...

By Mel Odom I also loved the world of science fiction. But I was torn, as most of us were in those days, between two polarities. Robert A. Heinlein wrote hard-edged science fiction that mostly came true over the next sixty years. Andre Norton wrote a more fanciful type of science fiction that didn’t mire it...

By Bernie Heidkamp(bernie@poppolitics.com) This is science fiction for the 21st century. What's more, it's sci-fi about the 21st century. Fans of the genre have long known that quality sci-fi and its sister genre fantasy hold up a mirror to the times in which they were created, but never before have the TV shows involved seemed so reson...

By James Joyner Jim Henley, responding to a Brian Doherty piece commemorating the 100th anniversary of Robert Heinlein’s birth and the “rough-hewn anti-government but pro-defense message” of his work, observes that, “The problem with the H-G fusion of militarism and limited government is that the...

By Doug Mataconis This past Saturday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Heinlein, one of America’s most prolific science fiction authors and, as Brian Doherty writes in Reason, a very unique libertarian: Heinlein once told a visitor, “I’m so much a libertarian that I have no use for the wh...

By Zonk sasdrtx writes "Today is Robert A. Heinlein's 100th birthday. Regarded as one of the most influential hard Sci-Fi authors of the 20th century, it's definitely worth looking back at his influence on not only science fiction, but the space program, the english language, counter-culture,...

Tomorrow is, as readers of NR will know, thanks to John J. Miller's piece in the current issue, the centenary of the sci-fi writer--and, in his later years, libertarian conservative--Robert A. Heinlein.  ('Taxation is theft, the federal income tax is grand larceny.'  'An armed society is a...

By zirconic@earthlink.net (Dwayne A. Day) This weekend marks the centennial of the birth of Robert Heinlein, a science fiction author whose works have served as an inspiration to many who have pursued careers in the space industry. Dwayne Day examines a memo written by Heinlein over 60 years ago that outlined his belief in the prom...

The just-published issue of NR includes my article on sci-fi writer Robert A. Heinlein, whose centenary arrives on 7-7-07. The story includes a sidebar of recommended sci-fi books for conservatives--a list compiled with the help of NRO readers, who sent in hundreds of suggestions when I...

By Randall A Byrn the poet W.H. Auden, novelists Robert A. Heinlein and Daphne Du Maurier, singers Gene Autry, Kate Smith, and Connee Boswell, bandleader Cab Calloway, film score composer Miklós Rózsa, director Fred Zinnemann, and the actors Dan Duryea, Cesar Romero, Buster Crabbe, Laurence Olivier, Jo...

By Leonard David Take it from sci-fi writer, Robert Heinlein: “Have Space Suit - Will Travel” A newly formed space group, Orbital Outfitters, is taking that axiom to new heights. Rick Tumlinson is founder and chief executive officer of Orbital Outfitters, eyeing the design of new space suits that are coo...

By Andrew There's been a vast increase in the popularity of science fiction: big special effects movies, TV, games," says Andy Sawyer, head of Liverpool's sci-fi department. "But you rarely see it in the best-seller charts, unless it's dropped the name 'science fiction.'"

By Jay Tea In another Heinlein novel, "Job: A Comedy Of Justice," Heinlein elaborated on one guy who was praised for honoring his parents. When he protested that he didn't even like them, he was told that was irrelevant -- he honored and respected them, even though he didn't like them, and that's what...

By Ted Gioia The debates about Starship Troopers were mild compared to the discussions generated by Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, published two years later. Heinlein had begun taking notes for his novel about an earthling raised on Mars back in 1953, and what might have been a modest pot-boi...