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Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.
In the first chapter of the novel Space Cadet he anticipated the cellular phone, 35 years before Motorola invented the technology. Several of Heinlein's works have been adapted for film and television. ==Life== ===Birth, childhood, and early education=== Heinlein, born on July 7, 1907, to Rex Ivar Heinlein (an accountant) and Bam Lyle Heinlein, in Butler, Missouri, was the third of seven children.
The 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet inspired the young child's life-long interest in astronomy. When Heinlein graduated from Central High School in Kansas City in 1924, he aspired to a career as an officer in the United States Navy.
The 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet inspired the young child's life-long interest in astronomy. When Heinlein graduated from Central High School in Kansas City in 1924, he aspired to a career as an officer in the United States Navy.
In part due to the influence of the Pendergast machine, the Naval Academy admitted him in June 1925. ===Navy=== Heinlein's experience in the Navy exerted a strong influence on his character and writing.
In 1929, he graduated from the Naval Academy with the equivalent of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering, ranking fifth in his class academically but with a class standing of 20th of 243 due to disciplinary demerits.
Air Force, and the Missouri National Guard, reaching the rank of major general in the National Guard. ===Marriages=== In 1929, Heinlein married Elinor Curry of Kansas City.
Heinlein was active in Upton Sinclair's socialist End Poverty in California movement (EPIC) in the early 1930s.
This included a detailed description of the protagonist's treatment to avoid being banned to Coventry (a lawless land in the Heinlein mythos where unrepentant law-breakers are exiled). 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.
He advanced to lieutenant, junior grade while serving aboard the new aircraft carrier in 1931.
His second marriage in 1932 to Leslyn MacDonald (1904–1981) lasted for 15 years.
Heinlein also served as gunnery officer aboard the destroyer in 1933 and 1934, reaching the rank of lieutenant.
Heinlein also served as gunnery officer aboard the destroyer in 1933 and 1934, reaching the rank of lieutenant.
Isaac Asimov believed that Heinlein made a swing to the right politically at the same time he married Ginny. ===California=== In 1934, Heinlein was discharged from the Navy due to pulmonary tuberculosis.
He was deputy publisher of the EPIC News, which Heinlein noted "recalled a mayor, kicked out a district attorney, replaced the governor with one of our choice." When Sinclair gained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California in 1934, Heinlein worked actively in the campaign.
In 1934, he worked actively for the Democratic campaign of Upton Sinclair for Governor of California.
Heinlein himself ran for the California State Assembly in 1938, but was unsuccessful. ===Author=== While not destitute after the campaign—he had a small disability pension from the Navy—Heinlein turned to writing to pay off his mortgage.
He made an unsuccessful bid for a California State Assembly seat in 1938.
His first published story, "Life-Line", was printed in the August 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.
Four collections have been published posthumously. ===Series=== Over the course of his career, Heinlein wrote three somewhat overlapping series: Future History series Lazarus Long series The Heinlein juveniles ===Early work, 1939–1958=== Heinlein began his career as a writer of stories for Astounding Science Fiction magazine, which was edited by John Campbell.
Heinlein's first novel, For Us, the Living (written 1939), consists largely of speeches advocating the Social Credit system, and the early story "Misfit" (1939) deals with an organization—"The Cosmic Construction Corps"—that seems to be Franklin D.
His work continues to have an influence on the science-fiction genre, and on modern culture more generally. Heinlein became one of the first American science-fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s.
In California he hosted the Mañana Literary Society, a 1940–41 series of informal gatherings of new authors.
In 1940, the year after selling 'Life-Line' to Campbell, he wrote three short novels, four novelettes, and seven short stories.
Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps translated into outer space. Of this time in his life, Heinlein later said: Heinlein's fiction of the 1940s and 1950s, however, began to espouse conservative views.
He was the guest of honor at Denvention, the 1941 Worldcon, held in Denver.
A chart of the future history was published in the May 1941 issue of Astounding.
While at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyards, Asimov, Heinlein, and de Camp brainstormed unconventional approaches to kamikaze attacks, such as using sound to detect approaching planes. As the war wound down in 1945, Heinlein began to re-evaluate his career.
After 1945, he came to believe that a strong world government was the only way to avoid mutual nuclear annihilation.
Heinlein's posthumously published nonfiction includes a selection of correspondence and notes edited into a somewhat autobiographical examination of his career, published in 1989 under the title Grumbles from the Grave by his wife, Virginia; his book on practical politics written in 1946 published as Take Back Your Government; and a travelogue of their first around-the-world tour in 1954, Tramp Royale.
He published four influential short stories for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, leading off, in February 1947, with "The Green Hills of Earth".
Also, he embarked on a series of juvenile novels for the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company that went from 1947 through 1959, at the rate of one book each autumn, in time for Christmas presents to teenagers.
He also wrote for Boys' Life in 1952. Heinlein had used topical materials throughout his juvenile series beginning in 1947, but in 1958 he interrupted work on The Heretic (the working title of Stranger in a Strange Land) to write and publish a book exploring ideas of civic virtue, initially serialized as Starship Soldiers.
Heinlein's friendship with Virginia turned into a relationship and on October 21, 1948—shortly after the decree nisi came through—they married in the town of Raton, New Mexico, shortly after setting up housekeeping in the Broadmoor district of Colorado Springs in a house that Heinlein and his wife (both engineers) designed.
His 1949 novel Space Cadet describes a future scenario where a military-controlled global government enforces world peace.
In 1950, the movie Destination Moon—the documentary-like film for which he had written the story and scenario, co-written the script, and invented many of the effects—won an Academy Award for special effects.
Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps translated into outer space. Of this time in his life, Heinlein later said: Heinlein's fiction of the 1940s and 1950s, however, began to espouse conservative views.
He also wrote for Boys' Life in 1952. Heinlein had used topical materials throughout his juvenile series beginning in 1947, but in 1958 he interrupted work on The Heretic (the working title of Stranger in a Strange Land) to write and publish a book exploring ideas of civic virtue, initially serialized as Starship Soldiers.
In 1953–1954, the Heinleins voyaged around the world (mostly via ocean liners and cargo liners, as Ginny detested flying), 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, Friday and A Comedy of Justice, the latter initially being set on a cruise much as detailed in Tramp Royale.
Heinlein's posthumously published nonfiction includes a selection of correspondence and notes edited into a somewhat autobiographical examination of his career, published in 1989 under the title Grumbles from the Grave by his wife, Virginia; his book on practical politics written in 1946 published as Take Back Your Government; and a travelogue of their first around-the-world tour in 1954, Tramp Royale.
Heinlein ceased considering himself a Democrat in 1954. The Heinleins formed the Patrick Henry League in 1958, and they worked in the 1964 Barry Goldwater Presidential campaign. That ad was entitled "Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?".
Based on an outline and notes created by Heinlein in 1955, Spider Robinson has written the novel Variable Star.
Off the Main Sequence, published in 2005, includes three short stories never before collected in any Heinlein book (Heinlein called them "stinkeroos"). 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.
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. In 1957, James Blish wrote that one reason for Heinlein's success "has been the high grade of machinery which goes, today as always, into his story-telling.
He also wrote for Boys' Life in 1952. Heinlein had used topical materials throughout his juvenile series beginning in 1947, but in 1958 he interrupted work on The Heretic (the working title of Stranger in a Strange Land) to write and publish a book exploring ideas of civic virtue, initially serialized as Starship Soldiers.
Eisenhower to stop nuclear testing in 1958.
Heinlein ceased considering himself a Democrat in 1954. The Heinleins formed the Patrick Henry League in 1958, and they worked in the 1964 Barry Goldwater Presidential campaign. That ad was entitled "Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?".
Also, he embarked on a series of juvenile novels for the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company that went from 1947 through 1959, at the rate of one book each autumn, in time for Christmas presents to teenagers.
In 1959, his novel (now entitled Starship Troopers) was considered by the editors and owners of Scribner's to be too controversial for one of its prestige lines, and it was rejected.
He thought it was a bad book and asked Ed Neumeier to tell him the story because he could not read it. ===Middle period work, 1961–1973=== 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.
Heinlein ceased considering himself a Democrat in 1954. The Heinleins formed the Patrick Henry League in 1958, and they worked in the 1964 Barry Goldwater Presidential campaign. That ad was entitled "Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?".
In 1965, after various chronic health problems of Virginia's were traced back to altitude sickness, they moved to Santa Cruz, California, which is at sea level.
We accept the risks." Heinlein was among those who in 1968 signed a pro-Vietnam War ad in Galaxy Science Fiction. Heinlein always considered himself a libertarian; in a letter to Judith Merril in 1967 (never sent) he said, "As for libertarian, I've been one all my life, a radical one.
We accept the risks." Heinlein was among those who in 1968 signed a pro-Vietnam War ad in Galaxy Science Fiction. Heinlein always considered himself a libertarian; in a letter to Judith Merril in 1967 (never sent) he said, "As for libertarian, I've been one all my life, a radical one.
He would go on to write a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966). ===Later life and death=== Beginning in 1970, Heinlein had a series of health crises, broken by strenuous periods of activity in his hobby of stonemasonry: in a private correspondence, he referred to that as his "usual and favorite occupation between books".
He does not always operate the machinery to the best advantage, but he always seems to be aware of it." The 1972 collection Myths and Modern Man noted ===1959–1960=== Heinlein decisively ended his juvenile novels with Starship Troopers (1959), a controversial work and his personal riposte to leftists calling for President Dwight D.
He thought it was a bad book and asked Ed Neumeier to tell him the story because he could not read it. ===Middle period work, 1961–1973=== 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.
He also speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices. Heinlein was named the first Science Fiction Writers Grand Master in 1974.
He was the guest of honor at the Worldcon in 1976 for the third time at MidAmeriCon in Kansas City, Missouri.
At that Worldcon, Heinlein hosted a blood drive and donors' reception to thank all those who had helped save lives. Beginning in 1977 and including an episode while vacationing in Tahiti in early 1978, he had episodes of reversible neurologic dysfunction due to transient ischemic attacks.
At that Worldcon, Heinlein hosted a blood drive and donors' reception to thank all those who had helped save lives. Beginning in 1977 and including an episode while vacationing in Tahiti in early 1978, he had episodes of reversible neurologic dysfunction due to transient ischemic attacks.
Heinlein and Virginia had been smokers, and smoking appears often in his fiction, as do fictitious strikable self-lighting cigarettes. In 1980 Robert Heinlein was a member of the Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy, chaired by Jerry Pournelle, which met at the home of SF writer Larry Niven to write space policy papers for the incoming Reagan Administration.
Heinlein's surgical treatment re-energized him, and he wrote five novels from 1980 until he died in his sleep from emphysema and heart failure on May 8, 1988. At that time, he had been putting together the early notes for another World as Myth novel.
The penultimate novel of this period, I Will Fear No Evil, is according to critic James Gifford "almost universally regarded as a literary failure" and he attributes its shortcomings to Heinlein's near-death from peritonitis. ===Later work, 1980–1987=== 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).
Heinlein assisted with Council contribution to the Reagan "Star Wars" speech of Spring 1983. Asked to appear before a Joint Committee of the United States Congress that year, he testified on his belief that spin-offs from space technology were benefiting the infirm and the elderly.
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. The 1984 novel A Comedy of Justice is a sharp satire of organized religion.
The penultimate novel of this period, I Will Fear No Evil, is according to critic James Gifford "almost universally regarded as a literary failure" and he attributes its shortcomings to Heinlein's near-death from peritonitis. ===Later work, 1980–1987=== 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).
Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.
Heinlein's surgical treatment re-energized him, and he wrote five novels from 1980 until he died in his sleep from emphysema and heart failure on May 8, 1988. At that time, he had been putting together the early notes for another World as Myth novel.
Heinlein's posthumously published nonfiction includes a selection of correspondence and notes edited into a somewhat autobiographical examination of his career, published in 1989 under the title Grumbles from the Grave by his wife, Virginia; his book on practical politics written in 1946 published as Take Back Your Government; and a travelogue of their first around-the-world tour in 1954, Tramp Royale.
For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs was published posthumously in 2003; Variable Star, written by Spider Robinson based on an extensive outline by Heinlein, was published in September 2006.
He says that "We find ourselves not only in a world other than our own, but identifying with a living, breathing individual who is operating within its context, and thinking and acting according to its terms." The first novel that Heinlein wrote, 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.
Off the Main Sequence, published in 2005, includes three short stories never before collected in any Heinlein book (Heinlein called them "stinkeroos"). 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.
For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs was published posthumously in 2003; Variable Star, written by Spider Robinson based on an extensive outline by Heinlein, was published in September 2006.
The novel was published as a collaboration, with Heinlein's name above Robinson's on the cover, in 2006. A complete collection of Heinlein's published work has been published by the Heinlein Prize Trust as the "Virginia Edition", after his wife.
Heinlein bibliography for details. On February 1, 2019, Phoenix Pick announced that through a collaboration with the Heinlein Prize Trust, a reconstruction of the full text of an unpublished Heinlein novel had been produced.
It was published in March 2020.
Both The Pursuit of the Pankera and a new edition of The Number of the Beast were published in March 2020.
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