Robert Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (Butler (Missouri), 7 July 1907 – Carmel-by-the-Sea (California), May 8, 1988) was one of the most influential American science fiction writers. Along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur Clarke he belonged to the ' big three ' of science fiction from the 20th century.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Heinlein grew up in Kansas City, Missouri where he underwent the influence of the so-called Bible Belt, the strict believer Protestant southern region of the us. Later, he strongly against the social conventions that prevailed here and was an advocate of religious and sexual freedom. His great love was, in addition to writing and reading science fiction, the marine.
 * themes Heinleins book 2
 * 3 influence of Heinlein
 * 4 Bibliography
 * 4.1 Some books in Dutch
 * 4.2 Early Heinlein books
 * 4.3 books for a youthful audience
 * 4.4 Late Heinlein books
 * 4.5 "Future History" short stories
 * 4.6 short stories
 * 4.7 Books of short stories
 * 4.8 Non-Fiction
 * 5 Main prices
 * 6 external links

Heinlein in 1929 as naval officerHe completed the officer's training at the Military Academy and went into the 20s serve as naval officer on several ships in the Pacific Ocean, among other things, the firstaircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy. Unfortunately developed tuberculosis in his lungs and also turned out to be quite sensitive to seasicknessHeinlein; in 1934 he was forced to leave active service in which he had brought to Lieutenant . He also continued after his mustered a strong supporter of military values as leadership and loyalty.

In 1929 married Heinlein with his first wife and divorced after just a year. He then married a second time and divorced in 1947. In 1948 he married his last wife Virginia "Ginny", with whom he remained married until his death. Her strength of character was often a model for the many heroines in Heinleins stories.

Heinlein and Ginny in 1980After his resignation from the Navy he worked with various short-lived jobs working as with real estate, mining and also he had interest in politics. A few times, Heinlein is eligible for public functions. In 1939 he published his first story that immediately became popular.Heinlein was quickly recognized as a good and innovative SF writer and since then he could of his stories life. After 1970 began to seriously weak with his health and Heinlein several times he spent there but just live off including an acute peritonitis. Also with its lungs and heart he got more and more problems. Between often years-input recovery periods to write many stories, Heinlein still knew but finally died in 1988. Some stories were published posthumously by his widow. [1] ==Themes Heinleins in books[ Edit] == In his books, his nostalgia for and respect for the military life, the strong leaders person and loyalty to ' the good thing ' ever forward.Also the old-American values of the "frontier" and the "Wild West" and the character of the independent "self-made" man who does not need the State distrusts, and even comes in almost all Heinleins stories for. His heroes (and heroines) are usually macho-like figures of the John Wayne type who, despite opposition from devious crooks or inscrutablebureaucracies(Government), save the situation or else heroically battling go under. In 1959 published Heinlein described a militaristic society Starshiptroopers in which in which e.g. only veterans have the right to vote. Some accused Heinlein[2]  following this story (and also because Heinlein in the same time theorem took against the criticism of ' left-wing ' opponents of presidentEisenhower settled on the then held atomic bomb tests) even of fascist sympathies, although that seems a bit exaggerated. At least Heinlein the freedom of the individual and his own responsibility in high esteem and had to have nothing of compulsory social security imposed by the Government and legislation, tax increases and far-reaching Government intervention accompanying with the citizens. The characters in his stories wear these vision settled out. He therefore regarded himself as a "libertarian with a stubborn conservative morality", as he once to his friend and fellow sf writer Alfred Bester said.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Heinlein suggested here is the philosophical idea of pantheistic solipsism, or the world as myth. This idea combines the idea of a truth-in-everything with the idea that the reality coincides with our ideas about this.This means that the whole of in Heinleins optics myths and fictional characters created by an author that is somewhere in the reality of the umbrella is a parallel universe multiverse . This parallel universe can correspond to both other parallel universes like our own reality. In other words: every inner consistent described or fabricated universe in a story, so without contradictions, by definition somewhere in an infinite universe should actually exist. In Heinleins latest stories such as The number of the beast and To sail beyond the sunset, he works this further out and meet each other a lot of Heinlein characters therein even on a kind of ' interdimensional Conference ' of real and fictional heroes. ==Influence of Heinlein<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">His book stranger in a strange land belongs to the most influential and controversial science-fiction books ever written. The book is in essence a Messiah-story. The main character was raised on Mars and when he emigrates to Earth, inspires his quirky lifestyle the people on Earth in such a way that there is a cult around him. The cult exhibits strong similarity with the hippie-cult such as that in the second half of the sixtiesdeveloped in the Western world. It seems that the book was among American youth a underground-acquired status. To what extent the book contributed to the hippie culture in General has been the subject of speculation. The singer Billy Joel mentions the book in his song "we didn't start the fire", which also can be seen as a protest song .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Another book by Heinlein, Starship Troopers is also controversial, to say the least. The book allows individual courage and civic Central and introduces a society where only people who voluntarily participated in a period of social service have the right to vote, against the background of a conflict of humanity based on liberty against aliens that are organised on a Communist way. The film of the same name by Paul Verhoeventurns the book in such a great extent that nothing is left of the original message and the whole thing turns into a ' satire ' on a militaristic America.

<p lang="en" len="522" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Another noteworthy book is Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984) in which Heinlein the fundamentalist Christianity of the American so-called Bible Belt on the heel takes.

<p lang="en" len="378" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In general it can be said that Heinlein's work with socially critical themes.

<p lang="en" len="76" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Heinleins books are for the most part also in the Dutch translation. ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Some books in Dutch<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Early Heinlein books<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Books for a youthful audience<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Late Heinlein books<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==="Future History" short stories<span class="mw-editsection" len="363" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Short stories<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Books of short stories<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Non-Fiction<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Main prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hugo Award
 * Spaceship Galileo /Rocketship Galileo (1947) Born Nova 10, 1978, ISBN 90-283-0565-3
 * Sixth column/Sixth Column (The Day After Tomorrow) (1949) Bruna, black bears 1389, 1970, ISBN 90-229-1389-9
 * The red planet /Red planet, a colonial boy on Mars (1949) Born Nova 3, 1977, ISBN 90-283-0548-3
 * The man who sold the Moon/The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), Servire herring gull 45, 1953
 * The puppets are among us/The Puppet Masters (1951) Bruna, Bruna SF 22, 1973, ISBN 90-229-9022-2
 * Between the planets /Between Planets (1951) Born Nova 1, 1977, ISBN 90-283-0546-7
 * The Star beast /The Star Beast (1954) Born Nova 12, 1978, ISBN 90-283-0571-8
 * Double star /Double star 1956 (Hugo Award 1956) Bruna, black bears 1388, 1970, ISBN 90-229-1388-0, Bruna, SF 75, 1977, ISBN 90-229-9075-3
 * Time for the stars /Time for the Stars (1956) Born Nova 7, 1978, ISBN 90-283-0554-8
 * Wandering among the stars/Citizen of the Galaxy (1957) Meulenhoff, M = SF 59, 1973, ISBN 90-290-0366-9
 * But then the cold in and The Door into Summer (1957) Bruna, SF 64, 1977, ISBN 90-229-9064-8
 * The Unpleasant profession of Jonathan Hoag/The curious Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959), Bruna, black bears 1294, 1969
 * Troops for the stars /Starship Troopers (1959) Meulenhoff, M = SF 304, 1996, ISBN 90-290-5320-8
 * Stranger in a strange land /Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) Bruna, SF 21, 1973, ISBN 90-229-9021-4
 * Got lost between stars/Orphans of the Sky (1963) Meulenhoff, M = SF 1, 1967
 * The path of Fame /Glory Road (1963) Meulenhoff, M = SF 35, 1970, ISBN 90-290-3914-0
 * The Moon in revolt /The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) (Hugo Award 1967) Meulenhoff, M = SF 47, 1971, ISBN 90-290-0263-8
 * The number of the beast/The Number of the Beast (1980) Elmar, SF 20, 1981, ISBN 90-6120-250-7
 * Friday/Friday (1982) Elmar, SF 26, 1983, ISBN 90-6120-357-0
 * For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939)
 * Methuselah's Children (1941)
 * Beyond This Horizon (1942)
 * Sixth Column aka The Day After Tomorrow (1949)
 * The Puppet Masters (1951, made into a film under the same title)
 * Double Star (1956) (Hugo Award, 1956)
 * The Door into Summer (1957)
 * Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) (Hugo Award, 1962)
 * Glory Road (1963)
 * Farnham's Freehold (1965)
 * Rocket Ship Galileo (1947)
 * Space Cadet (1948)
 * Red Planet (1949)
 * Farmer in the Sky (1950) (Retro Hugo Award, 1951)
 * Between Planets (1951)
 * The Rolling Stones (1952)
 * Starman Jones (1953)
 * The Star Beast (1954)
 * Tunnel in the Sky (1955)
 * Time for the Stars (1956)
 * Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
 * Have Space Suit — Will Travel (1958)
 * Starship Troopers (1959) (Hugo Award, 1960)
 * Podkayne of Mars (1963)
 * I Will Fear No Evil (1970)
 * Time Enough For Love (1973)
 * The Number of the Beast (1980)
 * Friday (1982)
 * Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
 * The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
 * To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
 * Life-Line (1939)
 * Misfit (1939)
 * The Roads Must Roll (1940)
 * Requiem (1940)
 * If This Goes On... (1940)
 * Coventry (1940)
 * Blowups Happen (1940, of this is also a later version with references to Nagasaki and Hiroshima)
 * Universe (1941)
 * Methuselah's Children (1941)
 * Logic of Empire (1941)
 * Space Jockey (1947)
 * It's Great to Be Back! (1947)
 * The Green Hills of Earth (1947)
 * Ordeal in Space (1948)
 * The Long Watch (1948) (en:the long wait )
 * Gentlemen, Be Seated (1948)
 * The Black Pits of Luna (1948)
 * Delilah and the Space Rigger (1949)
 * The Man Who Sold the Moon (Retro Hugo Award, 1951)
 * Waldo (1940)
 * They (1941)
 * "— And He Built a Crooked House —" (1941)
 * By His Bootstraps (1941) (en: the time port)
 * We Also Walk Dogs (1941)
 * Lost Legacy (1941)
 * Elsewhen (1941)
 * The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942)
 * Magic, Inc. (1942)
 * Jerry Was a Man (1947)
 * Our Fair City (1948)
 * Gulf (1949)
 * The Menace From Earth (1957)
 * The Man Who Traveled in Elephants (1957)
 * "— All You Zombies —" (1959)
 * Searchlight (1962)
 * The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
 * Waldo & Magic, Inc. (1950)
 * The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
 * Assignment in Eternity (1953)
 * Revolt in 2100 (1953)
 * The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1958)
 * The Menace from Earth (1959)
 * The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959)
 * Orphans of the Sky (1963)
 * Three by Heinlein (1965)
 * A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966)
 * The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
 * The Best of Robert a. Heinlein (1973)
 * Expanded Universe (1980)
 * A Heinlein Trio (1980)
 * The Fantasies of Robert a. Heinlein (1999)
 * Grumbles from the Grave (1989)
 * Take Back Your Government: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen (1992)
 * Tramp Royale (1992)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nebula Grand Master Award (1975)
 * Double Star (1956)-novel
 * Starship Troopers (1960)-novel
 * Stranger in a Strange Land (1962)-novel
 * The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1967)-novel
 * Farmer in the Sky (2001)-novel (Retro Hugo)
 * The Man Who Sold the Moon (2001)-novella (Retro Hugo)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Locus Award


 * Job: A Comedy of Justice (1985)-fantasy novel
 * Grumbles from the Grave (1990)-nonfiction