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Robert A. Heinlein
[1907-1988]
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“The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.”
“Nothing gives life more zest than running for your life.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri in 1907. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 1934, studied mathematics & physics at the University of California, and then owned a silver mine before beginning his writing career in 1939. His first book, "Rocket Ship Galileo" was published in 1947. He won Hugo Awards for "Double Star" (1956), "Starship Troopers" (1959), "Stranger In A Strange Land" (1961), and "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" (1966). Among his other awards was the Grand Master Nebula Award in 1975.
Robert Heinlein died 8 May 1988 in Carmel, California.
The Heinlein Society
Robert A. Heinlein entry at Wikipedia
search books on keywords 'Robert A. Heinlein' {returns over 700 titles} at Amazon
Robert A. Heinlein credits at Internet Movie Database
"Starship Troopers" [1958]
 | winner of the Hugo Award 1959
Berkley pb [5/87] for $6.99 Putnam hardcover [6/60] out of print/used Blackstone UNABR audio [12/97] for $51.94 Blackstone UNABR audio CD [1/2000] for $89.99 |
 | 1997 movie [TriStar/Touchstone Nov 1997] Directed by Paul Verhoeven; starring Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey & Neil Patrick Harris; Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects Col/TriStar color VHS [4/2001] for $9.95 Col/TriStar widescreen VHS [3/2000] for $14.95 Col/TriStar widescreen DVD [5/2002] for $23.99 Varese soundtrack CD [11/97] for $14.99 official movie website; full credits from IMDb "The Making of Starship Troopers" book Boulevard 11x8.4 pb [12/97] out of print/used |
"Stranger In A Strange Land" [1961]
"[Moses] said, I have been a stranger in a strange land." Exodus 2:22
  | winner of the Hugo Award 1962 - A counter-culture classic! Ace pb [8/95] for $7.99 Putnam hardcover [6/61] out of print/used Blackstone UNABR audio [4/96] for $83.95 |
 | "The Martian Named Smith: Critical Perspectives On Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land" [2001] by William H. Patterson & Andrew Thornton Nitrosyncretic Press 6x9 pb [7/2001] used available at Amazon avbailable from publisher for $18.00 |
Many individuals over the years have tried to get a movie of "Stranger In A Strange Land"
off the ground. Tom Hanks was 'attached' during the 1990s. Producer Scott Rudin holds the movie rights
since late 2006, but there is no listing on IMDb {8/2010}.
http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Uncut-Version/dp/B000H27V80/
http://www.amazon.com/En-terre-%C3%A9trang%C3%A8re-Robert-Heinlein/dp/2221091035/
"The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" [1966] won Hugo Award
Other Fiction By Robert A. Heinlein
"The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" [1942 novella, 1959 collection]
Announced 4/2012: Being written & developed as a feature film by director Alex Proyas; added 9/2012: Red Granite
Pictures will fully fund the film and will also handle foreign sales • latest info at IMDb
"Rocket Ship Galileo" [first book 1947]
"Waldo" & "Magic, Inc." [1950] by Robert A. Heinlein
 | two short stories: "Waldo: Genius In Orbit" about a crippled genius forced to live in a zero-gravity home in orbit around the Earth; and also "Magic, Inc.": Under the guise of an agency for magicians, Magic, Inc. has systematically squeezed out the small independent magicians. But one man stands defiant, and with the help of an Oxford-educated African shaman and a little old lady who is adept at black magic, he is willing to take on the Demons of Hell to resolve the problem - once and for all!
book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Baen Books [3/2014] for $8.99 Pyramid Books mass pb [1966] out of print/scarce Baen Books 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2014] for $14.00 |
"Double Star" [1956] won Hugo Award
"Have Space Suit, Will Travel" [1958]
Serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [Aug-Oct 1958]; published by Scribner's in 1958; nominated
for a Hugo Award; the story of a teenager in 2040 who loses a contest for a free trip to the Moon, but wins a broken-
down space suit - which contains properties that lead to humanity’s first contact with aliens.
book entry at Wikipedia
Announced July 2010: Harry 'Doc' Kloor’s Jupiter 9 Productions is developing a feature version of "Have Space Suit, Will
Travel" with Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein & Peter McHugh attached as producers • latest info at IMDb (2021)
 | "Glory Road" [1963] by Robert A. Heinlein A VietNam vet is pulled into other worlds by a sexy princess for a sword & sorcery quest. Orb Books 8¾x5½ pb [3/2006] for $10.87 Baen mass pb [8/2001] out of print/many used Tor Books 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2004] out of print/used |
"The Number of The Beast" [1980]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)
 | "Friday" novel [1982] 'the triumphant bestseller' by Robert A. Heinlein Friday Jones is a genetically engineered human (known as an Artificial Person or 'AP') on a future Earth who makes her living as a combat courier between Earth cities and several near-Earth colonies . . . • nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus award for Science Fiction Novel, and Prometheus Award for Best Novel • book entry at Wikipedia Del Rey mass pb [7/83] overpriced Holt, Rinehart & Winston 9x6½ hardcover [4/82] for $51.66 |
 | "For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs" [written 1938-39, not published until 2004] Pocket mass pb [11/2004] for $7.99 Scribner 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2004] for $17.50 |
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0722144679/
http://www.amazon.com/Between-Planets-Rolling-Stones-Starman/dp/0739442600/
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Robert-Heinlein-Popular-Writers/dp/0893702161/
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Assignment-Eternity-Stories/dp/B002JJ64S2/
http://www.amazon.com/Fantasies-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0312875576/
http://www.amazon.com/Heinlein-Trio-Puppet-Masters-Double/dp/B0006XK68M/
http://www.amazon.com/Historia-del-Futuro-I-Spanish/dp/8470022911/
http://www.amazon.com/Historia-del-Futuro-Ii-Spanish/dp/8470023179/
http://www.amazon.com/Off-Main-Sequence-Science-Heinlein/dp/1582881847/
http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Collected-Robert-Heinlein-Tributes/dp/0312855230/
http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Tributes-Master-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0812513916/
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Heinlein-Stranger-Milford-Popular/dp/0893702102/
http://www.amazon.com/Six-stories-Pyramid-SF-G-642/dp/B0007FYBXA/
http://www.amazon.com/6xH-Stories-Robert-Heinlein/dp/B000KTVCR6/
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Heinlein-puppet-masters-Waldo/dp/B0007DK2EY/
http://www.amazon.com/Universe-Robert-Heinlein/dp/B001G9BA0I/
http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Robert-Heinlein/dp/B000GRKN2C/
http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Robert-Heinlein-Books-Box/dp/B003IWMY9W/
 | "The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes" [2020]  by Robert A. Heinlein, Introduction by David Weber Written in 1977, first third used as beginning of parallel "The Number of The Beast" in 1980, not pub-lished until 2020; specially-configured space ship Gay Deceiver is able to travel to parallel fictional worlds; since those lands were Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom, L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz, and 'Doc' Smith's Lensman universe, it is assumed that copyright issues prevented publication in 1977, so Heinlein rewrote the last 2/3 from scratch and was able to publish it as "... Beast" Kindle Edition from Caezik SF & Fantasy [3/2020] for $6.99 Caezik SF & Fantasy 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2020] for $22.99 |
Non-Fiction By Robert A. Heinlein
 | "Take Back Your Government!: A Practical Handbook For The Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy To Work" [1992] written in 1946, published posthumously Based on Heinlein's experience in California politics in the 1930s, particularly his efforts on behalf of Upton Sinclair's EPIC Movement and Sinclair's attempt to become the Democratic Party's nominee for California governor in 1934. Baen mass pb [7/92] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/Expanded-Universe-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0743471598/ = essays
http://www.amazon.com/Grumbles-Grave-Robert-Heinlein/dp/1569562512/ = letters
http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Historical-Financial-Collapse-Beyond/dp/0964404001/
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Heinlein-Dialogue-1907-1948-Learning/dp/0765319608/
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Noble-Essential-Decency-Believe/dp/B000WS9Z6U/
Stageplays, Movies & Other Media
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Heinlein-Interview-Other-Heinleiniana/dp/1584450150/
http://www.amazon.com/Project-Moonbase-Others-Robert-Heinlein/dp/1596061863/ = scripts & treatments
http://www.amazon.com/Forrestal-Lecture-US-Naval-Academy/dp/1579704700/
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Heinlein-Radio-Dramas/dp/B000R51R0U/
http://www.amazon.com/George-Pals-Destination-Moon-Record/dp/B002M49CKQ/
http://www.amazon.com/Minus-One-Green-Hills-Dramatized/dp/B000QBYCCK/
http://www.amazon.com/Solution-Unsatisfactory-Dramatized/dp/B00113LRF2/
http://www.amazon.com/Minus-One-Roads-Must-Dramatized/dp/B000QBYCCU/
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Traveled-Elephants-Dramatized/dp/B000VMRMNA/
http://www.amazon.com/Minus-One-Wind-Rising-Dramatized/dp/B000QFBT4K/
"Project Moon Base" feature film [1953]
Works About Robert A. Heinlein
 | "Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion" [2000] by James Gifford Hugo Award nomination 2001 Nitrosyncretic Press pb [5/2000] out of print/used Nitrosyncretic Press hardcover [5/2000] out of print/used publisher bookpage |
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Through-Worlds-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0936071176/
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Heinlein-Joseph-D-Olander/dp/0800868021/
http://www.amazon.com/Heinlein-dimension-critical-Alexei-Panshin/dp/B0007FG9P8/
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Novel-Imagination-Criticism/dp/0911682139/
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Heinlein-America-Science-Fiction/dp/0195027477/
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Heinlein-bibliography-Mark-Owings/dp/0883580004/
http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0893662224/
http://www.amazon.com/HEINLEIN-DIMENSION-Panshin-Alexei-Heinlein/dp/B001DJU1II/
Friends & Family
L i n k s
The Heinlein Society
Robert A. Heinlein entry at Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein credits at Internet Movie Database
search books on keywords 'Robert A. Heinlein' {returns over 700 titles} at Amazon
CA's "We Grok It" fansite
JG's Heinlein fansite
DHR's Heinlein fansite
Bowman's Heinlein fansite in Spanish
Heinlein fansite in Russian (Cyrillic)
LO's Heinlein fansite in Hebrew
Heinlein fansite in Italian
'Libertarianism & Robert A. Heinlein' by Bill Dennis
Heinlein bio & bibliography at SciFi.com
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