The science fiction writer Robert Heinlein's 100th birthday is July 7. Despite his visions of near-immortals and cryogenic sleep, he didn't live to see it. He died in 1988, mourned by millions of ...

I found Starship Troopers in my high school library, along with everything that Robert Heinlein had written up to that point — this would have been around 1962 or 1963. I was a freshman, and ...

Robert Heinlein, no stranger to pulp fiction and sci-fi mastery. By Michael Dirda. August 11, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. EDT ...

But Robert A. Heinlein, the California-based science-fiction writer who stood over the midcentury decades like a colossus, casts a different kind of shadow now, on the 100th anniversary of his ...

Robert Heinlein’s classic 1966 novel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, explores the idea of a lunar colony declaring independence from Earth. Science fiction author Anthony Ha found the book a fun ...

The second massive volume in William Patterson’s fannish biography of classic science fiction author Robert Heinlein has just come out, and it explores — in part — the writer’s strange ...

Very early in his writing career, about 1940, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein outlined a “future history” around which much of his writing would revolve, extending from the mid-20th ...

Time makes fools of us all. As the years go by, Paul Verhoeven’s borderline campy adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s beloved 1959 book ages like a fine wine. When it was first released in 1997 ...

Robert Heinlein. Add Topic. Politics don't belong in science fiction: Column. Glenn Harlan Reynolds. There was a time when science fiction was a place to explore new ideas, free of the ...

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Robert “Bob” Heinlein, 84, of Marietta, passed away at 5:20 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 6, 2024, at Arcadia Valley Nursing Home in Coolville. Graveside services, 11:30 a ...