“A brilliant mind-bender.Wonderfully humanizing.”-Kurt Vonnegut
“One of the grand masters of science fiction.”- The Wall Street Journal
He shows us where the future is.”-Tom Clancy “We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. “What separates Heinlein’s writing from that of his peers: his ability to show us the inescapable humanity of technologically advanced futures.”. “Offers a lot of food for thought and fodder for argument.indisputably rich with ideas.”-io9 “A significant book in the history of the genre.”-Tor.com By the time he died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. Heinlein’s books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future. His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941.
He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there.
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