Science fiction author robert heinlein biography

Beyond This Horizon describes a future society of material plenty where people spend their time seeking the meaning of life see Genetic Engineering. The astonishingly thorough destruction of Los Angeles see again California unpacked in "The Year of the Jackpot" March Galaxy has a prescient focus on the overuse of dwindling water resources.

These stories, and the later non-series stories, are collected in various volumes: Waldo and Magic, Inc. In the years Heinlein published no fiction, but in he expanded his career — and the potential reach of genre sf as a marketable literature — in two new directions. He began selling short stories to the Slick magazine the Saturday Evening Postbeginning with "The Green Hills of Earth" 8 February Saturday Evening Post and followed by three more in that same year; and he published — with Scribner's, a highly respectable mainstream firm — the first US juvenile sf novel to reflect the new levels of characterization, style and scientific plausibility now expected in the field.

Only the first of his Scribner's titles, Rocket Ship Galileoreflects a pre-War model for boys's stories, with its three mutually reinforcing protagonists, its backyard Invention of a Spaceship powered by an unknown Elementand its climax on the Moonwhere the chums confront and defeat a gaggle of conspiring Nazis. But the tale did remotely form the basis of a film, Destination Moonscripted by Heinlein; background information and other material are contained in Destination Moon coll Unremarkable in itself, it was the first in a series that represents the most important contribution any single writer has made to Children's SF.

Space Cadetthe second in the series, renders Heinlein's own experiences at Annapolis in sf terms; it includes a classic Space Station with the big-wheel construction. With the third, Red Planet: A Colonial Boy on Mars ; text restored see Marswhich recounts the adventures of two young colonists and their Martian "pet", Heinlein came fully into his own as a writer of sf for teenagers.

The last three of these, along with Starman Jones and The Star Beastrank among the very best juvenile sf ever written; their compulsive narrative drive, their shapeliness and their relative freedom from the didactic rancour Heinlein was beginning to show when addressing adults in the later s, all make these books arguably his finest works. The Puppet Masters September-November Galaxy ; ; text restored is an effective if rather hysterical Invasion story featuring alien parasites see Parasitism and Symbiosis who control human minds, and a prime example of Paranoia in s sf; a loose and entirely unauthorized film adaptation is The Brain Eatersand the official film version of the novel — not, alas, notably successful — did not appear until The Puppet Masters His next novel, however, was something else entirely.

A tale of interstellar Future War which helped establish the subgenre of Military SF and whose powered battlesuits inspired Japanese Mechait won a Hugo but also gained Heinlein the reputation of being a militarist, even a "fascist". The plot as usual confers an earned adulthood upon its young protagonist, but in this case by transforming him from an uncertain pacifist into a professional soldier.

This transformation, in itself dubious, is rendered exceedingly unpleasant for those who might demur from its implications by the hectoring didacticism of Heinlein's presentation of his case. Father-figures, always important in his fiction, tended from this point on to utter unstoppable monologues in their author's voice, and dialogue and action become traps in which any opposing versions of reality were hamstrung by the author's aggrieved partiality.

Volunteered for active duty after Pearl Harbor but was turned down; worked as a civil service engineer in the Aeronautical Materials Lab at the Philadelphia Navy Yard —45recruiting Isaac Asimov and others as coworkers. Moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, inafter a divorce; married engineer Virginia Gerstenfeld. Their jointly designed ultramodern house was featured in Popular Mechanics in Reworked earlier magazine serials into such novels as Beyond This Horizon and Sixth Columnand wrote new novels The Puppet MastersDouble StarThe Door into Summerand Starship Troopersinitially rejected as a juvenile because of its violence.

Predictably, the reaction of critics has been one of spluttering indignation, but Starship Troopers does what science fiction does best when it is at its best: it challenges the reader to re-think his basic assumptions. And then Heinlein went back to work on The Heretic. This time he wrote through the huge novel, working title The Man From Mars, and finished it in spring The Man From Mars was science fiction author robert heinlein biography anything Heinlein had let himself do before, an amazingly iconoclastic and complex satire of sex and religion, with clever name games and private jokes embedded in the story.

It might be difficult to market — it might not sell at all. They wanted to publish it — but without the sex and religion. What would have been left, Heinlein pointed out, was not a publishable book. Heinlein edited the manuscript down towords, and it was published in as Stranger In a Strange Land. Insales of the Avon paperback issue of Stranger suddenly took off.

Colorado Springs had become the 1 nuclear target in the U. The structure was circular in plan, giving all the bathrooms direct access to the pool area outside, so that nobody would have to track through the main part of the house. And he added a cat-free guest house to accommodate houseguests such as the de Camps, with cat hair allergies. The first years at the Bonny Doon house were occupied by other matters than writing.

A new series of collections appeared, culminating in the omnibus of the Future History stories, The Past Through Tomorrow, which had been in the works since Robert Heinlein was a guest commentator along with Arthur C. Clarke with Walter Cronkite on this science fiction author robert heinlein biography occasion. By the time it was discovered, seventeen days later Mrs.

Heinlein indicated that Heinlein had an extraordinarily high threshhold of painperitonitis had set in, and he very nearly died. Recuperating from major illnesses was always a full-time job for Heinlein, and this one took the better part of two years. During this period, Heinlein gave a few a few interviews, but it was not until that he was back to strength for writing.

There were few projects. By he felt well enough to write and started Time Enough for Love. Heinlein continued to write during these years, but for one reason or another, he decided not to publish the work. At the end ofexhausted by the ongoing effort of the blood drives, Robert and Ginny took a vacation to the South Pacific. Early inthey were walking on a beach at Moorea, Tahiti, when he had a Transient Ischemic Attack, a brief blockage of blood to his brain that can be a precursor to a cerebral stroke.

A CAT scan ruled out a brain tumor, but the flow of blood to his brain continued to decrease. A heart catheterization for angiogram revealed that his left internal carotid artery was completely blocked, too high for surgery. A carotid bypass operation restored oxygen flow to his brain. As soon as he was able to work, Heinlein started writing The Number of the Beast.

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