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Subject: Re: Heinlein Questions
From: hester@ICSE.UCI.EDU (Jim Hester)
Date: 15 Sep 87 16:57:09 GMT
For what it's worth, here's the appropriate lines of my database. (It's
missing some of the new ones, which I haven't gotten around to entering).
Key: Au = Author
Na = full (real) Name
Bo = Born
Ps = Pseudonym
Ti = Title
Ty = Type (S=short story, N=novel, C=collection, A=anthology, N3=trilogy)
Me = Medium (P=paperback, H=hardback)
Ke = reference Key of this volume
(usually applies to collection, anthology, or trilogy)
format: -
Re = Reference key (what volume contains this work)
If author prefix is omitted, it defaults to author of this work
(HEI in this case)
Gr = Grade (A=excellent, B=good, C=average-worth reading once,
D=not worth reading once [except possibly for historical
reasons], F=terrible: burn before reading)
Co = Comment: often contains alternate titles
Robert Anson Heinlein Born: 1907 Parents: Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe~
Titles:
"All You Zombies"~Ty S~Re U~Re MI-F~Re SI-M~
"-And He Built a Crooked House-"~Ty S~Re U~Re AS-W~Re CL-TI~
Assignment in Eternity~Ty C~Me P~Ke HEI-A~
Between Planets~Ty N~Gr B~Me H~
Black Pits of Luna, The~Ty S~Re G~Re P~
Blowups Happen~Ty S~Gr B~Re P~Re WO~Re C-AS~Re CO-GO~
By His Bootstraps~Ty S~Re ME~
Citizen of the Galaxy~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Colombus was a Dope~Ty S~Re ME~Re POH-S2~
Coventry~Ty S~Re P~
Day After Tomorrow, The~Ty N~Me P~Co also called: The Sixth Column~
Delilah and the Space-Rigger~Ty S~Re G~Re P~
Destination Moon~Ty SN~Re M-T~
Door into Summer, The~Ty N~Re H~Gr B~
Double Star~Ty N~Re H~Gr B~
Elsewhen~Ty S~Re A~
Farmer in the Sky~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Farnham's Freehold~Ty N~Me P~Gr C~
Free Men~Ty S~Re WO~
Gentlemen, Be Seated~Ty S~Re G~Re P~
Glory Road~Ty N~Gr B~Me H~
Goldfish Bowl~Ty S~Gr D~Re ME~Re CO-GO~Re K-F~
Green Hills of Earth, The~Ty C~Me P~Ke HEI-G~
Green Hills of Earth, The~Ty S~Re G~Re P~Re POS-P~
Gulf~Ty S~Re A~
Have Space Suit-Will Travel~Ty N~Me P~Gr C~
Heinlein Trio, A~Ty C~Ke HEI-H~Me H~
"If This Goes On-"~Ty S~Re P~
"It's Great to be Back"~Ty S~Gr D~Re G~Re P~Re CO-T~
Jerry was a Man~Ty S~Re A~
JOB: A Comedy of Justice~Ty N~Me H~Gr B~
Life-Line~Ty S~Re P~Re WO~
Logic of Empire~Ty S~Re G~Re P~
Long Watch, The~Ty S~Re G~Re P~
Lost Legacy~Ty SN~Re A~Gr C~
Magic, Inc.~Ty N~Me P~Re W~Gr C~
Man who Sold the Moon, The~Ty S~Re P~Re BO-T1~Re K-D~
Man who Traveled in Elephants, The~Ty S~Re U~
Menace from Earth, The~Ty C~Me P~Ke HEI-ME~
Menace from Earth, The~Ty S~Re ME-P~
Methuselah's Children~Ty N~Me P~Re IBID~Re P~Gr B~
Misfit~Ty S~Gr B~Re P~Re CO-M~
Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Ordeal in Space~Ty S~Re G~Re P~
Orphans of the Sky~Ty N~Gr D~Ke HEI-O~Me H~
Our Fair City~Ty S~Re U~
Pandora's Box~Ty E~Re W~Co also called: Where To?~
Past Through Tomorrow, The~Ty C~Ke HEI-P~Me H~
Podkayne of Mars~Ty N~Me P~Gr C~
Project Nightmare~Ty S~Re ME~
Puppet Masters, The~Ty N~Re H~Gr C~
Red Planet~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Requiem~Ty S~Re P~Re HE-A~
Roads Must Roll, The~Ty S~Re P~Re HE-M~Re SI-S1~
Rocket Ship Galileo~Ty N~Me P~Gr C~
Rolling Stones, The~Ty N~Me P~Gr C~
Searchlight~Ty S~Re P~Re WO~
Sixth Column~Ty N~Co also called: The Day After Tomorrow~Me H~
Sky Lift~Ty S~Re ME~Re K-C~
Solution Unsatisfactory~Ty S~Gr D~Re WO~Re CU-F~Re CO-GO~
Space Cadet~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Space Jocky~Ty S~Re G~Re P~
Star Beast, The~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Starman Jones~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Starship Troopers~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Stranger in a Strange Land~Ty N~Me P~Gr A~
They~Ty S~Re U~
Time Enough for Love~Ty N~Me P~Gr A~
Time for the Stars~Ty N~Me P~Gr B~
Tomorrow, The Stars~Ty A~Me P~Ke HEI-T~
Universe~Ty S~Gr B~Re O~Re BOV-S2A~Re CO-GO~
Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, The~Ty C~Me P~Ke HEI-U~
Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, The~Ty S~Re U~
Waldo~Ty N~Me P~Re W~Re BO-T1~Gr B~
Waldo and Magic, Inc.~Ty N2~Me P~Ke HEI-W~
Water is for Washing~Ty S~Re ME~
"-We Also Walk Dogs"~Ty S~Re G~Re P~
Where To?~Ty E~Co also called: Pandora's Box~
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, The~Ty C~Me P~Ke HEI-WO~
Year of the Jackpot, The~Ty S~Re ME~
Here's the non-heinlein references (anthologies referenced by the above):
Isaac Asimov~Ke AS-W~Ti Where do We Go from Here?~Ty A~Me H~
Anthony Boucher~Ti Treasury of Great Science Fiction, A vol 1~Ty A~Ke BO-T1~Me H~
Ben Bova~Ti Science Fiction Hall of Fame, The vol 2A~Ty A~Ke BOV-S2A~Me H~
John W. Campbell Jr.~Ti Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, The~Ty A~Ke C-AS~Me H~
Arthur C. Clarke~Ti Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction~Ty A~Me P~Ke CL-TI~
Groff Conklin~Ti Golden Age of Science Fiction, The~Ty A~Co also called: The Best of Science Fiction~Ke CO-GO~Me H~
Groff Conklin~Ti Minds Unleashed~Ty A~Me P~Co also called: Giants Unleashed~Ke CO-M~
Groff Conklin~Ti Treasury of Science Fiction~Ty A~Ke CO-T~Me H~
Richard Curtis~Ti Future Tense~Ty A~Me P~Ke CU-F~
Raymond J. Healy~Ti Adventures in Time and Space [selected stories from]~Au J. Francis McComas~Ty A~Me P~Ke HE-A~
Raymond J. Healy~Ti More Adventures in Time and Space~Au J. Francis McComas~Ty A~Me P~Ke HE-M~
Damon Knight~Ti Century of Science Fiction, A~Ty A~Ke K-C~Me H~
Damon Knight~Ti Dimension X~Ty A~Ke K-D~Me H~
Damon Knight~Ti First Contact~Ty A~Me P~Ke K-F~
Leo Margulies~Ti Three Times Infinity~Ty A~Me P~Ke M-T~
Robert P. Mills~Ti Flowers for Algernon and Other Stories~Ty A~Me P~Co alsp called: The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 9th Series~Ke MI-F~
Carol Pohl~Ti Science Fiction, The Great Years vol II~Au Frederik Pohl~Ty A~Me P~Ke POH-S2~
The Saturday Evening Post~Ti Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction~Ty A~Me P~Ke POS-P~
Robert Silverberg~Ti Mirror of Infinity, The~Ty A~Me P~Ke SI-M~
Robert Silverberg~Ti Science Fiction Hall of Fame, The vol 1~Ty A~Ke SI-S1~Me H~
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From archive (archive)
Subject: Author Lists: Robert Heinlein
From: JWenn
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Date: 16 Dec 88 06:43:56 PST (Friday)
Well, what can be said about Robert Heinlein that hasn't been said before
on this forum? What ever your opinion of his work (especially his
controversial last five novels), he has had a strong impact on the face of
modern SF.
[A] == Anthology. (A bunch of stories written by other people)
[C] == Short Story Collection.
[J] == The book is for juveniles (however you define them)
[O] == Omnibus. Includes other books.
aka == Also known by this other title.
contains == Completely contains the other title.
/John
arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com
thereaintnosuchthingasafreelunch-ly
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Heinlein, Robert A[nson] [U.S.A., 7/7/1907-5/8/1988]
[Hugo 1956, 1960, 1962, 1967 & Nebula Grand Master 1974]
The Juveniles: [J]
Rocket Ship Galileo [1947]
Space Cadet [1948]
Red Planet [1949]
Farmer in the Sky [1950]
Between Planets [1951]
The Rolling Stones [1952] [aka "Space Family Stone"]
Starman Jones [1953]
The Star Beast [1954]
Tunnel in the Sky [1955]
Time for the Stars [1956]
Citizen of the Galaxy [1957]
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel [1958]
Podkayne of Mars [1963]
The Future History Series: [future history]
The Past Through Tomorrow [1967] [C] [O] [omits "Let There Be
Light", adds "Searchlight" & "The Menace from Earth"]
The Robert Heinlein Omnibus [1958] [O]
The Man Who Sold The Moon [1950] [C]
The Green Hills of Earth [1951] [C]
Revolt in 2100 [1953] [C]
Methuselah's Children [1958]
Universe [1951] [novella]
Orphans of the Sky [1964] [rev. of "Universe"] [C]
Time Enough for Love [1973]
A Robert Heinlein Omnibus [1966]
Beyond this Horizon [1948]
The Robert Heinlein Omnibus [1958] [O] [see above]
Three by Heinlein [1965] [aka "A Heinlein Triad"] [O]
Waldo & Magic, Inc. [1950] [2 novellas] [aka "Waldo: Genius In
Orbit"]
The Puppet Masters [1951]
The Best of Robert Heinlein 1939 - 1959 [1973] [C] [split into:]
The Best of Robert Heinlein 1939 - 1942 [1973] [C]
The Best of Robert Heinlein 1947 - 1959 [1973] [C]
A Heinlein Trio [1980] [O] [contains "The Puppet Masters"]
Double Star [1956]
The Door Into Summer [1957]
The Day After Tomorrow [1949] [aka "Sixth Column"]
Tomorrow the Stars [1952] [A]
Assignment in Eternity [1953] [C] [contains "Lost Legacy"]
Starship Troopers [1959]
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag [1959] [aka "6 x H"] [C]
The Menace from Earth [1959] [C]
Lost Legacy [1960] [C]
Stranger in a Strange Land [1961]
Glory Road [1963]
Farnham's Freehold [1964]
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [1966]
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein [1966] [C]
I Will Fear No Evil [1970]
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long [1978]
Destination Moon [1979]
Expanded Universe [1980] [C] [contains "The Worlds of Robert A.
Heinlein"]
The Number of the Beast [1980]
Friday [1982]
Job: A Comedy of Justice [1984]
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners [1985]
To Sail Beyond Sunset [1987]
Grumbles From The Grave [planned 1990] [letters]
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From archive (archive)
Subject: Heinlein chronology -- the list (long)
Keywords: Heinlein Stover Chronology
From: deh0654@sjfc.UUCP (Dennis E. Hamilton)
Organization: St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
Date: 18 Feb 89 21:42:11 GMT
There was a recent request for the Heinlein "author list." Having not
seen one, here's an alternative from my series of Heinlein materials
previously posted to the CompuServe sci-fi forum. (They have not been
posted here because, heretofore, there were problems posting to rec.*
groups from this site. I am trying this because the problem is reportedly
healed.)
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RAH8811A.BIB 1.01 dh:89-02-18
Heinlein Chronology
This continuation of my collection of annotated bibliographic
materials is devoted to reconstructing the chronology of
publication of Robert A. Heinlein's work. The chronology given
by Leon E. Stover in his biography is taken as a point of
departure, with cross-references to Stover's citations of the
individual works with regard to various themes taken up in the
biography.
This is by no means a comprehensive chronology, and I have not
verified all of the citations. I expect that there are errors
concerning some of the changes of titles, and also concerning the
original publications. I also regret that it is now difficult to
determine where the serializations of the juveniles appeared. It
is my intention to update this chronology as better information
becomes available.
-- Dennis E. Hamilton
February 8, 1989
%A Leon E. Stover
%T Heinlein Bibliography
%B Robert A. Heinlein
%I G. K. Hall & Company, Twayne Publishers
%C Boston, MA
%D 1987
%Z ISBN 0-8057-7509-9 alk. paper
%O Compiled from references throughout the work.
%K Heinlein Stover Chronology Publications Bibliography
%X I am using the Stover treatment as the basis for a chronology
on Heinlein's work. The basic sequences are from the front
matter and the appendix material. The discussions of various
works and themes result from a page-by-page analysis of the
complete bibliography. As in the similar commentary on
biographical matters, references in the form [LS:...] are to the
Stover biography, [EU:...] is to Heinlein's own commentaries in
"Expanded Universse." I have also added additional citations
from other sources and corrected a few of the misprinted listings
in [LS]. I have maintained the chronology of first publication,
to the extent known, so that there is a firm perspective on how
the author's work developed and overlapped. Of course, a more
reliable treatment would review when the works were written, not
published, even though most of Heinlein's short works appear to
have sold quickly. By Heinlein's own admission, the
chronological work was not without influence from contemporary
affairs and personal experiences (such as his ideas about world
government and the experience of visiting the Soviet Union). It
is therefore useful to match the chronology with events in the
lives of the Heinleins and of America.
Robert A. Heinlein. Life-Line. Astounding Science Fiction.
August, 1939. Collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), The
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966), The Past through Tomorrow
(1967), Expanded Universe (1980). circumstances for writing,
rejection by Colliers [LS:21-22]; heroic capitalism [LS:30];
contrast of Pinero and Shipstone [LS:68]; tale of election of
grace [LS:100-101]; fact over theory [LS:102-103]; destiny
[LS:104].
Robert A. Heinlein. Misfit. Astounding Science Fiction.
November, 1939. Collected in Revolt in 2100 (1953), The Past
through Tomorrow (1967). personal destiny [LS:104-105]; one-and-
the-many [LS:110-111].
Robert A. Heinlein. Requiem. Astounding Science Fiction.
January, 1940. Collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950),
The Past through Tomorrow (1967). value of honest labor [LS:16];
space ship "Lunatic," The Man Who Sold the Moon [LS:25]; personal
destiny [LS:105-106].
Robert A. Heinlein. If This Goes On--. Astounding Science
Fiction. March, 1940. Collected in Revolt in 2100 (1953); The
Past through Tomorrow (1967). testament against revolutionary
elites [LS:68]; women and combat [LS:70-71].
Lyle Monroe. Let There Be Light. Super Science Stories.
May, 1940. Collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950).
belongs in Future History [LS:36]; opposition to protected
monopolies [LS:44]; learning experience in human relations
[LS:65].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Roads Must Roll. Astounding Science
Fiction. June, 1940. Collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon
(1950). relationship to 1981 air-trafffic controllers' strike
[LS:7].
Robert A. Heinlein. Coventry. Astounding Science Fiction.
July, 1940. Collected in Revolt in 2100 (1953); The Past through
Tomorrow (1967). viewpoint [LS:114-121]; impossibility of social
control [LS:120].
Robert A. Heinlein. Blowups Happen. Astounding Science
Fiction. September, 1940. Collected in The Man Who Sold the
Moon (1950); The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966); The Past
through Tomorrow (1967), Expanded Universe (1980). relation to
1986 Chernobyl disaster [LS:7]; individuals over insurmountable
obstacles [LS:27]; reference to D.D. Harriman [LS:41].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Devil Makes the Law. Unknown Worlds.
September, 1940. Collected as "Magic, Inc." in Waldo and Magic,
Inc. (1950). Heinlein's first fantasy story [LS:34-35].
Anson MacDonald. Sixth Column. Astounding Science Fiction.
January-March, 1941. Published as The Day after Tomorrow (1949).
Signet Books edition, 1949. Later reprints restore the original
title.
Robert A. Heinlein. --And He Built a Crooked House--.
Astounding Science Fiction. February, 1941. Collected in 6 x H
(1959). relationship to Claude Bragdon's 1913 Primer of Higher
Space [LS:4] part of Future History anthologized elsewhere
[LS:36].
Robert A. Heinlein. Logic of Empire. Astounding Science
Fiction. March, 1941. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951); The Past through Tomorrow (1967). Frederick Douglass on
freedom [LS:62]; one-and-the-many [LS:110-111].
Robert A. Heinlein. They. Unknown Worlds. April, 1941.
Collected in 6 x H (1959). not solipsistic [LS:106-108];
Glaroon of "Job" [LS:106]; collective immortality [LS:108-109];
volition [LS:109-110].
Robert A. Heinlein. Universe. Astounding Science Fiction.
May, 1941. 10 cent Dell Book (New York: 1951). Collected in
Orphans of the Sky (1964). failure of first starship "Vanguard"
[LS:25]; part of Future History but not collected with it
[LS:36]; fact versus theory [LS:104].
Anson MacDonald. Solution Unsatisfactory. Astounding Science
Fiction. May, 1941. Collected in The Worlds of Robert A.
Heinlein (1966), Expanded Universe (1980).
John W. Campbell. History to Come (editorial). plan of the
Future History Series. Astounding Science Fiction. May, 1941.
pp. 5, 123-125. The now-famous table is updated and reprinted in
many of the collections, and is found on pp.660-661 of the
Berkley Medallion edition of "The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)."
type-casting and need for pseudonyms [LS:35-36]; origin of
"Future History" [LS:63].
Anson MacDonald. We Also Walk Dogs. Astounding Science
Fiction. July, 1941. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951), The Past Through Tomorrow (1967).
Robert A. Heinlein. Methuselah's Children. Astounding
Science Fiction. July-September, 1941. (3-part serialization).
1958. Signet Books edition, 1960. Collected in The Past through
Tomorrow (1967). connection with Universe, success of second
starship, "New Frontiers" [LS:25]; Howard Families as metaphor
for American pluralism [LS:62]; selflessness as laziness
[LS:93-94].
Caleb Saunders. Elsewhere. Astounding Science Fiction.
September, 1941. Collected as "Elsewhen" in Assignment in
Eternity (1953). only use of this pseudonym, metaphorical fantasy
[LS:37]; method of transport [LS:39].
Robert A. Heinlein. Common Sense. Astounding Science
Fiction. October, 1941. Collected in Orphans of the Sky (1964).
part of Future History, but not collected with it [LS:36].
Anson MacDonald. By His Bootstraps. Astounding Science
Fiction. October, 1941. Collected in The Menace from Earth
(1959). only story dealing with individual damnation
[LS:98-100]; free will and predestination [LS:126].
Lyle Monroe. Lost Legion. Super Science Stories. November,
1941. Collected as "Lost Legacy" in Assignment in Eternity
(1953). playful treatment of ghost-horror subgenre [LS:34-35].
John W. Campbell. editorial announcement. Astounding Science
Fiction. February, 1942. p.35. Reports return of both Robert A.
Heinlein and Anson MacDonald to navy service [LS:36].
Lyle Monroe. My Object All Sublime. Future. February, 1942.
Anson MacDonald. Goldfish Bowl. Astounding Science Fiction.
March, 1942. Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).
aliens/gods [LS:109].
Anson MacDonald. Beyond This Horizon. Astounding Science
Fiction. April-May, 1942. 1948. Signet Books edition, 1960.
failed genetic utopia, man as a wild animal incapable of
domestication for any purpose whatever [LS:33].
Anson MacDonald. Waldo. Astounding Science Fiction. August,
1942. Collected in Waldo and Magic, Inc. (1950). last story
written before returning to service in December, 1941 [LS:36];
magical power source [LS:39].
John Riverside. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.
Unknown Worlds. October, 1942. Collected in 6 x H (1959).
comments on choice of name, pure fantasy [LS:38]; realistic
companionate marriage [LS:64-65]; comparison to Bonner-Sakharov
struggle [LS:65].
Robert A. Heinlein. Testing in Connection with the
Development of Strong Plastics for Aircraft. Naval Air Materials
Center (Philadelphia: 1944). invention of space suit with L.
Sprague de Camp [LS:22]; virtues of clear technical writing
[LS:23].
Robert A. Heinlein. Dance session. unpublished poem (June,
1946). Collected in New Destinies 6 (Winter, 1988).
Robert A. Heinlein. The witch's daughters. unpublished poem
(August, 1946). Collected in New Destinies 6 (Winter, 1988).
Robert A. Heinlein. The Green Hills of Earth. Saturday
Evening Post. 1947. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951); The Past through Tomorrow (1967). Stover lyrics for "Up
Ship!" [LS:preface]; Mars [LS:55]; ethical meaning of new
frontiers [LS:94-95]; ownership of good works [LS:119].
Robert A. Heinlein. Space Jockey. Saturday Evening Post.
April 26, 1947. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951),
The Past through Tomorrow (1967).
Lyle Monroe. Pied Piper. Astonishing Stories. May, 1947.
Lyle Monroe. Columbus Was a Dope. Startling Stories. May,
1947. Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959). belongs in
Future History [LS:36].
Robert A. Heinlein. It's Great to Be Back! Saturday Evening
Post. July 26, 1947. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951), The Past through Tomorrow (1967). pioneering spirit
[LS:32-33].
Robert A. Heinlein. Jerry Is a Man. Thrilling Wonder
Stories. October, 1947. Collected as "Jerry Was a Man" in
Assignment in Eternity (1953).
Robert A. Heinlein. Water is for Washing. Argosy.
November, 1947. Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).
Robert A. Heinlein. On the Writing of Speculative Fiction.
pp. 11-19 in Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction
Writing. Lloyd Arthur Eshback, ed. Advent (Chicago: 1947).
pulling fantasy and science fiction together as speculative
fiction [LS:35].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Black Pits of Luna. Saturday Evening
Post. January 10, 1948. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951), The Past through Tomorrow (1967). pioneering types and
spirit [LS:30-31].
Robert A. Heinlein. Ordeal in Space. Town & Country. May,
1948. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951), The Past
through Tomorrow (1967).
Robert A. Heinlein. Gentlemen, Be Seated! Argosy. May,
1948. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951), The Past
through Tomorrow (1967).
Robert A. Heinlein. Our Fair City. Weird Tales. January,
1949. Collected in 6 x H (1959).
Robert A. Heinlein. Rocket Ship Galileo. Scribner's (New
York: 1947).
Robert A. Heinlein. Space Cadet. Scribner's (New York:
1948). Heinlein's affection for the academy life [LS:18];
connection to The Long Watch [LS:41].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Long Watch. American Legion
Magazine. December, 1949. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951), The Past through Tomorrow (1967), New Destinies 6
(Winter, 1988). connection to Space Cadet [LS:41].
Robert A. Heinlein. Delilah and the Space Rigger. Blue Book.
December, 1949. Collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951),
The Past through Tomorrow (1967).
Robert A. Heinlein. Gulf. Astounding Science Fiction.
December, 1949. Collected in Assignment in Eternity (1953).
connection to "Friday" [LS:p.67]; superman stories [LS:67-68].
Robert A. Heinlein. Red Planet. Scribner's (New York: 1949).
Lowell's Mars here, in Stranger in a Strange Land, and the Green
Hills of Earth [LS:55].
Robert A. Heinlein. Destination Moon. Short Story Magazine.
September, 1950. Collected in Three Times Infinity, Leon
Margulies, editor. Gold Medal Books, 1958. costs of
exploration, Challenger disaster [LS:44-45].
Robert A. Heinlein. Destination Moon (screenplay). An
Eagle-Lion release produced by George Pal, directed by Irving
Pichel, featuring John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, and
Dick Wesson (with cameo appearance by Woody Woodpecker). 91
minutes, color. [LS:134 chapter 5 note 3].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Man Who Sold the Moon. Original
story included in the collection of the same name, 1950.
Collected in The Past through Tomorrow (1967). drawing on
pioneering forbearers [LS:8]; relationship of D. D. Harriman to
Edward Henry Harriman, Carlyle [LS:9]; cats [LS:14]; Harriman's
wonderful dream [LS:16]; spaceship "Santa Maria" [LS:25];
significance of renaming from "Care Free", divine ordination of
human diaspora into space, space and peace [LS:27-28];
responsibility of wealth [LS:87-88]; one-and-the-many
[LS:110-113].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Man Who Sold the Moon. 1950. Signet
Books edition, 1973. Collection of Blowups Happen (1940), Let
There Be Light (1940), Life-Line (1939), The Man Who Sold the
Moon (1950), Requiem (1940), and The Roads Must Roll (1940).
Robert A. Heinlein. Farmer in the Sky. Scribner's (New York:
1950). hard work and unconquerable courages [LS:44].
Robert A. Heinlein. Waldo and Magic, Inc. (Waldo: Genius in
Orbit). Doubleday (New York: 1950). Avon Books edition, 1950.
Del Rey Ballantine Books edition, 1986. Collects The Devil Makes
the Law (1940) and Waldo (1942).
Robert A. Heinlein. Between Planets. Scribner's (New York:
1951).
Robert A. Heinlein. The Puppet Masters. Galaxy Science
Fiction. September - November, 1951. 1951. Signet Books
edition, 1951.
Robert A. Heinlein. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Television
series. 1951 to 1954. Videotapes available in catalog of
Nostalgia Merchant, A Division of Media Home Entertainment, Inc.
(Culver City, CA) [LS:134 chapter 5 note 4]. This series was
Heinlein's concoction, according to Raymond J. Healy and J.
Francis McComas in "Famous Science Fiction Stories: Adventures in
Time and Space" [Modern Library (New York: 1946, 1957)]. based
on "Space Cadet (1948)" [LS:45].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Green Hills of Earth. 1951. Signet
Books edition, 1951. Collection of The Green Hills of Earth
(1947), The Black Pits of Luna (1948), Delilah and the Space-
Rigger (1949), Gentlemen, Be Seated! (1948), It's Great to Be
Back! (1947), Logic of Empire (1941), The Long Watch (1949),
Ordeal in Space (1948), Space Jockey (1947), We Also Walk Dogs
(1941).
Robert A. Heinlein. The Year of the Jackpot. Galaxy Science
Fiction. March, 1952. Collected in The Menace from Earth
(1959). atypical outcome [LS:98].
Robert A. Heinlein. Where To? Life in 2000 A.D. Galaxy
Science Fiction. 1952. Predictions first updated as "Pandora's
Box" in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) and updated again
as "Pandora's Box" and "Where To?" in Expanded Universe (1980).
Robert A. Heinlein. Ray Guns and Rocket Ships. 1952.
Collected in Expanded Universe (1980). on writing for juveniles
[LS:10-11].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Rolling Stones. Scribner's (New
York: 1952). room enough "to swing a cat" [LS:14]; excellence of
technical exposition [LS:23]; instructive influence of the
Heinlein juveniles [LS:24]; message [LS:43].
Robert A. Heinlein, ed. Tomorrow the Stars. 1952. Berkley
Books edition, 1967.
Robert A. Heinlein. Project Nightmare. Amazing Stories.
April, 1953. Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).
Robert A. Heinlein. Sky Lift. Imagination. November, 1953.
Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).
Robert A. Heinlein. Starman Jones. Scribner's (New York:
1953). rating with Huckleberry Finn and Treasure Island [LS:10];
theological reading [LS:115-116].
Robert A. Heinlein. Assignment in Eternity. 1953. Signet
Books edition, 1970. Collects Elsewhen (1941), Gulf (1949),
Jerry Was a Man (1947), and Lost Legacy (1941).
Robert A. Heinlein. Revolt in 2100. 1953. Signet Books
edition, 1970. Collects Coventry (1940), If This Goes On--
(1940), and Misfit (1939). disclaimer of any predictive ability
[LS:63].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Star Beast. Scribner's (New York:
1954).
Robert A. Heinlein. Project Moonbase (screenplay). Lippert
Productions.
Robert A. Heinlein. Tunnel in the Sky. Scribner's (New York:
1955). juvenile heroism [LS:31-32].
Robert A. Heinlein. Double Star. Astounding Science Fiction.
February-April, 1956. 1956 Hugo Award. Signet Books edition,
1970. Farleyfiles [LS:18-19].
Robert A. Heinlein. Time for the Stars. Scribner's (New
York: 1956). basics of mental health [LS:23-24].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Door Into Summer. The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction. October-December, 1956. Signet
Books edition, 1975. opening paragraph compared with Poe
[LS:4-5]; Petronius the Arbiter and a former Heinlein cat
[LS:14]; recovery from loss [LS:20]; one-and-the-many
[LS:110-111].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Menace from Earth. The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction. August, 1957. Collected in The
Menace from Earth (1959).
Robert A. Heinlein. The Man Who Traveled in Elephants.
Saturn. October, 1957. Collected as "The Elephant Circuit" in 6
x H (1959). Collected in New Destinies 6 (Winter, 1988). ideals
of sex quality [LS:65].
Robert A. Heinlein. Citizen of the Galaxy. Scribner's (New
York: 1957). frontier advantages [LS:31]; knowledge of
anthropology, Margaret Mader = Margaret Mead [LS:40]; First Human
Civilization to come [LS:95].
Robert A. Heinlein. Have Space Suit -- Will Travel.
Scribner's (New York: 1958). comparison with Huckleberry Finn
and Treasure Island [LS:10]; modern chivalry [LS:74]; cult of
mediocrity [LS:90]; responsibility of natural gifts [LS:90-93];
theological reading [LS:116].
Robert A. Heinlein. All You Zombies--. The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction. March, 1959. Collected in 6 x H
(1959). breaking out of the mold under his own name [LS:38];
rejection, not embrace of solipsism [LS:41].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Menace from Earth. 1959. Signet
Books edition, 1970. Collects By His Bootstraps (1941), Columbus
Was a Dope (1947), Goldfish Bowl (1942), The Menace from Earth
(1957), Project Nightmare (1953), Sky Lift (1953), Water is for
Washing (1947), The Year of the Jackpot (1952).
Robert A. Heinlein. 6 x H. 1959. Pyramid Books edition,
1961. Reprints All You Zombies (1959), And He Built a Crooked
House (1941), The Elephant Circuit (1957), Our Fair City (1949),
They (1941), and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
(1942).
Robert A. Heinlein. Starship Troopers. The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction. October - November, 1959. Putnam's
(New York: 1960). 1960 Hugo Award. Signet Books edition, 1961.
rejection by Scribner's, although one of the juveniles [LS:45];
criticism, SFWA, SFRA, fascism [LS:46-47, 134 chapter 5 note 6];
moral difference between soldiers and civilians [LS:47-52];
metaphor for the cold war [LS:60].
Robert A. Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land. 1961. Avon
Books edition, 1962. 1962 Hugo Award. First book by a devoted
science-fiction writer to reach the New York Times best-seller
list. invention of water bed [LS:18]; sexuality [LS:53-55];
purpose of sex, primacy of women [LS:54]; getting rich in
America, religion [LS:55-56]; phony Charles Manson story
[LS:56-57]; Red Planet [LS:55]; critical self-reflection and the
American identity [LS:57-60]; title not Heinlein's [LS:134
chapter 6 note 3].
Robert A. Heinlein. Searchlight. Scientific American.
August, 1962. Fortune. September, 1962. (and many others:
printed as part of an advertising campaign). Collected in The
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966); The Past through Tomorrow
(1967). factual basis [LS:2; EU:447-452].
Robert A. Heinlein. Podkayne of Mars. If. November 1962 -
March 1963. Putnam's (New York: 1963). Berkley Books edition,
1975. use of viewpoint for ironic defamiliarization [LS:11-12];
Bertrand Russell [LS:12]; intended as juvenile, delay in
publication [LS:45-46].
Robert A. Heinlein. Glory Road. The Magazine of Fantasy and
Science Fiction. July-September, 1963. Berkley Books edition,
1970. importance of heroes [LS:52].
Robert A. Heinlein. Farnham's Freehold. If. July-August,
1964. Signet Books edition, 1965. branded racist [LS:60-61];
duty to family [LS:61]; Heinlein's only graphical depiction of
sex [LS:64].
Robert A. Heinlein. Orphans of the Sky. 1964. Signet Books
edition, 1965. Collects Universe (1941) and Common Sense (1941)
under one cover.
Robert A. Heinlein. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. If.
December 1965 - April 1966. 1966. 1967 Hugo Award. Berkley
Books edition, 1968. colonial spirit [LS:32-33]; socialist
origins of TANSTAAFL! [LS:83-84]; importance of manners and
relationship to The Cat Who Walks Through Walls [LS:84-85].
Robert A. Heinlein. Free Men. Original story prepared for
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein. 1966. Collected in Expanded
Universe (1980).
Robert A. Heinlein. The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein. Ace
Books (New York: 1966). Collection of Blowups Happen (1940),
Free Men (1966), Life-Line (1939), Searchlight (1962), Solution
Unsatisfactory (1941). Updates "Where To?" (1952) as "Pandora's
Box." Updated and expanded in "Expanded Universe (1980)."
Robert A. Heinlein. The Past through Tomorrow. G.P. Putnum's
(New York: 1967). Berkley Medallion Books edition, 1975.
Collects The Black Pits of Luna (1948), Blowups Happen (1940),
Coventry (1940), Delilah and the Space-Rigger (1949), Gentlemen,
Be Seated! (1948), The Green Hills of Earth (1947), If This Goes
On-- (1940), It's Great to be Back (1947), Life-Line (1939),
Logic of Empire (1941), The Long Watch (1949), The Man Who Sold
the Moon (1950), The Menace from Earth (1957), Methuselah's
Children (1941), Misfit (1939), Ordeal in Space (1948), Requiem
(1940), Searchlight (1962), Space Jockey (1947), We Also Walk
Dogs (1941). subtlety of the title [LS:25-26].
Robert A. Heinlein. I Will Fear No Evil. Galaxy Science
Fiction. July-December, 1970. Putnam's (New York: 1970). when
the fans themselves complain [LS:62]; the great brain transplant
joke [LS:63-64].
Robert A. Heinlein (guest commentator). p.107 in "10:56:20PM,
EDT, 7/20/69: The historic conquest of the moon as reported to
the American people by CBS over the CBS Television Network."
Columbia Broadcasting System (New York: 1970). presence of
Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Walter Cronkite
[LS:43].
Robert A. Heinlein. Channel Markers. James Forrestal
Memorial Lecture delivered at the U. S. Naval Academy, Anapolis.
April 5, 1973. Tape recording no. 190, "Forrestal Lecture at the
U.S. Naval Academy", American Audio Prose Library (Columbia, MO:
1973). Guest editorial in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact.
January, 1974. Reprinted as "The Pragmatics of Patriotism" in
Expanded Universe (1980). inspirational guidance of young readers
[LS:1-2].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Notebooks of Lazarus Long.
Astounding Science Fiction. June 1973. Portions of Time Enough
for Love (1974). Collected in New Destinies 6 (Winter, 1988).
sanity of "horse sense," relationship to Twain's Pudd'nhead
Wilson [LS:9-10]; positive outlook on human future [LS:12];
virtues of free enterprise [LS:13]; ailurophilia [LS:13-14];
self-reliance, human selfishness as virtue [LS:27-29]; inequities
of life, nature [LS:32]; protection of pregnant women and young
children, basis of society [LS:54]; sex and love [LS:64]; life is
rigged [LS:83]; Protestant work ethic [LS:88-90]; self-respect
[LS:93]; selfishness as productive force [LS:95]; duty
[LS:96-97]; human race, immortality of Man [LS:101-102]; fact
versus theory [LS:103-104]; humanity/Deity [LS:120-121].
Robert A. Heinlein. Time Enough for Love: The Lives of
Lazarus Long. 1973. Berkley Books edition, 1974. New York
Times best-seller list. resumption of Lazarus Long epic begun in
Methuselah's Children (1941) [LS:chronology]; inspiration by
grandfather Alva E. Lyle [LS:8-9]; pioneering in starships
[LS:25]; superiority of women to men [LS:65]; oedipal indictment
[LS:73]; epic form [LS:73-74]; Howard Foundation [LS:74];
Emersonian self-reliance [74-78]; family virtues [LS:76-78];
women-and-children-first [LS:71]; group marriage [LS:71];
calvinist determinism [LS:88-89]; time enough for love [LS:93].
Robert A. Heinlein. No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying--.
1973. Collected in Expanded Universe (1980). treatment of bed
patients [LS: 18]
Robert A. Heinlein. Developments in Theoretical Physics.
1975 Compton Yearbook. Encyclopeida Britannica, Inc. [LS:66].
Robert A. Heinlein. History of Hematology. 1976 Compton
Yearbook. Encylclopedia Britannica, Inc. Reprinted as pamphlet
"Are You a `Rare Blood'?" [LS:66].
Robert A. Heinlein. Applications of Space Technology for the
Elderly and Handicapped. Testimony before a joint session of the
House Select Committee on Aging and the House Committee on
Science and Technology. Washington, DC. July 19, 1979.
Robert A. Heinlein. The Number of the Beast. Fawcett
Columbine (New York: 1980). New York Times best-seller list.
featuring Lazarus Long [LS:chronology]; "where cat is, is
civilization" [LS:14]; a romp [LS:39]; magic, multiple-ego
solipsism, contrast to Waldo (1942) and Elsewhen (1941)
[LS:39-40]; connection with Lucifer, 666, Job [LS:42]; Heinlein's
one "puzzle" book [LS:67].
Robert A. Heinlein. A Bathroom of Her Own. 1980. Collected
in Expanded Universe (1980). Heinlein's political campaign
experience [LS:18].
Robert A. Heinlein. Expanded Universe. Ace Books (New York:
1980). Updating of "Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966)" to
include 21 uncollected pieces plus commentaries on all of them.
Robert A. Heinlein. Friday. Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New
York: 1982). "Friday's heroine is named after the Norse
fertility goddess Freya. Indeed, she herself is one of those
mythical creatures of science-fiction convention, a bionic
construct, partly human and partly artificial. This gives her
the advantage of an outsider's viewpoint, like that of the
proverbial Martian, which she does not hesitate to articulate.
[LS:p.67]" New York Times best-seller list. Re-appearance of
Hartly Baldwin from "Gulf" [LS:p.67]; cheap power, Shipstone
devices [LS:44, 68]; arguments against particularism (vs.
pluralism) [LS:68-69]; civility and manners [LS:69-70]; cultural
criticism [LS:71-72].
Robert A. Heinlein. Job: A Comedy of Justice. 1984.
Ballantine Books edition, 1984. New York Times best-seller list.
virtue over moral instruction, recovery from adversity [LS:20];
connection with The Number of the Beast [LS:42]; favored versus
Starship Trooper [LS:49]; eqalitarian marriage [LS:65]; mockery
of Moral Majority [LS:78-79]; Holy City and Stranger in a
Strange Land [LS:79-80]; Koschei and Jurgen [LS:80-81]; the
comedy of justice [LS:81-82]; Glaroon in "They" [LS:106].
Robert A. Heinlein. The Cat Who Walks through Walls: A Comedy
of Manners. Putnam's (New York: 1985). New York Times best-
seller list. featuring Lazarus Long [LS:chronology]; horse sense
as the real thing [LS:10]; published on 150th anniversary of Mark
Twain's birth [LS:14]; Pixel, the Heinlein's cat [LS:14]; multi-
person solipsism [LS:40]; possibilites of legal, social, and
political order of off-Earth habitats [LS:12-13]; lessons of
diplomacy [LS:20]; "the manners are the morals," Edmund Spenser
[LS:20]; sequel to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [LS:83];
significance of manners [LS:84-85].
Robert A. Heinlein. A Message to the Berkley Sales Force
concerning "The Cat Who Walks through Walls." tape recording.
April 26, 1986. Transcript in Heinlein archive with opus 188
[The Cat Who Walks through Walls]. banned in Las Vegas [LS:123].
Robert A. Heinlein. To Sail beyond the Sunset--. Published
July 7, 1987 on Heinlein's 80th birthday. social criticism
[LS:122-125]; D.D.Harriman again [LS:125]; free will
[LS:125-126]; Heinlein's vision for humanity [LS:126-128].
Robert A. "Beast" Heinlein. The Names of the Beast in "The
Number of the Beast." pp. 129-130 in "Robert A. Heinlein" by
Leon Stover. Twayne G. K. Hall (Boston: 1987). biblical
allusions, fantasy celebration [LS:39-40].
Robert A. Heinlein. Grumbles from the Grave. Writings set
aside for posthumous publication. Scheduled for 1990
publication.
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Subject: RAH8812A.BIB Heinlein Biography and Criticism
Keywords: Heinlein Stover Baen Critics Biography citations
From: deh0654@sjfc.UUCP (Dennis E. Hamilton)
Organization: St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
Date: 20 Mar 89 04:34:30 GMT
RAH8812A.BIB 1.01 dh:89-03-12
Heinlein Biography and Criticism
This portion of my continuing compilation of materials on the
life and work of writer-philosopher Robert A. Heinlein
concentrates on biographical information and identification of
critical discussions of his work. [The first version was posted,
recently, to the CompuServe sci-fi Forum. This Usenet version
differs mainly in having been reformatted from justified to
ragged paragraphs to make it easier on the variety of document
and display forms in which Usenet materials are encountered.
This is also the latest edition. Note that the file consists of
refer-format bibliography entries. Although the %-code cues are
basically self-evident from their content, these cues may be
missing from Internet-digest versions.
--dh:89-03-12]
Please understand that these are in-progress notes and not well-
organized groupings of comprehensive material. My searching out,
re-reading and digestion of Heinlein material is by no means
systematic, and did not start out with any particular plan. I've
been moved more by my personal affection for Heinlein's work and
some indignation about the shallow, sneering observations some
find important to direct at both him and his writings. As I
encounter blatant cases of dishonest (e.g., absent) scholarship
and straw-man fabrications of Heinlein statements and themes, I
tend to record what I find in the actual "offensive" and despised
works as a kind of counter-balance.
Meanwhile, I now have stacks of Heinlein books that merit
rereading and careful analysis. And like all amateur scholars, I
am afflicted with other demands for my time, along with an
undisciplined (though compulsive) span of attention.
About format. These files are more-or-less in the Unix "refer"
format and are amenable to manipulation by the "bib" and "hum"
packages developed by Bill Tuthill and chums at the University of
California at Berkeley and made available over a variety of
channels for use on Unix systems. (The software is written in C
and convertible to a number of other environments as well.) In
addition, other tools derived from Unix progenitors are very
useful. For example, using "grep" or any of its pattern-finding
clones to locate all occurences of a term or phrase in a
collection of files, along with a smart editor, like the
Microsoft Editor, M, lets you find occurences of particular terms
or names and browse through the passages that contain them, one
by one. There are other imaginative uses in conjunction with
database packages that tolerate free text material. [Finding a
way to "hyperlink" these materials is an appealing idea, an
obvious one held about my alt.hypertext-circulated compilations
on hypertext too. I've done nothing about it, however.]
The choice of refer format is not meant to be superior or
sacrosanct. The advantage of this particular format, which is
triggered by special codes in the beginning of lines (like "%B,"
"%Z ISDN," "%X"), is the ease with which it can be converted to a
different format using a variety of text conversion tools,
including AWK, Borland SPRINT's clever data-merge facility, and
other tools that will recognize patterns over multiple lines of
text.)
-- Dennis E. Hamilton
February 11, 1989
%A Tom Easton
%T "Robert Heinlein" by Leon Stover
%J Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
%V 108
%N 12
%D December, 1988
%P 167
%O Review
%O The Reference Library department
%K Stover Cronkite Heinlein Whitman Emerson Twain E=EC**2
"He has put his finger on what seem some very real reasons for
Heinlein's popularity, and his book is a welcome counterweight to
some of the more negative exercises of the last few years.
"The greatest criticism to which Stover is open to is that he
often seems too worshipful, too willing to call the Great One as
infallible as a pope."
As an example of a sort of fallibility, Heinlein is alleged to
have claimed, in a conversation with Walter Cronkite, that there
is just one equation that everbody knows. Although the equation
is presumably Einstein's famous E = MC**2, the book has it
mistyped as E = EC**2 and therefore testimony to the fact that
not even this equation is known to everyone, considering the
ample opportunities for an editor or proof-reader to have
corrected it. Easton offers the typo as perfect proof that
Heinlein was mistaken. [I suppose that this criticism can be
taken as another indictment of the decline of education as well,
and certainly the deterioration of craft. The book is replete
with typographical errors, including a number of contradictory
dates in the bibliographical commentaries. dh:88-12-30]
[dh:88-12-27]
%A Leon E. Stover
%T Robert A. Heinlein
%I G. K. Hall and Company Twayne Publishers
%C Boston, MA
%D 1987
%Z ISBN 0-8057-7509-9 alk. paper
%O Twayne's United States Authors Series, Warren French, editor
%O Cover photograph taken ca. 1939-1941 by William Corson
%K Heinlein biography criticism Stover
%X Contents: About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgments;
Chronology; 1 The Admiral and Mark Twain; 2 The Fifty-Dollar
Amateur Writer's Prize; 3 History to Come: New Frontiers; 4 Other
Voices, Other Rooms; 5 Recognition and Controversy; 6 Sex and
Culture Criticism; 7 The Cave of Persecution; 8 Calvinist
Mythology; 9 Stories of Damnation and Salvation; 10 A Comedy of
Errors; 11 Last-Minute News; Appendix: The Names of the Beast in
"The Number of the Beast," by R. A. "Beast" Heinlein; Notes and
References; Selected Bibliography; Index.
In the following biographical material, references to
passages in the Stover book are in the form [LJ:...]. Where
there are also important references to Heinlein's own remarks in
"Expanded Universe," the form [EU:...] is used. I have also
added leavening from "Current Biography" [March, 1955],
"Contemporary Literary Criticism" and other sources.
[dh:88-12-30]
ANCESTORS: Matheis Heinlein arrived in Philadelphia on
October 31, 1754 and settled in Durham Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, raising two daughters and son George Heinlein
(1742-1805), captain of Durham township militia throughout the
Revolutionary War. About 1860, Heinlein's triple great
grandfather and three others among George's grandsons and great-
grandsons moved to Ohio. Heinlein's paternal grandfather one of
early settlers of Missouri. anecdotes passed down in the
Heinlein Family Association [LS:8]
MOTHER: Bam Lyle (Heinlein), daughter of Doctor Alva E. Lyle
(-1914, inspiration for "Time Enough for Love" [LS:8-9]) a
country doctor settled in Butler, Missouri.
FATHER: Rex Ivar Heinlein
SIBLINGS: six, with Robert the third. the eldest brother
was a Professor of Political Science. The second brother, Rex
Heinlein, graduated from Annopolis earlier making Robert's
Annapolis appointment all the more unusual; Rex entered the Army
and became the colonel in charge of the Electrical Engineering
department at West Point [LS:17]. [Yoji Kondo and Charles
Sheffield mention Heinlein's brother, retired general Lawrence
Heinlein. It is not clear whether this is Rex or another
sibling. dh:88-01-09]
BORN: July 7, 1907, in Butler, Missouri.
EDUCATION: Taught chess by grandfather Lyle at age four,
even before learning to read [LS:8]. Read "Origin of Species"
and "Descent of Man" at age of 13. Encounters first science-
fiction magazine while traveling in 1923. Kansas City Central
High School, National Honor Society, 1924; University of
Missouri, 1924-1925; U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, graduating
20th in class of 243, 1929; graduate study in physics and
mathematics at UCLA in 1934-1939 period.
MILITARY EXPERIENCE: Gunnery officer, U. S. Navy, 1929-1934.
Member of the Minutemen of U.S.S. Lexington. [Heinlein served on
the Lexington while it provided an unusual service: generation of
electrical power for the city of Tacoma, Washington, my
birthplace, during a failure of the local system. He was proud
to tell me about this during his and Virginia's attendance at the
19th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Seattle.]; member
U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, the Naval Institute, the
Retired Officers Association, Navy League advisory status, Air
Force Association advisory status, Air Power Council advisory
status, Association of the Army of the United States advisory
status [LS:7]
OTHER EXPERIENCE: brickwork, gardening, photography[EU:94].
architecture [designed Santa Cruz, California home lived in since
1966], real estate, mining, politics (unsuccessful campaign for
California State Assembly [LS:18-21, EU:4]). civilian research
engineer at Philadelphia Naval Air Experimental Station (Mustin
Field), 1942-1945; Buddy Scoles, Searchlight, and the writing of
the Foundation Series [EU:455-457]; recruitment of Isaac Asimov
and L. Sprague de Camp [LS:22]. philosopher-author of
speculative fiction, 1939-1987; comparison with Mark Twain
[LS:6-8]
OTHER AFFILIATIONS: Manana Literary Society, ca. 1940
conversations with William A. P. White ("Anthony
Boucher")[EU:92]. L-5 Society; members as "Heinlein's Children"
[LS:13]; cited by Space Settlement Studies Project at Niagara
University [LS:12]. Advisor to Lieutenant General Danial O.
Graham on position papers for Project High Frontiers (adopted as
SDI) [LS:13]
BACKGROUND AND INTERESTS: Democrat [at time sought office]
and Methodist [Discipline of 1904 cradle religion, but broken
with on reading Darwin][LS:86-87]; shared Puritan heritage with
and admiration for Samuel Clemens [LS:3-4]. Member, U.S. Figure
Skating Association. Expert marksman. Hobbies include
astronomy, semantics, figure skating, cats, fiscal theory,
politics, civil liberties, talking and traveling.
AWARDS AND HONORS: Third World Science Fiction Convention
Guest of Honor, 1941; Hugo Award for Double Star, 1956; Hugo
Award for Starship Troopers, 1960; Nineteenth World Science
Fiction Convention Guest of Honor, 1961; Hugo Award for Stranger
in a Strange Land, 1962; Hugo Award for The Moon is a Harsh
Mistress, 1967; first Grand Masters Award by Science Fiction
Writers of America [SFWA: founded in 1965], 1975. Thirty-Fourth
World Science Fiction Convention Guest of Honor, 1976.
HEALTH: invalided out of Navy in 1934 because of
tuberculosis; parallels with lives of H.G.Wells and Robert Louis
Stevenson [LS:3]. Enters Fitsimmons hospital, Denver Colorado,
for recuperation from TB, 1950. 1978 surgery for carotid artery
bypass following transient ischemic attach. Member of National
Rare Blood (donors) club and persistent advocate for the
voluntary blood donation system.
FAMILY: Wife, Virginia "Ginny" Doris Gerstenfeld, married in
1948. WAVE Lieutenant, chemist, and aeronautical test engineer
who met Heinlein at Mustin Field. [The London Times obituary
mentions a first marriage. However, it also reports a different
birthplace.]
DIED: May 8, 1988.
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%A Robert A. Heinlein
%T various literary criticisms
%B Contemporary Literary Criticism (annual)
%V 1, 3, 8, 14, 26
%D 1973, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1983
%K Heinlein criticism Wolheim Atheling Knight Panshin Twain
Kipling Ayn Rand Rose Bester McNelly Showalter Slusser
Rogers Olander Greenberg Sturgeon
%X The "Contemporary Literary Criticism" reference series,
available on the shelves of all good public libraries, provides
some interesting insight into the critical treatment of
Heinlein's work. The chronology is also important:
In 1967, Damon Knight [In Search of Wonder. Advent
Publishers (Chicago: 1967)] compared Heinlein to Mark Twain, a
recuring observation.
In 1968, Alexei Panshin characterizes Heinlein's third
period as the interval from 1959-1967 and compares Heinlein with
Kipling, granting him a small place of comparable stature.
Panshin observes that, by and large, the most truly individual of
Heinlein's characters have been the various aliens that have
populated a number of his juvenile novels.
In 1970, Lois and Stephen Rose class Heinlein as an elitist
and compare him to Ayn Rand.
Similarly, Willis E. McNelly complements Heinlein for
Whorfian consistency and compares him with Swift (in "Linguistic
relativity in Middle High Martian").
In 1971, Atheling comments that Heinlein attempts the most
difficult point of view -- the first-person story, told by the
principal actor, as in "The Puppet Masters," "Double Star," and
"The Door Into Summer."
In 1971's "Universe Makers," Wolheim observes that "this is
the one constant that Heinlein will not surrender. Humanity,
whatever its faults, is the best thing going and will never be
pinned to the mat."
Perhaps the simplest observation is Alfred Bester's
(reviewing "Time Enough for Love," evidently) that the new book
"will evoke the same reaction that his 30-odd previous books
have: a curious combination of admiration, awe, shock, hatred,
and fascination."
In 1975, Dennis E. Showalter [Extrapolation 16, 2 (May,
1975), 113-124] addresses the flap over Starship Trooper and
that, since its Hugo Award, critics and reviewers have been
apologizing for this militaristic polemic ever since.
"Nevertheless, consideration of the social structure outlined in
Starship Troopers in the context of recent scholarship on fascism
and militarism suggests that, in fact, neither ideology is
embodied in this work, and the critics of Heinlein's views and
visions must find new pejorative terms with which to condemn the
novel. ... At least as significant in demonstrating that
Heinlein's society is not fascistic is the absence of racism and
xenophobia. ..."
In 1977 George Edgar Slusser observes that "Invariably, each
individual critic has chosen the works he likes best, dubbed them
classics, and consigned the rest to oblivion."
And in 1978 Ivor A. Rogers sums up the situation up to that
point, observing that "the most common criticism of Heinlein is
based on his (supposed) political ideology, and much of the
political philosophy expressed by some of his characters does set
the teeth on edge; but Liberal knee-jerk reflex has no more place
in a mature consideration of his work than Conservative knee-jerk
adulation does. Ideological considerations aside, Heinlein
appeals to and is criticized by a wide variety of `-ists,' `-
ats,' and `-ites'; and there is little consensus on what is his
best work."
In their 1978 collection on Heinlein, Joseph D. Olander and
Martin Harry Greenberg make the following observations, much in
line with what seems to be Heinlein's own perspective: "While
Heinlein is concerned with the survival of the group and of the
race, his emphasis is on the survival of those individuals within
society with the talent and the courage to ensure racial survival
-- the competent. The view that the survival of the fittest
equals the survival of the best finds contemporary expression in
his science fiction. Survival for the competent is a
prerequisite for the survival of the rest, and from this
perspective flows his attitude toward morality.
"But we should not be misguided by this simplification, for
Heinlein often forces us to recognize basic questions: What kind
of political order do we ourselves live in? Does it affirm,
reaffirm, or deny our own good qualities as human beings? What
instruments, purposes, and values does our own political order
serve? What will it serve in the future, and what will it mean
in terms of our survival as a species and as individuals? We may
be surprised to learn that Heinlein's fiction points less to the
importance of technological tools to help us confront the future
and more to our need to reexamine ourselves."
Finally, Theodore Sturgeon [Capital S for Story. Los
Angeles Times Book Review. June 20, 1982] provides another
slant: "Friday herself is a delight. She is as strong and
resourceful and decisive as any Heinlein hero; in addition, she
is loving (oh, yes) and tender and very, very female. She also
has an evolved ethics -- the ability to discard past hatreds and
dislikes and so to meet people, day by day, in terms of what they
are now, and not to judge them by what they have been."
[dh:88-12-30]
%A Robert A. Heinlein
%T Robert A. Heinlein
%P 103
%B Something About the Author
%V 9
%E Anne Commire
%I Gale Research
%C Detroit, MI
%D 1976
%Z ISBN 0-8103-0066-4
%X "Although my primary purpose in writing is to entertain, my
work naturally reflects my personal evaluations. `A man without
learning is crippled; nothing in this life is free; the universe
does not forgive stupidity; honesty, courage, loyalty and duty
are not only their own reward, but the only reward a self-
respecting person needs.' "
[dh:88-12-30]
%A Brian W. Aldiss
%T Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction
%I Doubleday
%C Garden City, NY
%D 1973
%K Heinlein
%X Heinlein references on pp. 228f, 269-74. "Britain's
outstanding science-fiction author here serves up Heinlein with a
tone of mockery approaching contempt." (Leon Stover [LS:p.141]).
%A H. Bruce Franklin
%T Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction
%I Oxford University Press
%C New York
%D 1980
%X "Belongs to the academic canon of Marxist literature, in its
use of Heinlein as a vehicle for hostile culture criticism."
(Leon Stover [LS:p.141])
%E Joseph D. Olander
%E Martin H. Greenberg
%T Robert A. Heinlein
%I Taplinger
%C New York
%D 1977
%X "Contains nine topical essays by various academics, treating
of oedipal conflicts, social Darwinism and the like. The one
positive essay is by Jack Williamson, both teacher and writer, on
the juveniles." (Leon Stover [LS:p.141])
%A Alexei Panshin
%T Heinlein in Dimension
%I Advent
%C Chicago
%D 1968
%X "The first book-length study of Heinlein's work, done by a
writer credited with a Nebula Award. Its loaded biographical
approach has much influenced the style of later academic
criticism." (Leon Stover [LS:p.142])
%A Alexei Panshin
%A Cory Panshin
%T Science Fiction in Dimension
%I Advent
%C Chicago
%D 1976
%X The chapter, "Reading Heinlein Subjectively" is labeled by
Leon Stover [LS:p.142] as an extension of the approach in
"Heinlein in Dimension."
%A George Edgar Slusser
%T The Classic Years of Robert A. Heinlein
%I Borgo Press
%C San Bernardino, CA
%D 1977
%X Leon Stover [LS:p.142] sees this as tracing the same
Calvinistic mythology that Stover pursued in his book on H. G.
Wells, but with mixed feelings about its constraints on the art
of story telling.
%A George Edgar Slusser
%T Stranger in His Own Land
%I Borgo Press
%C San Bernardino, CA
%D 1976
%X "Argues that the later Heinlein fails his early promise.
Professor Slusser won the Pilgrim Award for 1986 from the SFRA
[Science Fiction Research Association]." (Leon Stover
[LS:p.142]). For more on the SFRA and the different regard held
by fans versus writers versus critics, see the Stover "Robert A.
Heinlein."
[dh:88-12-30]
%A Spider Robinson
%T Robert A. Heinlein: A Sermon
%J Destinies
%V 2
%N 3
%D 1980
%X Subtitle: "Rah, Rah, R.A.H!" Reprinted in New Destinies 6
(Winter, 1988).
%A Patrick Cox
%T Robert A. Heinlein: A Conservative View of the Future
%J The Wall Street Journal
%D December 10, 1985
%A Eric Hoffman
%T The Man Who Writes through Time
%J The San Francisco Examiner
%D February 9, 1986
%O Image magazine section
%A Jerry Pournelle
%T In Appreciation: Robert A. Heinlein
%J New Destinies
%V 6
%D Winter, 1988
%O address to the annual Nebula Awards Ceremony of the Science
Fiction Writers of America, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel,
Saturday, May 21, 1988.
%A Rick Cook
%T Robert A. Heinlein and the Coming Age of Space
%J New Destinies
%V 6
%D Winter, 1988
%A Dr. Yoji Kondo
%A Dr. Charles Sheffield
%T Farewell to the Master
%J New Destinies
%V 6
%D Winter, 1988
%O Robert A. Heinlein appreciation
%O Title intentionally borrowed from Harry Bates
%E Jim Baen
%J New Destinies
%V 6
%D Winter, 1988
%I Baen Books
%C New York
%O Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue
%O Cover art by David Cherry
%O "This and every issue of New Destinies is dedicated to the
memory of Robert A. Heinlein."
%Z ISBN 0-671-69796-X
%K Sheffield Pournelle Robinson Baen Heinlein Cook Kondo poetry
fiction appreciations
%X "Robert Heinlein was my friend. When he died I wanted to do
something--no large or otherwise pretentious thing, but
*something*--to, in effect, throw a flower on his grave. For
that reason I approached his agent, Eleanor Wood, for permission
to republish `The Notebooks of Lazarus Long,' in New Destinies.
Both Eleanor and Virginia Heinlein thought it was a fine idea.
"Then it occured to me that Robert had been very pleased with
Spider Robinson's assesment of his work in `Rah Rah R.A.H!' So I
called Spider. He was delighted of course. Well, one thing led
to another, as will happen when Robert is involved, and so was
born the Robert Heinlein Memorial Edition of New Destinies. In
addition to the `Notebooks' and `Rah Rah R.A.H!' it includes a
eulogy by Jerry Pournelle and at Jerry's behest, and because it
is central to the eulogy, Robert's story `The Long Watch.' It
also includes `Farewell,' by Robert's friends, Charles Sheffield
and Yoji Kodo; Robert's own favorite story from all his oevre,
`The Man Who Traveled in Elephants'; and best of all, two
previously unpublished poems by Robert Heinlein on the subject
that to him mattered more than anything.
"It is almost a matter of discomfort to me that my
distributors think this issue of New Destinies will be in far
greater demand than any before (and very probably any that will
follow), but on reflection I'm sure that Mr. Heinlein would have
been delighted."
-- Jim Baen, Publisher and Editor.
Includes In Appreciation: Robert A. Heinlein (Jerry
Pournelle), The Long Watch (Robert A. Heinlein: 1948), Dance
Session (Robert A. Heinlein: poem, 1946), Rah Rah R.A.H (Spider
Robinson: 1980), Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long
(Robert A. Heinlein: 1973), Robert A. Heinlein and the Coming Age
of Space (Rick Cook: 1988), The Man Who Traveled in Elephants
(Robert A. Heinlein: 1957), Farewell to the Master (Dr. Yoji
Kondo and Dr. Charles Sheffield: 1988), The Witch's Daughters
(Robert A. Heinlein: poem, 1946). There are also additional
stories and articles by Spider Robinson, Vernor Vinge, Rick Cook,
John Moore, and Harry Turtledove.
** end of RAH8812A.BIB **
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Subject: Re: Heinlein
From: djo@PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: 18 Apr 89 16:43:15 GMT
In article <99503@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>In article <3035@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>, eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>> after noticing the quote at the end of one of my postings, a reader
>> wrote and told me that Heinlein is known to be somewhat racist.
>>
>> could anyone give me any more information on this claim?
>The reputation as a racist probably derives from "Sixth Column".
>
>The offending aspects of the story were almost certainly there
>because of demands by John Campbell who was the editor of the
>magazine in which the story was published.
A bit more complex than that. SIXTH COLUMN is the only known case of Heinlein
writing a novel specifically to editorial request/order.
JWC was in the habit of coming up with "neat ideas" and tossing them to his
writers to flesh into stories. RAH was probably his only major writer who
didn't make use of this free idea service (Schenectady!), but was prevailed
upon by JWC on one occasion to do a novel that JWC felt none of his other
writers could carry off right.
This is where the stories diverge. It is generally conceded that JWC had
actually taken a crack at writing the story himself -- in those days he still
kept his hand in, slightly -- but there is a vocal minority who believe that
he had done no more than sketch the outline. I personally don't believe this.
RAH's version is that Campbell gave him a draft. (It may have been a partial
draft; I'm not near my references.) RAH claims that he _toned_down_ the "yellow
peril" racism from JWC's version.
On the third hand... A good friend of mine, Dave Nee, whom I know to be an
honest sort, claims to have read the Campbell ms. and says that it's _LESS_
racist than what RAH finally published.
Who knows? It's all forty years ago, now, anyway...
Ewige blumenkraft!
Das Roach
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Subject: Re: Heinlein and racism
From: bg0l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce E. Golightly)
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Date: 19 Apr 89 16:27:54 GMT
There really is a version attributed to Campbell. I ran across it in an
anthology a while back. I can't remember details clearly, but I think
the name of the volume was something like Before the Golden Age. I'm
not sure who put it together, either. I want to say Dr. A., but that
may be wrong. I'll try to find it again and post more concrete answers.
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Subject: SF-LOVERS Digest V14 #97
From: bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU
Date: 20 Apr 89 02:08:22 GMT
> This is where the stories diverge. It is generally conceded that JWC had
> actually taken a crack at writing the story himself -- in those days he
> still kept his hand in, slightly -- but there is a vocal minority who
> believe that he had done no more than sketch the outline. I personally
> don't believe this.
Campbell's version of the story was published a dozen or so years ago. It's
called _All_, which was Campbell's name for the deity Heinlein renamed Mota.
It was published along with two other short novels -- I can't remember the
names, but they were very space-operatic. I think that the collection was
named after one of the other stories. It's bibliography time, I think.
-- Bard the modal logic gargoyle
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Subject: More info on Campbell "All" -> Heinlein "Sixth Column"
From: stuart@rennet.cs.wisc.edu (Stuart Friedberg)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Date: 23 Apr 89 22:59:43 GMT
I finally dug up my paperback copy of "The Space Beyond" and found some
more details on the story behind Heinlein's story "Sixth Column". It
turns out that Campbell's original version of the story was not
published until 35 years after Heinlein's version.
Book:
title: The Space Beyond
author: John W. Campbell, Jr.
editor: Roger Elwood
publisher: Pyramid Books (division of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY)
copyright 1976 by the Estate of John W. Campbell, Jr.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-15110
(sorry, no ISBN, and I forgot to write down the publisher's number)
Contents:
Introduction by Isaac Asimov
`Marooned' by J.W. Campbell
`All' by J.W. Campbell
`The Space Beyond' by J.W. Campbell
Afterword by George Zebrowski
Quotation from the Introduction by Isaac Asimov:
"Campbell's hand is, I believe, quite obvious in the early work of the
greatest of all writers of the Golden Age, Robert A. Heinlein. `All',
included in this volume, became `Sixth Column' by Heinlein, published
under the pseudonym of Anson McDonald, in the January, February, and
March 1941 issues of Astounding."
Quotation from the Afterword by George Zebrowski:
"`All' was signed Don A. Stuart, [a pseudonym of Campbell]. The
background to `All' was later given to Robert A. Heinlein, who wrote a
much longer novel based on it (`Sixth Column', currently known as `The
Day After Tomorrow', Signet). These three short novels [`Marooned',
`All', `The Space Beyond'] are the only original stories by Campbell to
appear since his last story in the 1950s.
"`All' is an entertainingly written fairy tale about an oppressed group
winning freedom with the aid of mighty forces (atomic energy of a
mystical variety). The story seems curiously nationalistic [!], but
this can be excused on the grounds that the situation involved an
invaded country fighting for its freedom. [...] In Heinlein's version,
the characters treate their invented religion pragmatically; but
Campbell's scientists seem almost to be believe their own Platonic
myths. Heinlein was perhaps commenting on this aspect of his editor's
version when he showed us a character who goes insane thinking he has
become a diety."
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Subject: New Heinlein Editions
Keywords: Heinlein
From: tiedeman@acf3.NYU.EDU (Eric S. Tiedemann)
Organization: THQ
Date: 22 Jun 89 00:42:35 GMT
[Forwarded from CI$]
#: 79380 S3/Science Fiction
19-Jun-89 13:15:39
Sb: #"New" Heinlein Coming
Fm: Michael P. Kube-McDowell 73740,15
To: [F] All
Heinlein fans, students, and critics alike:
Spider Robinson has passed on to me, and invited me to spread further, some
very interesting news about revised editions of three Robert Heinlein classics.
According to the report:
The next edition of RED PLANET will contain "a great deal" of new wordage
cut from the original manuscript by the original editor.
The next edition of THE PUPPET MASTERS will have both new material and a
different ending.
And the next edition of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND will have an additional
50,000 words cut from the original against Heinlein's wishes.
Apparently (although I'm not entirely clear on the particulars), these new
editions will be appearing as a consequence of Heinlein's death and its impact
on the contract and copyright status of his works. I don't know who will be
publishing these revised editions or what the timetable is. If I scare up any
further information or rumors, you'll see them here first.
> MPK-M
*** There is a reply: 79407
#: 79407 S3/Science Fiction
19-Jun-89 16:52:13
Sb: #79380-#"New" Heinlein Coming
Fm: David Gerrold 70307,544
To: Michael P. Kube-McDowell 73740,15 (X)
This is good news.
I spoke with Ginny Heinlein and she mentioned that RAH's death invalidates
certain contractual agreements, which apparently allow her to resell the books
elsewhere. I would assume that she and Robert agreed on this particular plan.
Next time I chat with her I'll ask her for pub dates and more information.
dg
[ The new editions of THE PUPPET MASTERS and RED PLANET will be no surprise
to those who have been following Mrs. Heinlein's comments since RAH's
death. The situation with SiaSL, on the other hand, is a different
story. Having recently finished an essay describing some of the more
obscure allusions in that work, I look forward to all that new material
with delight! --EST]
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Subject: Re: SF leading reality?
From: ellis@qal.qal.berkeley.edu (Michael Ellis)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Date: 4 Jul 89 07:05:18 GMT
In article paul@moncam.co.uk (Paul Hudson) writes:
>In article <975@oravax.UUCP> harper@oravax.UUCP (Douglas Harper) writes:
>
> In _Double Star_, the late Robert Heinlein describes a waterbed being
> used as an acceleration couch. Did waterbeds already exist or did he
> invent them?
>
>As far as I know, he invented them. I remember seeing some dicussion
>as to whether he should have applied for a patent...
>--
>Paul Hudson MAIL: Monotype ADG, Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 4FQ, UK.
What happened was that somebody else applied for a patent but couldn't
get one because Heinlein had already though of the concept and then
written about it, thereby putting it in the public domain.
BTW, Heinlein thought up the concept when he was sick (with malaria?).
It seems that one night in Panama he was lying in basically a blood-warm
swimming pool, one of the more comfortable experiences of his life.
When he got sick he often thought back to that night and about how
uncomfortable his then present bed was. Expanding on the idea brought
up the waterbed.
Now then:
How many people are looking forward to the new expanded versions of many
of his books, including _Door into Summer_? I am, but it's got me kind
of pissed because now I'm going to have to buy a lot of new Heinlein
novels.
And if you thought the old r.a.sf-lovers.heinlein.wars were bad just wait
until we get the new stuff.
Michael K. Ellis ellis@snowy.qal.berkeley.edu
Ranma Saotome as Ranma-chan
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Subject: Heinlein NON-bibliography & etc.
From: TED@bcvms.BITNET (Ted <*Thud*> Thibodeau)
Date: 11 Sep 89 18:45:00 GMT
Well, now friends, I have some information you might like to have. At
this year's WorldCon, there was a panel held by three individuals, all
of whom knew Heinlein fairly to extremely well, so I believe I can trust
their information. This also comes indirectly from Virginia Heinlein,
which renders it more trustworthy.
Caroline de Camp (L. Sprague's wife) - a friend of R.A.H. from the WWII era,
*I blanked on the other two names - Chuq? Saul? help me out?* one was an
author of the book, _Robert_A_Heinlein:_America_as_Science_Fiction_, and
who was contemplating a biography/update to include the last four or five
books; the third was Locus magazine's Editor, who had known RAH personally
for some thirty years before his death.
The words are: _Rumblings_From_The_Grave_ is a collection of letters from
RAH to/from his publisher, chosen by him for publication after his death.
There are plans to publish at least 5 future volumes of letters/musings
from the collection he built up, chosen and edited at least in part by
Ginny.
RAH was a naturist/nudist, believed most if not all of the philosophies he
put forth in his later books (which if read as philosophical statements
rather than as stories have much different effects on the reader!).
The final major point was this: there is no 'last unpublished book' written
and waiting for publication. Sadly, all of his latter works have already
been published; the only thing we can hope for (if we want more to read) is
that there exist some older works in the UC-archives which have not yet
been published. We can only wait and see.
Rah Rah R.A.H.! Enjoy the Summerlands, Water-Brother.
Thud
Ted Thibodeau, Jr. (Thud, Fyodor Ilyich Lobachevsy, Zamel)
40 Brook Street, Scituate, MA 02066-1334 (617) 545-4561
Borough of Cnock Castan, Barony of Carolingia, East Kingdom
InterNet: TED@BCVMS.BITNET
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Subject: TNew Version of The Puppet Masters
From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
Organization: The Asylum, Belmont, CA
Date: 24 Dec 89 16:38:46 GMT
After Heinlein's death, it was announced that new versions of some of
his books, with additional information that had been cut from the
original versions, would be released. Two of these are out: The Red
Planet and The Puppet Masters. Now, I've never read The Red Planet,
but I've read The Puppet Masters a lot, so I thought I'd check the new
version to see what changes were made.
There's not that much difference. (I won't go into detail unless
requested, because I don't want to get flamed for putting in spoilers.)
There's about 3 or 4 sections of an additional 3 pages each, and a few
paragraphs and sentences added here and there. The results are that:
o Sam is a much more horny guy :-)
o The relationship between Sam & Mary isn't nearly so two-dimensional
o The book is a little more mature
It's interesting but I don't know if it's worth buying. The cover is the
same as the older cover, with a splash of "For the first time! The complete
story!" or something like that. Oh, and it's in paperback.
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Subject: Re: TNew Version of The Puppet Masters
From: jgreely@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science
Date: 29 Dec 89 07:23:51 GMT
In article <9238@asylum.SF.CA.US> sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
writes:
>After Heinlein's death, it was announced that new versions of some of
>his books, with additional information that had been cut from the
>original versions, would be released.
(a quiet "hurrah" is heard from the cheap seats) Anyone know the
release schedule for the new editions, or at least a list of which
ones are being revised? Most of my juveniles got ripped off years
ago, and I put off replacing them. Now I have a perfect excuse...
>Two of these are out: The Red Planet and The Puppet Masters. Now,
>I've never read The Red Planet, but I've read The Puppet Masters a
>lot, so I thought I'd check the new version to see what changes were
>made.
I did the same with Red Planet. Overall the changes are minor, but
intriguing. The one that was easiest to spot was the change in Our
Hero's sister: she's more independent, outspoken, and boasts of being
a better shot than her brother (while trying to convince her father to
let her get her gun license). Still a minor character, but of a
different flavor. I'm curious to see what happens to The Rolling
Stones (if it gets re-released).
>It's interesting but I don't know if it's worth buying. The cover is the
>same as the older cover, with a splash of "For the first time! The complete
>story!" or something like that. Oh, and it's in paperback.
I'll be buying them. Buyers note: make sure you check for the
"complete, uncut" label before picking these up. Many stores still
stock the old ones, and they're identical except for that.
--
J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article about the Heinlein
books I had reread over the previous few weeks. Since then, I've
reread about half a dozen more (and more than doubled the size of my
article, adding not only information on what I'd reread, but on those
novels I don't feel are worth rereading, and those I think may be
worth rereading someday). Here it is. Warning: There are undboubledly
a few SPOILERS sprinkled in here.
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The recent Heinlein discussion on Usenet has caused me to go back and
reread a lot of my favorite Heinlein. In a way, this is a bittersweet
experience, because reading the good Heinlein always makes me think of his
eventual decline. However, the best of Heinlein if very good indeed.
His "peak" period, which lasted for about 20 years, was longer and
better than that of most other SF writers.
I didn't reread two of my favorites: Double Star and Citizen of the
Galaxy, since I had just reread them about six months ago. Both rank
among Heinlein's best, and could make a good argument for either one
being THE best Heinlein novel.
The ones I have reread (in the order in which I reread them) so far are:
Time for the Stars
A good novel, and one of the few that really looks at the implications
of relativity and instantaneous communication. Twins can communicate
telepathically, and this communication is instantaneous. Thus, it
becomes the only way for starships, moving at just under the speed of
light, to communicate with earth or each other. The society is nicely
drawn, the situation interesting (and in a few places rather dark),
and the characters reasonable. The book's greatest weakness is the
ending. It is one of several Heinlein books that give the impression
that Heinlein decided he had to end it somehow. The ending is both
rushed and trite. Despite that, it is a good book.
Starman Jones
A better than average "juvenile." It is in many ways on of Heinlein's
darker books. The first third of it reminds me of The Grapes of Wrath,
and seems to take place in an America going though a depression. Worse
yet, advancement into many niches in society is controlled by guilds.
It is compelling reading. The main two characters are well done, and
the situation believable. Like Time for the Stars, there are some
rather bleak moments in the book. Also like Time for the Stars, the
ending seems to be slapped on. But, again, despite that, a good book.
The Star Beast
This is one of Heinlein's best works. It's the story of John Thomas
Stuart and his extraterrestrial pet Lummox. Lummox is bigger than an
elephant and nearly indestructible. When he goes for a walk through
town (and wrecks a large piece of the town) he is ordered destroyed.
It is also the story of the Under Secretary of Stellar Affairs, Mr.
Kiko, who is one of the typical "Heinlein individuals." In fact, he is
in his way a far better character than the Heinlein individuals that
are more well known, such as Jubal Harshaw and Lazarus Long. Kiko, and
his assistant Sergei Greenberg, must solve the problem of Lummox while
also solving the problem of the Hroshi, an alien race that is
threatening the earth if their lost member isn't returned to them.
While this seems rather predictable, the devil (or the real joy of the
novel) is in the details. It's well paced, full of good characters
(including Betty, one of the times that Heinlein succeeded in creating
a good, strong female character), often humorous and serious at the
same time. It is highly recommended.
Have Space Suit--Will Travel
Alexi Panshin calls this one of Heinlein's two best books (Beyond This
Horizon is his other choice). I agree, at least on the former. Have
Space Suit--Will Travel is a tightly crafted novel. Unlike many other
Heinlein novels, it is beautifully structured, with no loose ends, no
parts that don't quite fit, and an ending that flows from the rest of
the novel. The characters, particularly that of PeeWee, the 11 year
old genius, are well drawn and memorable. The aliens too are well
done. In addition, the novel manages to take a bunch of SF ideas that
you would swear wouldn't work and makes them work: mankind on trial,
flying sauces full of aliens that want to make humans into dinner,
etc. It's a wonderful book, and probably Heinlein's last truly great
book (with the possible exception of that diamond in the rough, The
Moon Is a Harsh Mistress).
The Past Through Tomorrow
This is a collection of the Heinlein future histories, though one
minor story ("Let There Be Light") is not included, and at least one
story that doesn't seem to fit with the others ("We Also Walk Dogs")
is. The collection contains a number of good short works: "The Green
Hills of Earth," "The Man Who Sold the Moon," "Requium," "Logic of
Empire," and "The Menace from Earth." It also contains one good novel:
Methuselah's Children, as well as a minor novel (If This Goes On...)
and some minor stories. A few of the stories are below
average--"Searchlight," "Life-Line," "Blowups Happen"--but even these
are fun to read.
The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters is one of the better alien invasion stories. It is
certainly one of the most chilling stories of its type. Alien "slugs"
land on earth. They attach themselves to humans, taking them over,
such that in most ways the humans act normal but are really thoroughly
controlled. A nice touch here is that Heinlein has his main character
fall under the control of the slugs for a short while, so that you see
what it is like from the point of view of the controlled. Effective,
chilling, and upsetting, it is a good, memorable novel. (Side note:
this time through, I read the "complete novel"--that is, Heinlein
without the benefit of the editors. Most of the stuff added (or,
looked at the other way, that the editor had removed) really adds
nothing to the novel. For example, in scene one of the original, the
hero wakes up and heads off to work. In the restored novel, he wakes
up, finds that he is in bed with a woman whose name he doesn't
remember, then heads off to work. Really, it's no big loss.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the only really good, really
satisfying book that Heinlein wrote after 1960. All of his other books
after Have Space Suit--Will Travel, even those that I rather like,
leave me with a "Yeah, but..." feeling: that is, even the good ones
leave you with the feeling that they could have been much better, if
only Heinlein could write as well as he did in the forties and
fifties, if he only he had an editor, and so forth. This is not true
with The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Oh, it has a little bit of flab,
but not much. It avoids or minimizes most of the flaws of post-1960
Heinlein. The lectures are kept at a minimum and seem to be tied to
the plot, rather than long sidetracks with the author up on a soap
box. It is not obsessed with sex, like many other Heinlein books of
the period. (In so many of his other post-1960 books, Heinlein comes
off as an adolescent boy who has just discovered that he can get away
with talking about sex and therefore does so at every opportunity.)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress has many things going for it. The plot is
good and fast moving. The details of the society are interesting, as
are the details of the revolution. And Mike remains one of the best
sentient computers ever done. All in all, one of his best, just below
the level of Double Star, Citizen of the Galaxy, and Have
Spacesuit--Will Travel.
The Door Into Summer
Nobody has a ever done a better job with time-travel-paradox stories
than Robert Heinlein. He excelled at the loop-within-loop story, in
which the protagonist travels in time to help himself somehow. The
ultimate example of this was "All You Zombies," in which every
character in the story is the same person, and he's also his own
mother and father. "By His Bootstraps," another member of this
sub-genre, is one of Heinlein's best novellas. But perhaps the most
satisfying of the trio of time travel paradox stories that Heinlein
wrote is The Door Into Summer. The main character,
inventor-extrardinaire, goes into cryogenic sleep in 1970 to be
awakened in 2000. There, he finds signs of inventions of his that he
had not finished when he went into deep sleep. He also finds a
professor who has a somewhat functional time machine. He uses this to
go into the past, fix some problems in his own life (and save his
cat), finish his inventions, and go back into cryogenic sleep.
The entire book is very clever, and filled with a number of marvelous
details about how things work and about the future society. I liked it
even more the second time around than I did years ago, when I first
read it.
Beyond This Horizon
Alexi Panshin considers Beyond This Horizon one of Heinlein's two best
books. I'm not sure why. While the book has some interesting points, the
writing is very clumsy. There are some places where the point of view
(which is mostly that of the main character) suddenly just switches over
to someone else for a paragraph or so, then switches back to the main
character. This is jarring, to say the least. The book also has far too
many lectures on genetics. Granted, this is an early novel, but
Methuselah's Children (from the same period) is much better, and even If
This Goes On is a tad less clumsy.
The books main strengths are in the society it sets up and the details
of that society. Heinlein does a good job of making a very different
society feel real.
Overall, however, this book is only average. Of all the Heinlein books
that I reread, it is the only one that was not near as good as I
remember.
Not Worth Rereading
Most Heinlein is worth reading at least once, since even bad Heinlein
usually moves along and has some interesting elements. Alexi Panshin
noted that Heinlein's laundry lists would probably make compelling
reading, though to be fair to Panshin he wrote that before I Will Fear
No Evil. However, there is a list of mediocre to bad Heinlein that
really doesn't seem worth rereading:
1. I Will Fear No Evil
Heinlein's worst, and one of the worst books by a major SF writer I've
ever read. (I used to think it was THE worst, but then I read Gods of
the Riverworld.) Dumb and overwritten. The only interesting part is
the newspaper headlines that start many of the chapters.
2. Farnham's Freehold
This one's not as bad as I Will Fear No Evil. Mostly, it's just sort
of so-so and rather dull.
3. Podkayne of Mars
The worst written of the Heinlein juveniles. The only other
juvenile that's near this bad is:
4. Rocketship Galileo
Boys build a rocket in their back yard, go to the moon, and find a
secret Nazi base. Silly.
5. The Number of the Beast
I have real mixed feelings about this one. It was fun to read, once.
It has some fun parts and some bad parts. But in the end, the endless
chatter of the characters was so annoying that I don't think I can
bear going back to it again.
So-So, but I'll Probably Reread Someday
The following fall somewhere in the middle. They aren't great, but
they had something that makes me feel I'll probably go back to them
someday.
1. Time Enough for Love
There are really a couple of nice novellas buried in this one. If
Heinlein could have kept this to half it's current length, it would be
one of his better books. The chatter of the characters and the
obsession with sex get in the way of what could have been a much
better book.
2. Stranger in a Strange Land
The half-way point of this novel marks, for me, the real collapse of
Robert Heinlein. The first half of the book is tight and rather
interesting; the last half wanders away in unfocused fashion. The
ending is dumb.
3. Friday
Parts of this book read like the old Heinlein, returned to produce
good books once again. Other parts were as chatty as The Number of the
Beast. Overall, an above average book, but below average Heinlein.
4. Job, A Comedy of Justice
Too long for what it is, but it has some rather amusing parts.
5. The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
The first 2/3 of this book is a sequel to The Moon Is a Harsh
Mistress, and is pretty good. The last 1/3 is a sequel to The Number
of the Beast and is pretty bad. This book probably disapointed me more
than any other Heinlein, because I was so enthused by the first part.
However, I liked the first part of it enough that I'll probably reread
it some day.
Summary: Heinlein (in alphabetical order in each category)
His Best
Citizen of the Galaxy
The Door Into Summer
Double Star
Have Spacesuit--Will Travel
The Star Beast
Very Good
Between Planets
Methusalah's Children
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Puppet Masters
Red Planet
Starman Jones
Time for the Stars
Good
Farmer in the Sky
Orphans of the Sky
The Rolling Stones
Space Cadet
Starship Troopers
Tunnel in the Sky
Waldo
Average
Beyond This Horizon
Friday
If This Goes On
Job, A Comedy of Justice
The Sixth Column
Time Enough for Love
Below Average
The Cat Who Walks through Walls
Glory Road
The Number of the Beast
Stranger in a Strange Land
Blah
Farnham's Freehold
I Will Fear No Evil
Podkayne of Mars
Rocketship Galileo
Not read: I never did have the energy to read To Sail Beyond the
Sunset. Maybe someday.
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