Robert Heinlein at 100: How the Science Fiction Master Created the Template for Our Looser, Hipper, More Pluralist WorldTHE SCIENCE FICTION writer Robert Heinlein's 100th birthday is July 7. Despite his visions of...By DohertyBrian
How to Be a Politiciandoi:10.1002/ncr.4110470505Robert A. HeinleinJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.National Civic Review
I mean, you can see that in their movies and books. The number of books I’ve thrown against the wall because “this is not how any of this works” including the book where “because of global warming” Kansas was underwater but London wasn’t. Or the one where Space colonies were g...
(On the subject of books that contain wise and wordy characters who entirely agree with the author, see also Robert Heinlein, whose books I loved as a kid. In my memory,Time Enough For Loveiscompletely awesome. So I'm not going to make the mistake of trying to read it again now. For...
You want to know why people my age and younger write without hope? That’s why.” This man thanked me for bringing that to his attention. He was genuine, not sarcastic. He simply did not know how the younger half lived. And really, I think that’s what it boils down to. It’s ...
we never made it back that way during business hours to go inside but we did leave our books (Mr Magpie always laughs at me because I can’t help but tidy up the book boxes a bit)… being within walking distance ofColonial Williamsburggave us several opportunities to stroll around looking...
It also never occurs to them that you don’t realize they’re all staring at you, because you’re trying to figure out just why your character wants you to write him doing THAT. So there are certain words that make me stop and look and go “um…. did I put my underpants on my ...
But the idea of Chinese as ‘Blue Ants’ was expressed in the following books, all mainstream and respectable at the time: The Blue Ants: 600 million Chinese under the Red Flag by Robert Guillain, 1957. The Blue Ants. The first authentic account of the Russian-Chinese War of 1970 by ...
You’ll become more human.As Robert Heinlein famously put it: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders...
are. Go to NASA, go to any space agency or space startup in the world, and you'll find that at least half the nerds in any given room would not be standing there without the inspiration of Gene Roddenberry, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein or Isaac ...