Born March 21, 1936—Margaret Mahy. New Zealand author of over a hundred children’s and YA books, some with a strong supernatural bent. She won the Carnegie Medal twice for two of her fantasy novels,The Hauntingand forThe Changeover, something only seven authors have done in total. (Died...
Robert A. Heinlein was a prolific American writer considered to be one of the most literary and sophisticated of science-fiction writers. He did much to develop the genre. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929 and serving in the navy for f
In 1955, Robert Heinlein began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate science fiction book about two young lovers driven apart by pride, power and the vastness of interstellar time and space, only to set it aside to focus on other sci-fi novels. The detailed outline and notes Hei...
” Robert Heinlein ” Oil on Panel © 2009 Donato Giancola Recently I put together a reading list of Robert Heinlein’s books for one of the other contributors to SFSN. He didn’t realize that many were thematically related, and that there was a “best” order in which to read them, ...
Memory Alphanotes that “While the episode was in production, Gene Roddenberry noticed that the story was similar to Robert Heinlein’s novel,The Rolling Stones, which featured the ‘Martian Flat Cats’. Too late, he called Heinlein to apologize and avoid a possible lawsuit. Heinlein was very ...
The Rolling Stones is one of Heinlein’s most lighthearted novels. It was written primarily for young adults, but it’s a good read at any age. The book is about a middle class family, living on the moon as the story begins, in a time when middle class families can buy spaceships abo...
-Robert’s art, Substack writings, and novels -Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism –Robert’s case for Theosophy -Robert’s mystical experience at June Lake -contrasting Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, in their approach to theurgy, aesthetics and the natural world -can ugly things be beautiful or ...
By 1942 – when he stopped writing to do his World War Two service as an engineer at the Naval Air Experimental Station, Philadelphia – Heinlein had already published almost thirty stories, including three novels which would only later be released in book form. Moreover, it had soon been ma...
Robert Heinlein Robert La Follette Robert Lindsay Robert Parker Robert Putnam Robert Reich Robin Hanson Robin Williams Rodney Alan Greenblat Rodrigo Herhaus de Campos Roger Devlin Roger Scruton Romain d'Aspremont Roman Bernard Roman Empire Ron DeSantis Ron Paul Ron Unz Ronal...
Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order This is the one that got Heinlein in trouble with creative-writing teachers. Perhaps a more appropriate wording would have been, "Don't tinker endlessly with your story." You can spend forever modifying, revising, and polis...