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Encountering the Heinleins by Michael Cassutt

Posted on August 12, 2011 by The Heinlein Society

I heard a male voice on the line. “Is this Michael Cassutt?” “Yes.” “This is Robert Heinlein.” Heinlein readers can easily imagine my stunned reaction. Continue reading →

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Review of the Heinlein Biography: Learning Curve

Posted on August 12, 2011 by The Heinlein Society

Hugo-nominated, winner of the Locus award, biography of Robert Heinlein by William H. Patterson, Jr. Review of Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Vol. 1: Learning Curve: 1907-1948 by Robert James, Ph.D. Continue reading →

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This I Believe

Posted on August 12, 2011 by The Heinlein Society

“THIS I BELIEVE” by Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein wrote these words in 1952 and delivered them to a national radio audience in a broadcast interview by Edward R. Murrow. His wife, Virginia Heinlein, read them when she accepted … Continue reading →

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Virginia Heinlein: A Biography

Posted on August 10, 2011 by The Heinlein Society

A biography of Virginia Gerstenfeld Heinlein, wife of Robert Heinlein, founder of the Heinlein Society by Robert James, Ph.D. Continue reading →

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Robert A. Heinlein: A Biography

Posted on August 10, 2011 by The Heinlein Society

A brief biography of Robert A. Heinlein by William H. Patterson, Jr., author of the Locus Award-winning, Hugo-nominated biography of Heinlein: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve Continue reading →

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How I first encountered Heinlein…

Posted on November 16, 2010 by The Heinlein Society

How I first encountered Heinlein… by David Wright, Sr. Continue reading →

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Heinlein History: Kansas City, Missouri

Posted on April 19, 2004 by Deb Houdek Rule

Heinlein History: Kansas City, Missouri around the time the Heinlein family lived there… ©2000 Deb Houdek Rule Robert A. Heinlein was born in 1907 in Butler, Missouri. A few years later the family moved to Kansas City where he grew … Continue reading →

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The Lost Manuals

Posted on March 31, 2004 by The Heinlein Society

The Lost Manuals by J. Neil Schulman: Sooner or later we all imagine there’s a set of technical manuals our parents were supposed to give us at birth with instructions on How Life Works. Look no further: you’ll find the closest thing to the Lost Manuals in the science fiction section: the author was Robert A. Heinlein. Continue reading →

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Robert Heinlein: Murder Suspect

Posted on March 30, 2004 by Deb Houdek Rule

In his 1942 novel Rocket to the Morgue, Anthony Boucher captured this moment in science fiction history and preserved it by using his friends and fellow members of the Mañana Literary Society as the suspects in a murder mystery. Continue reading →

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All You Zombies: Reviewed by David Wright

Posted on March 28, 2004 by The Heinlein Society

“All You Zombies” by Robert A. Heinlein Reviewed by David Wright ©2004 This short time travel story of Heinlein’s appeared some 18 years later than “By His Bootstraps” with which it bears much in common. It is considered by many … Continue reading →

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