The nominating period for Board members for the 2022 election will begin 1 May 2022 and close 22 May 2022. The Board has three (3) seats up for election with three sitting Board members, Beatrice Kondo, Joel S. Davis, and Ken Walters agreeing to be nominated for re-election. You may nominate any THS member in…
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David Gerrold Wins 2022 Robert A. Heinlein Award and will attend Balticon 56. David Gerrold, novelist and screenwriter, is the 2022 winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award and will attend Balticon 56, May 27-30, 2022. The award is bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration…
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January 1, 2022 Announcing our eleventh annual scholarship essay contest for the 2022 – 2023 academic year. This year we will be awarding four $4,000 scholarships to undergraduate students of accredited 4-year colleges and universities. The “Virginia Heinlein Memorial Scholarship” is dedicated to a female candidate majoring in engineering, math, or biological or physical sciences. The…
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Links Heinlein Sites: Read more about the first Grand Master of Science Fiction on the sites reached by the links below. Please remember that the contents of these links are the responsibility of their owners and represent the opinions and attitudes of the owners and not necessarily those of the Heinlein Society. Site RAH:…
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Members of The Heinlein Society: As a volunteer organization, we attempt to provide good customer service with 21st-Century tools via the internet at the lowest cost possible so most of your membership dues may go to our charitable programs. Sometimes, things change and we need to react and it causes a little more work for…
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We’re inviting THS members to join our Discord server and spend some time with us the evening of our party at WorldCon. President JT makes no promises about how much interaction with people at the physical party there will be (we’ll try), but there’s no reason people can’t hang out in the DisCon3 channel at…
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The recent redesign of The Heinlein Journal was chosen as one of 6 winners in the Editorial category of Communication Arts’ 62nd annual design competition, the most exclusive major design competition in the world. “This redesign matches the quality of the publication with the stature of its authors and their scholarship,” said Managing Editor and Designer Mark Bult. “We’ve…
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To all Members or Prospective Members: At the moment, “guest” functionality is disabled on our website store “Cart” system. If you are a member that previously has just had a PayPal ‘subscription’ (not through the website payment cart system) you may never have had an account on the website. If you are new to us,…
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The 2021 Annual Meeting Report is available for posterity. It is a modified version of the slides below. The 2021 Annual Meeting Slides are available via the link. Some information will be announced first at the Annual Meeting. The THS Bylaws 2021 Proposed Changes may be found at the hyperlink. The Heinlein Society 2020 Annual…
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The below link is to the You Tube video of the 2020 Balticon virtual book discussion of The Pursuit of The Pankera and how it differs from The Number of The Beast. Panelists include John Tilden – President of The Heinlein Society, Steve Wilson – Author and Don Sakers – Author. https://youtu.be/bZtPu_6LrGY
Dr. Beatrice Kondo of Johns Hopkins University was recently interviewed for a Writers and Illustrators of the Future Podcast discussing Biotechnology and Science Fiction. What you may not know is that Beatrice met Robert Heinlein at a young age through her father, noted astrophysicist and science fiction author, Dr. Yoji Kondo. Beatrice has been a…
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Recently a friend asked me to explain the difference between The Heinlein Society (THS) and The Heinlein Prize Trust (HPT). That’s really an interesting question. Both were founded by Virginia Heinlein, but that’s where the similarities end. The Heinlein Society is a charity, and our only source of income is through memberships and donations. We…
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Dear Members: We have revised our overall website presence. To better serve our membership, since they are the overwhelming number of Heinlein Journal readers, we have merged the heinleinjournal.com website’s content into heinleinsociety.org. When we publish our next issue, you will be able to use an appropriate coupon code as a Regular or Lifetime member to receive new issues, or…
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If you were unable to attend our 2020 Annual Meeting, please see the formal report linked at 2020_Annual_Report containing the substance of what was presented during the meeting. Thank you to all who attended WORLDWIDE! The THS 2019 Annual Meeting Minutes were accepted as submitted during the meeting.
On August 1st, 2020, The Heinlein Society celebrates our 20th anniversary. Our founding members; Virginia Heinlein, Bill Patterson, Art Dula and three others started our long journey on that date. So far, we have shipped almost 30,000 Heinlein / SF books to active military personnel and veterans around the world. We have sponsored blood drives…
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Scholarship Winners by Mike Sheffield This year, as expected, we received a record number of scholarship applications – 365. Among these we had 20 international applicants, more than in any previous year. They came from all around the globe: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greece, Ghana, Haiti, India, Israel, Kazakhstan, Morocco and India. We also…
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“The only constant in life is change”-Heraclitus. Our longest-serving Director, Heinlein-Award winning writer Joe Haldeman, has resigned from our Board of Directors. Joe has been willing to lend his name and face to our cause from the beginning of the Heinlein Society. With his business and personal commitments he didn’t have a lot of…
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We just kicked off an email switch for the Society. If all goes well, no one should see any bounces or ‘delayed sending’ messages for any of the email addresses listed on our website. If you get a delayed message, don’t worry. If you get a bounce/reject message please try again. It can take 48…
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“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 on his behalf NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal on October 6, 1988, awarded him posthumously.…
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Heinlein Society President, John Tilden (pictured above), represented THS at the FarPoint Convention in Baltimore, Maryland on February 22, 2020. Mr. Tilden was joined by Betsy Childs (pictured above), a new THS Member and THS Member Steven Wilson. Even though FarPoint is a Star Trek focused Con, there are connections. Several Star Trek episodes were…
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At its Organizational meeting held September 9, 2019, the Board of Directors elected a new slate of Officers that also serve as the Executive Commitee of the Heinlein Society: John Tilden, President & Chairman of the Board C. Herbert Gilliland, Vice-President/Secretary Beatrice Kondo, Treasurer. The Executive Committee may be reached via the email address ,…
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September 8, 2019– The Heinlein Society (a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to “Paying Forward” the legacy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein) today announced the re-launch of The Heinlein Journal, formerly edited by Founding Editor and Heinlein Scholar, William H. Patterson, Jr. The first re-launch issue (Volume 2, Issue 1) is free to all, as is…
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The Heinlein Society is running its Annual Meeting as a teleconference. We will be discussing results of our 2019 work, announce the results of our elections, and briefly talk about our plans for the 2020 year, which officially starts for us September 1st. While all members are invited to participate, if any votes are taken…
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The minutes for the 2018 Annual Meeting of The Heinlein Society are linked below. Please review so you can offer corrections/additions/deletions at the Annual General Meeting on September 8th, 2019 at 1 p.m. PDT, if necessary, or be able to vote knowledgeably they be accepted as submitted. THS Annual Meeting 2018 Minutes_FINAL
The slides that will be presented during the Annual Meeting are available for viewing or download here. If you intend to print them, you may want to disable printing of the background if possible in your .pdf viewer. (Updated September 14, 2019 to reflect election results which were announced at the meeting.) 2019 Annual Meeting…
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