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Robert A. Heinlein: A Biographical Sketch
The Heinlein Society ^
| 1999
| Bill Patterson
Posted on 11/30/2002 8:58:37 PM PST by Sparta
Edited on 07/10/2004 1:42:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Robert Anson Heinlein was born on 7 July 1907, in Butler, Bates County, Missouri, the third son of Rex Ivar Heinlein and Bam Lyle Heinlein. At the time of Robert's birth, the family had been living with his maternal grandfather, Alva Lyle, M.D. A few months after Heinlein was born, his family moved from Butler to Kansas City, Missouri, where he was to grow up, but Heinlein vividly recalled the summers spent with Grandfather Lyle until his death in 1914.
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Here... look at this.
A Hymn Before Battle. It's the entire book, online, free of charge from the publishers.
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posted on
12/02/2002 6:33:20 PM PST
by
JenB
To: tomswiftjr
By the way, great nickname! I read every Tom Swift, Jr. book while I was growing up, and I have most of them in my collection today! :)
To: steve-b
Thank you. I couldn't remember the name even after I was corrected. My son bought the books and we started reading them about 7 months ago. I'm reading "The Number of the Beast" and I bought "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag" and "Farnham's Freehold" today.
To: Lurker
For me, it was
Starship Troopers.
Long live Lazarus Long! Oh, wait... That's redundant, isn't it...
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posted on
12/02/2002 6:42:55 PM PST
by
Oberon
To: VermiciousKnid
Heinlein Always wrote that Redheads were "Special!" Many of "us" Agree! Heinlein was one of the "True Prophets" of our Age! Doc
To: Quietly
I confess... the very first book I ever purchased for myself was a Ray Bradbury collection titled Golden Apples of the Sun. It was an Avon paperback, and it cost me 75 cents. From then on, there was no turning back.
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posted on
12/02/2002 6:48:46 PM PST
by
Oberon
To: JenB
Very cool! I have it bookmarked, thanks, and will read it!
To: Sparta; GatorGirl; tiki; maryz; *Catholic_list; afraidfortherepublic; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; ...
Thanks for the post. As a longtime RAH fan I enjoyed the read. As a Catholic I am "ping-ing" the FR Catholic Caucus to ask whether any others have been fans? If so, have they seen or read anything about an anti-Catholic bias in the works of RAH?
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posted on
12/02/2002 7:42:30 PM PST
by
narses
To: VermiciousKnid
I remember as a college sophmore reading several Heinlein novels and remarking that he was one SF author who did not lace his novels with sex. Then my mentor handed me Stranger in a Strange Land....
To: narses
The only direct reference to the Catholic Church that I can remember was in
Stranger In A Strange Land, where RAH (in the form of Jubal Harshaw) mentions that he prefers the quiet dignity of the Catholics to the raucousness of some other denominations.
He also gives a nod to the character of the Papal Nuncio, who appears as a delegate on the committee discussing the Man From Mars. I always thought RAH (again, as Jubal Harshaw) considered the Nuncio a wise character who knew the political ropes very well indeed.
Other than that, it always seemed to me that RAH didn't like organized religion in ANY form. Regards,
To: KC_for_Freedom
LOL...I bet THAT was quite a wake-up call!
Regards,
To: narses
Only read a little, but Heinlein is great!
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posted on
12/02/2002 8:30:36 PM PST
by
Dajjal
To: RosieCotton; SuziQ; John Farson
A ping for others who may be interested!
To: Oberon
Except for the early Mars stuff, which was beneath him, Bradury with his ordinary midwestern evenings, after supper, with crickets chirping, that suddenly turned weird, oh Lord. That is the stuff of dreams, or nightmares. Bradbury is truly a class by himself, and has no equal.
I mean that literally, no pun intended. There is no genre that Ray Bradbury fits in. There's nothing "Bradburyan." He had a mind so unique that no one can imposturate it. It's impossible to be inspired by Bradbury to write "Bradburyan" fiction. There are few writers that can't be impersonated, because everything he writes is so unique, but so uniquely him. Ray Bradbury is one.
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posted on
12/02/2002 10:24:57 PM PST
by
Quietly
To: dhuffman@awod.com
I'm trying to illustrate to you the trivial quality of your observations.
And your observations are astute? HA!
All you've done is repeatedly make the same inane remark and brag.
To: Fabozz
>>Larry Niven (an SF giant in his own right).
I heartily recommend both Niven's work and the Niven & Pournelle collaborations. Both were friends of Heinlein. "The Mote in God's Eye" is a fabulous first contact novel.
To: JenB
"Sluggy Freelance" Just started looking at it. I can see how it could be addictive. Just a touch weird, but entertainingly so.
To: narses
One of his brothers was my parish priest. He was very gifted too.
To: VermiciousKnid
No, I never met RAH, but I certainly heard about him while growing up. I was born and raised in Philly, but RAH had already left there and headed to CA. My mom read all of his books. However, I am not a big sci-fi fan. Also, apparently I type faster than I think; my grandfather was a cousin, not a brother, of RAH. So, that would make me a 1st cousin, twice removed (?) of RAH.
To: CapandBall
Thanks
On this trip I brought Future Histories, and I bought Expanded Universe and Requiem. With all that credit at Ace, I'm going to have to keep checking, the collection is still way shy of complete :)
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posted on
12/03/2002 10:00:19 AM PST
by
m1911
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