Robert A. Heinlein: A Biographical Sketch

The Heinlein Society ^ | 1999 | Bill Patterson

[Sparta]

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.

[bribriagain]

Your posts have always been spot-on. You are permitted the occasional gaff. IMHO.

[VermiciousKnid]

If I am not mistaken, "Methuselah's Children" appears in the compilation book The Past Through Tomorrow, which absolutely should be read before attempting Time Enough For Love.

Regards,

[Jonah Hex]

Damn--I don't know how I am going to make it 'til the NEXT installment of Ringo's series comes out!!!!

I've just started reading the third volume. (No spoilers, please!) Did Ringo leave room for a fourth novel, or did he tie up all the Posleen loose ends?

Thanks!

[Wonder Warthog]

"I've just started reading the third volume. (No spoilers, please!) Did Ringo leave room for a fourth novel, or did he tie up all the Posleen loose ends?"

He appears to have left room for a fifth and sixth. If anything, he ADDED some loose ends. I don't see how he can possibly wrap it up in just four. AARRGGGHH!!!!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Thanks for the post!

And a ping-a-roonie to the biggest Heinlein fan I know...

[Vidalia]

Gracias.

Many may have not read "Stranger", but will be able to relate if their world included the "drop and cover" exercises of the later 50s.

Back then you could walk for blocks and blocks in your populated neighborhood to the right tackle's house to plan the weekend or bike to the half-back's house a good three miles away to visit for the afternoon without worrying that you would be accosted, maybe killed for your wallet or bike.

No longer, for the personal standards relating to right and wrong and common sense of those fathers and mothers who served in any sense for the purposes of winning the second world war have since vanished, except for those of us who are now the sons and daughters who subscribed to those ideals then and now.

America is not lost, but is sure has been bastardized by those who have crossed borders for purposed other than becoming a citizen.

Lately, most have come here not to contribute but to steal from the generations before who busted ass in menial jobs, and died in wars to save their families from the same Fascist, Communist, Nazi or other local countrywide hell they put their lives on the line for.

Not quite like crossing a weak running Rio Grande to steal from others, is it...?

[Old Professer]

I had the opportunity to spend two months on the boat with them when he and Ginny visited Antarctica. They both regularly kicked my ass in Scrabble. They were very active in the cause of getting more people to donate blood on a monthly basis much as they do in New Zealand.

Now there's a basis for a mortality study.

[Shooter 2.5]

I have a list of his books and it appears to be a novel. I'll have to find out more about it.

[Jonah Hex]

OK, thanks!

[alfa6]

"An honest politican is one who stays bought"

That was Jubal Harshaw refering to Joe Douglas in Stranger in a Strange Land.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[VermiciousKnid]

"Methuselah's Children" definitely appears in The Past Through Tomorrow, along with "The Green Hills of Earth," "Time Line" and others.

I suggest you get this book in order to have the Future History series in its entirety.

Happy reading!

[TheLion]

"Farnhams Freehold"...is not in my inventory, nor have I read it. I do have more books than a number of websites I have visited.

"I read it at the tender age of 10"....boy, you started early. I started when I was 11...lol

[Shooter 2.5]

Thanks. I'll see about getting it as quick as I can. My local BookStop has a good collection.

[Britton J Wingfield]

ping in case you haven't been pinged yet. TANSTAAFL!

[Britton J Wingfield]

It was his opinion that a person should have some degree of education in order to vote. I do not recall exactly where I read this but I will try to find the cite and pass it on to you.

He proposed a system wherein a voter would have to put up an ounce of gold to cast his vote. If he could then solve a simple quadratric equation, he would get his gold back and cast his vote. If he failed, he got neither.

[Britton J Wingfield]

I wish I could remember who wrote it, and the name of it, but I thought it was an excellent story.

It was written by Larry Niven, but I cannot remember the title. He even got Heinlein's permission before writing the story.

[Britton J Wingfield]

See the above post :)

[CapandBall]

author bump

[Fabozz]

The story you're thinking of is "The Return of William Proxmire" by Larry Niven (an SF giant in his own right). First printed in What Might Have Been? Volume I: Alternate Empires (Gregory Benford & Martin H. Greenberg eds., Bantam Spectra, 1989). Also available in the Requiem anthology (Tor, 1992). Nominated for the 1990 Best Short Story Hugo.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Having been ping-a-roonied by my husband (in public, no less), I must thank him for a most enjoyable read.

Since I was six years old, and picked up The Rolling Stones after exhausting the library's mythology, I have been an unabashed, unashamed Heinleinian. Reading Heinlein from that tender age onward was probably the major intellectual influence in my life, and helped shape the woman I am today, opinions and all. I never had a chance to meet him, would that I had; and, like an earlier poster, I wept for hours the day he died. I was getting out of a car at Newark Airport, headed back to San Antonio, when I heard of his death on the 5pm national radio news. I took a seat in the back of the plane and cried all the way home.

To quote Spider Robinson, another Heinleinian, "Rah, rah, RAH!"