robert heinlein

Proof that RAH really did have a crystal ball? Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like Sparling - Sperling?:p

Stumbled across this today - thought it may interest anyone in a position to go! Robert A. Heinlein Centennial - Kansas City 2007 Good city to choose, I thought!:p

Just thought these were fun if anyone is interested... http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/The-Number-of-the-Beast-92670.html http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/Have-Spacesuit---Will-Travel-218272.html...

Thought this might be a good place for some feedback regarding how discussion is going, or positive or negative feedback on what we get out of reading a work together. Do we want to continue? Is there value in this 'Reading Group' thing? Suggestions for ways to improve for next time? I wish...

Well, now that we've kicked off our discussion regarding Puppet Masters, it is probably a good time to firmly select TCWWTW as our next one. The poll has been up for a while now, and it seems almost impossible for one of the others to kick TCWWTW off first place. So if you want to participate...

Well - what do you think of Woody? Would you hang on his every word, or shoot him on sight? Vote now - but please back it up with a comment about your choice!:)

Hey guys...just finished reading Puppet Masters. I figure it will be a while before we are all ready, but that I would set up this thread in the mean time. I figure if we each post in here as we finish, we'll know when to kick off. We can keep our discussion contained here, in one thread. It...

Well here goes. I see a poll can now hold ten items, but I don't have enough books to fill it anyway (I'm going to regret this when I get to a bookshop) I've disregarded "Job; a comedy of manners" due to a prerecoded rejection vote, And have not considered shorts, for the instant. Still, this...

I have been reading and re-reading Heinlein since I first picked up one of his books. Every time I read one of his books I glean something new from it. I've never been on a site like this before, and have only been here a week...but I'm finding discussing aspects of his books with other people...

Some people have just too much time!:p lego/gaydeceiver/

I'm sure this has been done to death...but I just spent 3 hours looking for a specific Heinlein quote (unsuccessfully)...and ran across so many beauties in the process. There are soooo many good ones, I thought it might be fun to hear some of people's favourites. I've got to rule out the...

I've got a 10 year old daughter. I am trying to decide when and how to introduce her to Heinlein. She is already pubescent (I know...shocking), and an advanced reader, and developmentally seems to be way ahead of her age. I don't want anything too meaty too early to turn her off, but I want...

My name is Blake and I am a 21 year old college student in Philadelphia. I love to read books for pleasure, however i am not an avid science fiction reader. Putting this aside, i decided to read Stranger in a Strange Land, the Uncut edition and i must say that it is one of my favorite books i...

Quick question: who edited The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (TOR 1999 / 2002), and could you perhaps provide me with the page numbers for "All You Zombies" in this collection? I'm writing a paper on time-travel, and I need this for the bibliography, and I don't have the book on me at the...

I was reading Tunnel to the Sky the other day and it seemed to me that halfway through the book it became almost like another novel---when the newcomer came to challenge Rod's leadership and the campfire discussions ended up being about government in general etc. Does anyone else feel this way...

STRANGERS AND FRONTIERS During my early and middle childhood(3-12) and my early and middle adolescence(13-17) Robert Heinlein was working on his book Stranger in a Strange Land. In June 1961 it was finally published. It is arguably the most famous science fiction book ever written and the...

This is also, as noted on another thread, the centennial of Heinlein's birth. Perhaps it wouldn't be amiss to have some sort of recognition of that on the Chronicles? Like him (or his work) or not, he helped bring American sf out of the pulp magazine gutter it had fallen into during the 20s and...

this is the third one of his i've treid, and i'm really enjoying it. rather than straight sci-fi, this seems more fantasy driven, although the action is fast paced, i'm not fining it abrasive. although i would prefer a little more characterisation.

So I finally got a small amount of freetime before bed and so read Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers. The first thing that strikes me is the light-reading aspect of it - most books I'm so engrossed in that I don't notice the world around me, and can be very annoyed when it does intrude...

I've picked up a batch of old sci-fi, as i've mentioned elsewhere, and there is quite a bit of heinlein in it. i've started with the puppet masters, but am finding the style very brusque and unsettling with a pace that is an absolute gallop. is this a feature of his writing in general? or just a...