Science Fiction Grandmaster
I started reading Robert Heinlein as a freshman in high school. His stories were the first science fiction that I read. The books were juvenile science fiction, but they got me hooked. I read Space Cadet. I watched the series on TV when I was seven or eight.
I did not see the libertarian themes when I first read his stories. When I discovered libertarian ideas, I found he had been there all along, particularly with The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
One of my favorite stories about Heinlein is his relationship with Philip K. Dick. Dick and Heinlein were worlds apart on their political views. When Dick was down and out, Heinlein gave him a typewriter. Dick was one of Heinlein's great admirers. I like them both.
Three reasons to love Robert Heinlein
His stories combine ideas and action. They are usually great fun to read, and still help you think about ideas on liberty, politics, living with other people, love and sex. He was recognized as a Science Fiction Grandmaster.
I discovered in putting this lens together, that he had the idea of Pay It Forward. Help someone and ask them to pass along help to others. Look at the Heinlein Society.
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Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 ? May 8, 1988) was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers",WonderCon 2008 :: Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Blood Drive he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He wa...
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Tom Corbett Space Cadet
Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett ? Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s.
The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the elite Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classrooms and bunkroom, aboard their training ship the rocket cruiser Polaris, and on alien worlds, both within our solar system and in orbit around nearby stars.
The Tom Corbett universe partook of pseudo-science, not equal to the standards of accuracy set by John W. Campbell in the pages of Astounding. And yet, by the standards of the day, it was much more accurate than most media science fiction. Mars was a desert, Venus a jungle, and the asteroids a haunt of space pirates, but at least planets circled suns and there was no air in space. Contrast this with The Twilight Zone, years later, where people could live on asteroids wearing ordinary clothes, or Lost in Space, years after that, where a spaceship could be passing "Jupiter and Andromeda" at the same time. Before Category: Star Trek - : The Original Series|Star Trek, Tom Corbett ? Space Cadet was the most scientifically accurate series on television, in part due to official science advisor Willy Ley, and later due to Frankie Thomas. Thomas read up on science and everyone on the set turned to him for advice on matters scientific.
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I prefer his earlier books; by the later ones he allowed detailed and complex relationships to overwhelm the story. I re-read Glory Road about once a year. I too have found his political views quite refreshing. Posted May 10, 2008 |
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