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[edit] Robert Heinlein

One of the founding fathers of the hard SF tradition which sees both story and society as merely a matter of effective engineering, Heinlein started writing for pulp magazines, especially Astounding, in 1939 and was a dominant influence on the field for the next forty years.

His early stories--The Man who Sold the Moon and The Green Hills of Earth--are set in a "Future History" in which American society goes through radical changes and it is private enterprise that settles in space. Heinlein wrote a number of influential young adult SF books--Starman Jones, and Podakayne of Mars--which are generally freer in their handling of scientific themes than his books for adults. 

The right wing strain in his thinking produced a classic of McCarthyite paranoid fiction The Puppet Masters, in which the unwary are possessed by alien slugs. He achieved his major fame, not to say notoriety, with two books of the early 1960s--Starship Troopers, which, filmed satirically by Paul Verhoeven, started a whole sub-genre of militarist SF, while Stranger in a Strange Land with its free love and imaginary religions was a favourite of Charles Manson. Perhaps the best book of his later phase is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, one of SF's more intelligent retreads of 1776 in space; one of the best of his earlier books is Double Star, a flip tale of impersonation and political intrigue on Mars.

[edit] Bibliography

Series

• Heinlein's Future History
  • Methuselah's Children (1941)
  • The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
  • The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
  • Revolt in 2100 (1953)
  • Orphans of the Sky (1963)
  • The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
  • Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long (1973)

Novels

• Sixth Column (1941) (writing as Anson MacDonald) aka The Day After Tomorrow
• Rocket Ship Galileo (1947)
• Beyond This Horizon (1948) (writing as Anson MacDonald)
• Space Cadet (1948)
• Red Planet (1949)
• Farmer in the Sky (1950) aka Satellite Scout
• Between Planets (1951) aka Planets in Combat
• The Puppet Masters (1951)
• The Rolling Stones (1952) aka Tramp Space Ship
• Starman Jones (1953)
• The Star Beast (1954) aka Star Lummox
• Double Star (1955)
• Tunnel in the Sky (1955)
• Time for the Stars (1956)
• Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
• The Door into Summer (1957)
• Have Spacesuit - Will Travel (1958)
• Starship Troopers (1959) aka Starship Soldier
• Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
• Podkayne of Mars (1962)
• Glory Road (1963)
• Farnham's Freehold (1964)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
• Space Family Stone (1969)
• I Will Fear No Evil (1970)
• The Day After Tomorrow (1976)
• The Number of the Beast (1979)
• Friday (1982)
• Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners (1985)
• To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
• For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs (2004)

Chapbooks

• The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (1978)

Collections

• Waldo and Magic Inc. (1950)
• Expanded Universe (1951)
• Assignment in Eternity (1953)
• The Menace from Earth (1959)
• The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959) aka 6xH
• Lost Legacy (1960)
• Three by Heinlein (1965) aka A Heinlein Triad
• The Worlds of Robert A Heinlein (1966)
• The Best of Robert Heinlein (1973)
• Life Line (1980)
• The Fantasies of Robert Heinlein (1986)
• Ordeal in Space (1989)
• Requiem: And Tributes to the Grand Master (1992) (with Yoji Kondo)
• Revolt in 2100 / Methuselah's Children (omnibus) (1998)

Anthologies edited

• Tomorrow, the Stars (1951)

Non fiction

• Grumbles from the Grave (1989)
• Take Back Your Government!: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy to Work (1992) aka How to be a Politician
• Tramp Royale (1992) (with Virginia Heinlein)

Anthologies containing stories by Robert Heinlein

• Beyond Time and Space (1950)
• Best SF 2 (1956)
• A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 1 (1959)
• A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1959)
• Spectrum (1962)
• Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1963)
• The Best Science Fiction Stories 3 (1964)
• A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels (1964)
• Tales of Science Fiction (1964)
• Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction (1966)
• Tomorrow's Children (1966)
• The Future Makers (1968)
• 14 Great Tales of ESP (1969)
• The Others (1969)
• Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1 (1970)
• The Golden Road (1973)
• Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A (1973)
• Science Fiction - The Great Years: Volume Two (1974)
• Classic Science Fiction (1978)
• Classic Science Fiction (1978)
• The Great SF Stories One: 1939 (1979)
• A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
• Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Politics (1984)
• Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
• New Destinies, Vol. VII (1988)
• Between Time and Terror (1990)
• Shadows of Fear (1992)
• The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
• Space Movies: Classic Science Fiction Films (1995)
• The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998) aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
• The Unexplained: Stories of the Paranormal (1998)
• Bangs And Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World (1999)
• The SFWA Grand Masters (1999)
• Vintage Science Fiction (1999)

Short stories

• Lifeline (1939)
• Misfit (1939)
• And He Built a Crooked House (1940)
• Blowups Happen (1940)
• Magic, Inc. (1940) aka The Devil Makes the Law
• The Roads Must Roll (1940)
• Beyond Doubt (1941) (with Elma Wentz)
• By His Bootstraps (1941) (writing as Anson MacDonald)
• They (1941)
• Universe (1941)
• Goldfish Bowl (1942)
• The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942)
• Waldo (1942)
• Columbus Was a Dope (1947)
• Destination Moon (1947)
• The Green Hills of Earth (1947)
• It's Great to Be Back (1947)
• Water is for Washing (1947)
• Gulf (1949)
• The Long Watch (1949)
• Our Fair City (1949)
• The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
• The Year of the Jackpot (1952)
• The Year of the Jackpot (1952)
• Project Nightmare (1953)
• Sky Lift (1953)
• The Menace from Earth (1957)
• All You Zombies (1959)
• This I Believe (1989)