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    RAH, like Lazarus Long, can never die...  He's merely stopped
    writing.

    Please post any tributes that appear on the internet groups.

	Mike

    Yes it's a shame, I suppose, but he was old, had written about 7
    books too many for my taste and had had a good life.
    
    Andy

from a mailing list:
     
>  For those who haven't heard yet, it was just announced that Robert Heinlein
>  died Saturday in his sleep.

    at least it was peaceful...
    
    

    RE .2
    
    Yes, I suppose that we all do die.  But we must all remember the
    contributions that RAH made to the SF community.  His name is spoken
    in the same breath with Clarke and Asimov when talking about the
    greats of SF.   As to your supposition that he has written about
    seven too many books, to which seven do you refer?  I cannot think
    of a single RAH book that _I_ could do without!  His death marks
    the passing of an era in SF.  It should not be marked with a "he
    was old, it was his time" attitude.
    

             HEINLEIN HELPED SCI-FI (sic) EXPLORE LITERARY REALM
                               by Mei-Mei Chan
    
    The science fiction community is mourning the loss of a grand master.
    
    Robert A. Heinlein, the visionary who helped lift the genre from
    lowly pulp-magazine status to respectability, died Sunday in his
    sleep in Carmel, CA. He was 80.
    
    Heinlein, famed for "Stranger in a Strange Land," "invented science
    fiction as we know it, says former STAR TREK writer David Gerrold.
    
    With a talent for detailing everyday life as well as futuristic
    hardware, Heinlein "was the great beacon light for all of us" during
    his peak in the `40s and `50s says author Harlan Ellison. More than
    40 million copies of Heinlein's books are in print.
    
    "He humanized science fiction so it became much fuller and richer,"
    says Ray Bradbury. "Bob was among the first to do real human beings
    so we could care about them."
    
    "He created a new and higher standard of science fiction which the
    rest of us aimed for," says Isaac Asimov. "He pulled us upward."
    
    "He was the first writer to really talk about space as a do-able,"
    adds Gerrold. "He's the man who made us conscious that we could
    go to the moon." Heinlein's "Red Planet" had us colonizing Mars.
    
    Amomg Heinlein's proudest achievements: serving as a guest commentator
    along with Walter Cronkite during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
    
    Born in Butler, MO, Heinlein graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy.
    and earned graduate degrees in physics and math. During World War
    II, he worked at the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia.
    
    Around that time, Heinlein was "a bright pink left liberal" says
    fellow writer L. Sprague de Camp. Heinlein's 1961 best-seller "Stranger
    in a Strage Land" -- about an alien confronting Earth customs and
    culture -- became something of a hippie bible. One fan: mass murderer
    Charles Manson.
    
    After a trip to Russia, Heinlein became an arch conservative. Two
    months ago, he designated himself an unofficial campaign manager
    to elect Jeane Kilpatrick for president, says Gerrold.
    
    Heinlein, who is survived by his wife Virginia, had suffered heart
    ailments and emphysema for the past decade. After surgery in the
    late `70s which required multiple transfusions, he became an advocate 
    for donating blood.
    
    "He would go to conventions and say, "if you want an autograph,
    that's one pint of blood," says Gerrold.
    
    Heinlein's final book, "To Sail Beyond the Sunset," comes out in
    paperback this month.
    
    "I think what has intrigued people about his later books was his
    theme that death is not permanent," says Gerrold. "I think he was
    a man who wanted to live a lot longer than 80 years." 
    

    
    I, too, am saddened by Heinlein's passing; I don't think the last 7
    would've been better left unwritten, with the possible exception of
    "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls", though none of the last few was up
    to his earlier standards. They all afforded some entertainment, if only
    for the pleasure of revisiting the old familiar faces.  The comment 
    in the USA Today article about his pre-occupation with death is well
    taken. 
    
>  His death marks the passing of an era in SF.  It should not be marked 
>  with a "he was old, it was his time" attitude.

    I disagree with this.  There is nothing tragic in the death of someone
    over 80 years old, who had lived a full and productive life.  The
    attitude that death is unnatural is one of the unhealthier aspects
    of our current society.  We mourn our own loss, not his (remember
    the closing scene of the "Skin of Evil" episode of Star Trek:TNG?
    
    Beverly
    

    I heard the news on the radio as I was waking up this morning. 
    The passing of RAH has effected me more than I thought it would.
    I suddenly realize how important he was to my everyday life.  RAH
    taught me to read, for pleasure and for learning, for this I shall
    remain eternally grateful.
    
    That "Writer Fellow" shall be missed.  Rest in Peace.

    
    		To _Starship Troopers_, _Space Cadet_, _Have Spacesuit
    	Will Travel_ and _Rocket Ship Galileo_ I owe my interest in
    	science fiction. It's funny, RAH is one of those who you can't
    	really conceive of as dead, similar to Tolkein, and Wells, and
    	the other greats. Why is some of the magic gone when I try to
    	read his old books now? 
    
    	To RAH I bid farewell, knowing that there will be countless
    	others who will rejoice in his fiction.
    
    						sam

    "Have Space Suit--Will Travel" was the first SF novel I read 25 years
    ago.  I still remember it.  I truly hope Heinlein has found his
    "Door into Summer".  I will miss his future words.

    Heinlein is the author who really introduced me to science fiction
    when I was a kid. I ate up everything of his I could lay my hands
    on. I found his more recent novels disappointing, at least as measured
    against the standards of his earlier work.
    
    I can't really accept the observation that "it was his (or anybody
    else's) time", or that "he lead a full life". I think that's a 
    subjective judgment that an individual makes for him or herself. Who
    am I to say that Heinlein, at 80, was ready to go? He may have felt
    ready and able to do more, and anything but prepared to die.
    
    I'll miss him, as will so many others, I'm sure, for one of the
    landmarks in my own life.
    
    - Richard

    re:.4
    
    �As to your supposition that he has written about seven too many
    books, to which seven do you refer?  I cannot think of a single
    RAH book that _I_ could do without!�
    
    Well, yes, of course, you have your opinion, but so does Andy have
    *his*. And I have mine, which is closer to Andy's than to yours.
    As for the last seven (or whatever) books, whether they were worth
    writing/publishing/reading/whatever has been debated endlessly,
    and this note is not the place to go through it all again. I'll
    just note that a number of folks that I know who are rabid RAH fans
    were disappointed by many of them.
    
    Actually, my opinion on RAH is more extreme than Andy's. I've made
    no attempt to hide the fact that I am most emphatically *not* a fan
    of RAH's work (I, for instance, cannot think of a single Heinlein
    novel that I *couldn't* do without). Personal opinion aside, I do
    recognize the impact he had on the field, and his passing is a major
    loss.
    
    --- jerry

    And so, another candle burns out and is gone.
    
    The world lies just a little darker.
    
    RIP RAH
    
    -Bob K.

       From the May 11, 1988 Wall Street Journal editorial
       page (without permission):

       _Future Markets_

       When Robert A. Heinlein, one of science fiction's
       grandmasters, died this week an astonishing 64 of his
       books were still in print.  An uncomprising
       individualist, Heinlein often celebrated the values
       of liberty and the free market in his work.  He never
       pretended to write great literature; the acclaim he
       coveted most was that of the general reader.  He once
       joked that "the acme of prose style is exemplified by
       that simple, graceful clause: 'Pay to the order
       of ...'"

    Sexist though he was thru most of his career (and which of his
    contemporaries wasn't, really?) I read everything he wrote up til
    "Stranger", which I couldn't quite choke down.  Too unapologetically
    preachy.  After that, I was cautious and selective and I, too, think
    his last books wouldn't make patches on the earlier ones for sheer
    chauvinistic "Damn we're good!" entertainment. 
    
    We'll never see his like again. 
    
    						=maggie

I never much cared for Heinlein's stories, but...

I started reading science fiction when I was 13, picking up a book
that was left lying in the school's cafeteria. It started out with
some kids launching a liquid-fueled(!) model rocket, but it blew
up. That's ALL I remembered about it, after 25 years.

Last year at Boskone I saw a book in the huckster's room with a 
vaguely familiar cover. I scanned the first chapter, and it was the
same book.

Rocketship Galileo.

So long, and thanks for all the fun.

    What follows is an excerpt from Herb Caen's column in the May 11 
  edition of THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE:
 
   "That was an amazing coincidence on the front pages yesterday --
    the spread on Nancy Reagan's professional stargazer, S.F.'s Joan
    Quigley-Wiggly, and the obituary of the great science fiction
    writer, Robert A. Heinlein, who died in Carmel at the age of 80.
    In his best-known book, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, published
    in 1961, Heinlein writes about the leader of the free world,
    Joseph E. Douglas, who bases all his decisions on advice his wife
    receives from her astrologer, a San Francisco woman named Becky
    Vesant.  As if that weren't close enough to the mark -- in fact,
    Joan Quigley lives VERY close to the Mark -- Heinlein describes
    the leader of the free world as 'a smiling nincompoop.'  Science
    fiction indeed."
 
    One hopes Heinlein thought of that and got a smile out of it.
 
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    "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?"

    
    Re:  .14 and .15
    
    In judging Heinlein's attitudes, etc. please remember that much
    of his early work was written for Boys Life, the national 
    magazine of the Boy Scouts of America.  (His characters
    sometimes acted like Boy Scouts, BECAUSE...)
    
    Like anything written for a large (entire U.S.) group, any
    "radical" ideas are likely to get the writing rejected.  And,
    for a group with a strong influence on growing children (Boy
    Scouts, school textbooks, etc.) the PARENTS' attitudes must
    also be carefully accounted for.  
    
    Heinlein wrote what he knew would be printed.  Personal Opinion:
    he was smart enough to know that changes in attitudes, etc.,
    are best made slowly, subtly, and carefully.  (If you can make
    a living doing it, congratulations!!)
    
                                 - Ed -

    I, like all of you who have replied to this note, will miss RAH.
    
    _The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_ remains one of my favorite novels.
     While I agree with the sentiment expressed that some of his later
    work was not up to the standard of some of his earlier stuff, he
    none the less was a great influence on SF throughout his very long
    and productive life.
    
    R.I.P.
    
    Michelle

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Subject: Space Station Heinlein
Posted: 15 May 88 23:44:08 GMT
Organization: 
 
A movement has been started on CompuServe that I thought I would pass along.
Ray Feist, among others, are starting as major a lobbying attempt as we can
put together to get the space station named after Heinlein. 
 
I urge everyone who is interested in seeing this happen to send a letter
suggesting the name to their representatives, and to management at NASA.
I'm not posting a sample letter because letters need to be individualized,
because if they start seeing a lot of duplicate letters they'll discount the
whole campaign.
 
If you believe Heinlein deserves to go to the stars with our astronatus,
write to your Senators, and to NASA, and let them know! I'll have more
information on this in the next OtherRealms, but I didn't want this to wait.
Do it now!
 
Another way you can do something for Heinlein is to GIVE BLOOD. There are a
number of organizations that are organizing blood drives in his name. If you
donate blood, please mark the donor organization "Heinlein". Bjo Trimble is
putting together a drive to see how much blood can be given in his name
before Westercon here on the west coast, and there are discussions going on
about putting something together at Nolacon. 
 
These are two positive ways you can show your respects to Heinlein, and also
do good for other people as well. 
 
chuq
Chuq Von Rospach			[email protected]		Delphi: CHUQ
 
	Robert A. Heinlein: 1907-1988. He will never truly die as long as we
                           read his words and speak his name. Rest in Peace.

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Subject: The Green Hills of Earth
Posted: 13 May 88 07:45:31 GMT
Organization: U of Calgary, Canada
 
From ``The Green Hills of Earth'' --
 
    Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me
    As they rove around the girth
    Of our lovely mother planet,
    Of the cool green hills of Earth.
 
    We rot in the molds of Venus,
    We retch at her tainted breath.
    Foul are her flooded jungles,
    Crawling with unclean death.
 
    We've tried each spinning space mote
    And reckoned its true worth:
    Take us back again to the homes of men
    On the cool, green hills of Earth.
 
    The arching sky is calling
    Spacemen back to their trade.
    _All_hands! _Stand_by! _Free_falling!
    And the lights below us fade.
 
    Out ride the sons of Terra,
    Far drives the thundering jet,
    Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
    Out, far, and onward yet --
 
    We pray for one last landing
    On the globe that gave us birth;
    Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies
    And the cool, green hills of Earth.
 
 
If I may, a final verse:
    There're those who've had a vision,
    And gifts to give us sight;
    We thank thee all, your efforts call
    Mankind to pursue his light -
 
 
 
               Robert A. Heinlein 1907 - 1988

    re Heinleins' "later" work not being "up to the standards of his
    earlier books.
    
    Flame on:
    
    OF COURSE NOT !!! THEY WERE *NOT* *MEANT* TO BE THE SAME !!
    
    flame off:
    
    Is there *any* book to compare "Job" to ? No. But maybe in ten or
    twenty years some young writer will show the guts RAH had to
    write that book. It isn't up to old standards. It *will* be
    a standard itself. Ditto most of his "later" stuff. 
    
    Remember, "Stranger" was written several years before it was published.
    The world wasn't ready for it. Obviously, the world isn't ready
    for Heinlein's later works. Only this time the objections aren't
    on religious grounds, but on something much worse - simple "it ain't
    like what I'm used to". 
    
    So much for the open-mindedness of fandom. I'm having an attack
    of "Harlan Ellison might be right". Scary.
    

    re:.22
    
    Hold on just a second!
    
    If people didn't think that the later books were "up to the
    standards" of the earlier books, then that is their opinion,
    and they are welcome to it. Personally, I didn't think his
    *earlier* books were up to the standards of his earlier books.
    Err...you know what I mean. And that's as valid an opinion as
    yours.
    
    Note, they did not say that the later books had to be the *same*
    as the earlier books, but that they should've been at least of
    the same quality.
    
    I find the idea that Heinlein couldn't write a bad book if he
    tried to be as ludicrous an idea as any I've ever heard. *No*
    writer bats a thousand�.
    
    --- jerry
    
    � Actually, there is at least one that I can think of: Harper Lee.
    She wrote only one book (so far) in her life, and that was TO KILL
    A MOCKINGBIRD.

    I liked to Kill a MockingBird.
    
    RAH, some of his later stuff did seem lacking, but in reading some
    interview thingies, and some things friends had told me, I put a
    lot of it off to bad health.
    
    Besides over the  course of my lifetime, I got enough enjoyment
    out of his good books that I felt a little like I was supporting
    an old friend there towards the last.
    
    Nobody can be good all the time, Heinlein has had his day and gone,
    I vote for remembering the "good times".

    If the current (or future) crop of SF writers generate nothing but
    "THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST"-type stories then I'll become a non-SF
    reader (when I finish off the stuff I've already bought, which should
    see me through to the year 2000).
    
    See, I thought JOB was one of his best recent works; it just wasn't
    as satisfying as those from the pre-"I WILL FEAR NO EVIL" era(s).  I
    thought FRIDAY was good, also, but it seemed unfinished--ergo--
    unsatisfying.
    
    In retrospect, I guess it was a good thing he wrote under the
    restrictions he did, else most his stuff would have been classed
    as fantasy.
    
    							Don  (still
    							      a fan)
    

    Don brings up a good point (somewhat roundaboutly).
    
    Most people I know that have read and disliked Heinlein's more
    recent work are of the opinion that they wouldn't have passed
    the Joe Blow Test. Meaning, that if Joe Blow had written them
    instead of Robert Heinlein, no editor would've touched them with
    a ten-foot, gold-plated pole. In other words, they just simply
    weren't worth publishing, no matter whose name was on the by-line.
    This is what they mean by "not being up to the standards of his
    earlier work.
    
    It does no one any good, Heinlein least of all, to claim that
    Heinlein's excrement isn't malodorous. Now, all sorts of excuses
    can be made and may well be valid. There are those folks who
    want to read whatever RAH has written, regardless of the quality.
    There are those who feel that even bad Heinlein is better than
    good anyone else. There are those who feel that supporting him
    in his years of infirmity is an implicit thank you for what he's
    given them in the past. These are all well and good, and very
    acceptable -- and honorable -- reasons. But be honest about the
    reasons.
    
    This is not to say that there aren't those who truly believe that
    the later works were outstanding pieces of fiction, or are at
    least noble failures. But it's also true that people who denigrate
    his later work are not doing so because they are out to "get"
    Heinlein for some reason, or to be iconoclastic in general. Some
    people just don't like deifying anyone, and call them as they see
    them.
    
    --- jerry

    re: .20 Possible Tribute for RAH...
    
    Taken from "Sky and Telescope", June 1988 p 650 --
    
    American elementary and secondary school teachers may enter their
    students in a national competition to name the new Space Shuttle
    orbiter that will replace the lost 'Challenger'.  Entry packets
    are available from:
    
    	NASA Orbiter Naming Program
    	Council of Chief State School Officers
    	Suite 300
    	400 N. Capitol St., NW
    	Washington, DC 20001
    
    The deadline for entries is December 31, 1988.
                
    -- rich

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Subject: Another Heinlein obit
Posted: 21 May 88 01:14:20 GMT
Organization: Unisys Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
 
    The following item was in the June issue of Petr Beckmann's
newsletter "Access to Energy". 
 
    "With deep regret I must inform you of the deaths of two long-time
subscribers.  Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of American science fiction
writers, died at age 80, leaving no less than 64 of his books still in
print.  Readers may remember his enthusiastic contratulations on the
10'th anniversary of "Access to Energy" in 1983." 

    Mike Van Pelt                            ...uunet!ubvax!unisv!vanpelt

The electronic networks,  of course, have always been the terrorist's
most reliable ally, for they have never failed to bend over backwards
to give him what he craves: extravagant publicity.  --  Petr Beckmann
 
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    "Those who refuse to learn history are doomed to misquote it."
 

    re: .26
    
    Under the circumstances, I guess I can't argue with that.
                                    
    							Don

    RE: .26
    
    Not that it really matters, but I tend toward "noble failures"
    and "even inferior Heinlein is better than 90% of the stuff on the
    market" for all of RAH's works after "Time Enough for Love," which
    I think deservedly earned the reputation as being the capstone novel
    of Heinlein's career. Having said that, I'll also note that I bought
    each of Heinlein's later books in hardcover (except "Number of the
    Beast," of course) as soon as it was released, usually had it read
    within days of the purchase, and wouldn't have passed on the
    opportunity to do so. Even at his worst, and I thought "Number of
    the Beast" that, I still found much in the book, and in every
    following book, to interest, excite, and provoke me. And ultimately,
    it all boils down to a matter of taste. I have a friend who argues
    quite forcefully that "The Number of the Beast" is a tour-de-force. 
    
    Although I personally feel that "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is
    the single best science fiction novel ever written, I also feel
    that Heinlein's contribution to and profound influence over the field
    may ultimately be seen as being his so-called "juveniles." As a
    body of work, they simply are without peer, in my opinion.
    
    It's hard to imagine what science fiction would have been like without
    him. It's hard to imagine what fans will do without any new works
    of Heinlein's to attach sexist, racist, fascist, or a multitude
    of other "ist" tags to. It amused me greatly to see only the slight
    pause the news of his death brought to the omnipresent and apparently 
    immortal sf-lovers "Heinlein" argument before the yammerheads were
    going at it again hammer-and-tongs (indeed, an argument broke out
    about whether it was appropriate to post obituaries. I'm not kidding).
    Maybe Heinlein would have been amused, too. If nothing else, it
    would have confirmed his opinion of human nature. :-)
    
    R.I.P., Senior. 
    
    Fred

    Goodbye RAH, you will be missed.
    
    	"When beggers die, there are no comets seen;
    	 The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of a Prince"
    					Julius Caesar
					William Shakespeare

    When I was in college, a very good friend of mine was a Fundamentalist
    Christian.  He was and still is a Heinlein fan.  When I graduated,
    we kept contact over the usenet.  I was surprised to find out that
    he had moved away from the Christian faith and became an agnostic.
    I do not want to comment on the nature of Chistianity or other faith.  
    The important point is that this change of faith is the result of 
    reading Heinlein's _Job_ !!  
    I have not read any of Heinlein's books, but any book that can have
    such strong influences over its reader(s) deserves attention.
    Eugene

      The following is excerpted from Jerry Pournelle's "A User's 
      View" column in the May 30, 1988 Infoworld magazine:
 
      Dreaming and Doing
 
      Some years ago when the United States flew spacecraft instead 
      of endlessly redesigning them, I had the extraordinary good 
      fortune to be sitting with Robert A. Heinlein in the cafeteria 
      at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the landing of 
      the Viking probe on its mission to Mars.
 
      We were in the cafeteria because whereas I had both press and 
      VIP credentials, Mr. Heinlein did not.  I had brought him to 
      JPL because I thought he belonged there during that event; but 
      there hadn't been time to get him credentials, so the NASA 
      authorities ordered him out of the Von Karman Center 
      auditorium.
 
      There is sometimes justice in this world.  At the moment the 
      probe touched down, most of the network news cameras were in 
      the cafeteria trained on Mr. Heinlein, rather than down in the 
      auditorium recording whatever NASA officials thought they 
      should be broadcasting.
 
      I was in Atlanta for Comdex when I learned that on Sunday, May 
      8, Robert A. Heinlein died peacefully during a nap.  Like one 
      of his beloved cats, when it was time, he left us without 
      fuss.  He was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea.
 
      Mr. Heinlein began writing science fiction before World War 
      II, at a time when most strategists thought battleships would 
      dominate naval warfare indefinitely and that a battleship's 
      analog fire-control system was the most advanced computer 
      technology in the world:  a time when the Norden bombsight was 
      top-secret technology.  After the war, while Dr. Vannevar Bush 
      was telling Congress that the United States would never be 
      threatened by intercontinental missiles, Robert Heinlein gave 
      us _Rocket Ship Galileo_ and _Universe_.
 
      He wrote the outline of his "future history" in 1940-41.  He 
      was ridiculed for predicting in that history that the first 
      rocket to the Moon would fly as early as 1976 -- and that it 
      would usher in a "false dawn," followed by a long hiatus in 
      space travel during the "crazy years" of mass psychosis toward 
      the end of the Twentieth Century.  Alas, some of that is 
      chillingly accurate.
 
      Robert Heinlein had as much to do with creating our future as 
      any man of this century.  It was not remarkable that the 
      science reporters for the networks chose to follow him into 
      exile in the JPL cafeteria.  They, like most of Caltech's 
      scientists and engineers, would never have been there if his 
      stories had not called them to study and learn so they 
      could make his dreams a reality.  His stories have caused more 
      young people to choose careers in science and engineering than 
      all the formal recruiting pitches any college or university 
      ever tried.
 
      I owe a great part of whatever success I've had as a writer to 
      the help and encouragement Robert Heinlein gave me nearly 30 
      years ago.  I once asked him how I could pay him back.  His 
      answer was simple:  "You can't.  You pay it forward."
 
      He changed our lives in many ways.  His dreams prepared the 
      way for space flight.  Most of the technology for our 
      microcomputers grew from and was financed by the need for 
      ever-smaller computers to guide missiles and spacecraft.  This 
      whole industry is in his debt.
 
      It's not a hard debt to pay; indeed it costs nothing because 
      we get back tenfold everything we invest.
 
      We can pay Robert Heinlein forward by keeping the dream alive:  
      a dream of an endless frontier where free people know no 
      limits and knowledge has no bounds.
 
      Ad astra.

    	I won't bother trying to address the quote from Jerry Pournelle;
    it seems pretty reasonable. Although I found a lot of his fiction
    to be poor (particularly his later work, in common with many other
    readers), Heinlein's "juvenile" novels represented the bridge between "kids
    SF" and the real thing for me. I also accept the point that he was
    one of the earliest authors to succeed in placing ordinary characters
    in SF novels. He deserves acclaim for being a major contributor
    to such success as the SF genre has achieved.
    
    Ian D.

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    There was a recent request for the Heinlein "author list."  Having
not seen one, here's an alternative from my series of Heinlein
materials previously posted to the CompuServe sci-fi forum.  (They
have not been posted here because, heretofore, there were problems
posting to rec.* groups from this site.  I am trying this because the
problem is reportedly healed.) 
 
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RAH8811A.BIB 1.01                                     dh:89-02-18
  
                       Heinlein Chronology
  
    This  continuation  of  my  collection of annotated bibliographic
materials   is  devoted  to  reconstructing  the  chronology   of
publication of Robert  A.  Heinlein's work.  The chronology given
by  Leon  E.  Stover  in  his  biography  is taken as a point  of
departure,  with  cross-references  to  Stover's citations of the
individual  works  with  regard to various themes taken up in the
biography.
 
This is by no means a comprehensive chronology, and  I  have  not
verified all of the citations.  I expect that  there  are  errors
concerning some of the changes of titles, and also concerning the
original publications.  I also regret that it is now difficult to
determine where the serializations of the juveniles appeared.  It
is my intention  to  update this chronology as better information
becomes available.
                                            -- Dennis E. Hamilton
                                                 February 8, 1989
 
 
%A Leon E. Stover
%T Heinlein Bibliography
%B Robert A. Heinlein
%I G. K. Hall & Company, Twayne Publishers
%C Boston, MA
%D 1987
%Z ISBN 0-8057-7509-9 alk. paper
%O Compiled from references throughout the work.
%K Heinlein Stover Chronology Publications Bibliography
%X I am using the Stover treatment as the basis for  a chronology
on  Heinlein's  work.    The  basic sequences are from the  front
matter and the appendix material.    The  discussions  of various
works  and  themes  result from a page-by-page  analysis  of  the
complete  bibliography.    As  in  the   similar   commentary  on
biographical matters,  references in the form [LS:...] are to the
Stover biography, [EU:...] is to Heinlein's  own  commentaries in
"Expanded Universse."  I  have  also  added  additional citations
from other sources and corrected a few of the misprinted listings
in [LS].  I have  maintained the chronology of first publication,
to the extent known, so that  there  is a firm perspective on how
the  author's  work  developed and overlapped.  Of course, a more
reliable treatment  would review when the works were written, not
published, even though  most  of Heinlein's short works appear to
have  sold  quickly.      By   Heinlein's   own   admission,  the
chronological work was not  without  influence  from contemporary
affairs and personal  experiences  (such as his ideas about world
government and the experience of  visiting the Soviet Union).  It
is  therefore  useful  to match the chronology with events in the
lives of the Heinleins and of America.

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Life-Line.   Astounding  Science Fiction.
August, 1939.  Collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), The
Worlds of Robert A.  Heinlein  (1966),  The Past through Tomorrow
(1967),  Expanded  Universe  (1980).   circumstances for writing,
rejection  by Colliers  [LS:21-22];  heroic  capitalism  [LS:30];
contrast of Pinero and Shipstone  [LS:68];  tale  of  election of
grace  [LS:100-101];  fact  over  theory   [LS:102-103];  destiny
[LS:104].

   Robert A. Heinlein.    Misfit.    Astounding  Science Fiction.
November, 1939.  Collected  in  Revolt  in  2100 (1953), The Past
through Tomorrow (1967). personal destiny  [LS:104-105]; one-and-
the-many [LS:110-111].

   Robert A. Heinlein.   Requiem.    Astounding  Science Fiction.
January, 1940.  Collected in The Man Who Sold  the  Moon  (1950),
The Past through Tomorrow (1967).  value of honest labor [LS:16];
space ship "Lunatic," The Man Who Sold the Moon [LS:25]; personal
destiny [LS:105-106].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   If This Goes On--.  Astounding Science
Fiction.  March,  1940.   Collected in Revolt in 2100 (1953); The
Past through Tomorrow (1967).    testament  against revolutionary
elites [LS:68]; women and combat [LS:70-71].

   Lyle  Monroe.  Let There Be Light.    Super  Science  Stories.
May,  1940.   Collected in The Man  Who  Sold  the  Moon  (1950).
belongs  in  Future  History  [LS:36];  opposition  to  protected
monopolies  [LS:44];  learning  experience  in   human  relations
[LS:65].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The  Roads Must Roll.  Astounding Science
Fiction.  June, 1940.  Collected in The Man  Who  Sold  the  Moon
(1950).  relationship to  1981  air-trafffic  controllers' strike
[LS:7].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Coventry.    Astounding  Science Fiction.
July, 1940.  Collected in Revolt in 2100 (1953); The Past through
Tomorrow (1967).  viewpoint [LS:114-121]; impossibility of social
control [LS:120].

   Robert A.  Heinlein.    Blowups  Happen.    Astounding Science
Fiction.  September,  1940.    Collected  in The Man Who Sold the
Moon  (1950);  The  Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966); The Past
through Tomorrow (1967), Expanded Universe (1980).    relation to
1986  Chernobyl disaster [LS:7]; individuals over  insurmountable
obstacles [LS:27]; reference to D.D. Harriman [LS:41].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Devil Makes the Law.  Unknown Worlds.
September, 1940.  Collected as  "Magic, Inc." in Waldo and Magic,
Inc. (1950).  Heinlein's first fantasy story [LS:34-35].

   Anson MacDonald.  Sixth Column.   Astounding  Science Fiction.
January-March, 1941.  Published as The Day after Tomorrow (1949).
Signet Books  edition, 1949.  Later reprints restore the original
title.

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.  --And  He  Built  a   Crooked  House--.
Astounding Science Fiction.  February, 1941.  Collected in 6  x H
(1959).  relationship  to  Claude Bragdon's 1913 Primer of Higher
Space  [LS:4]  part  of  Future  History  anthologized  elsewhere
[LS:36].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  Logic of  Empire.    Astounding  Science
Fiction.  March,  1941.    Collected  in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951); The  Past through Tomorrow (1967).  Frederick Douglass on
freedom [LS:62]; one-and-the-many [LS:110-111].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  They.  Unknown  Worlds.    April,  1941.
Collected  in  6  x  H  (1959).    not solipsistic  [LS:106-108];
Glaroon  of "Job" [LS:106]; collective immortality  [LS:108-109];
volition [LS:109-110].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Universe.    Astounding  Science Fiction.
May, 1941.  10 cent Dell Book (New  York:  1951).    Collected in
Orphans of the Sky (1964).   failure of first starship "Vanguard"
[LS:25];  part  of  Future  History  but  not  collected with  it
[LS:36]; fact versus theory [LS:104].

   Anson MacDonald.  Solution Unsatisfactory.  Astounding Science
Fiction.    May, 1941.  Collected in  The  Worlds  of  Robert  A.
Heinlein (1966), Expanded Universe (1980).

   John W. Campbell.   History  to Come (editorial).  plan of the
Future History Series.    Astounding Science Fiction.  May, 1941.
pp. 5, 123-125.  The now-famous table is updated and reprinted in
many of the  collections,  and  is  found  on  pp.660-661  of the
Berkley Medallion edition of "The Past Through  Tomorrow (1967)."
type-casting  and  need  for  pseudonyms  [LS:35-36];  origin  of
"Future History" [LS:63].

   Anson  MacDonald.    We Also Walk Dogs.    Astounding  Science
Fiction.   July, 1941.  Collected in The  Green  Hills  of  Earth
(1951), The Past Through Tomorrow (1967).

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    Methuselah's  Children.    Astounding
Science  Fiction. July-September, 1941.  (3-part  serialization).
1958.  Signet Books edition, 1960.  Collected in The Past through
Tomorrow (1967).  connection  with  Universe,  success  of second
starship, "New Frontiers" [LS:25];  Howard  Families  as metaphor
for   American   pluralism   [LS:62];  selflessness  as  laziness
[LS:93-94].

   Caleb Saunders.    Elsewhere.    Astounding  Science  Fiction.
September,  1941.    Collected  as  "Elsewhen"  in  Assignment in
Eternity (1953). only use of this pseudonym, metaphorical fantasy
[LS:37]; method of transport [LS:39].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    Common  Sense.    Astounding  Science
Fiction.  October, 1941.  Collected in Orphans of the Sky (1964).
part of Future History, but not collected with it [LS:36].

   Anson MacDonald.    By  His  Bootstraps.    Astounding Science
Fiction.  October,  1941.   Collected in The  Menace  from  Earth
(1959).      only  story  dealing   with   individual   damnation
[LS:98-100]; free will and predestination [LS:126].

   Lyle Monroe.  Lost Legion.   Super Science Stories.  November,
1941.    Collected  as "Lost Legacy" in  Assignment  in  Eternity
(1953).  playful treatment of ghost-horror subgenre [LS:34-35].

   John W. Campbell.  editorial announcement.  Astounding Science
Fiction.  February, 1942. p.35.  Reports return of both Robert A.
Heinlein and Anson MacDonald to navy service [LS:36].

   Lyle Monroe.  My Object All Sublime.  Future.  February, 1942.

   Anson MacDonald.  Goldfish Bowl.  Astounding  Science Fiction.
March,  1942.    Collected  in  The  Menace  from  Earth  (1959).
aliens/gods [LS:109].

   Anson MacDonald.  Beyond  This  Horizon.    Astounding Science
Fiction.    April-May,  1942.  1948.  Signet Books edition, 1960.
failed  genetic  utopia,  man  as  a  wild  animal  incapable  of
domestication for any purpose whatever [LS:33].

   Anson MacDonald.  Waldo.  Astounding Science Fiction.  August,
1942.   Collected in Waldo and Magic,  Inc.  (1950).  last  story
written before returning to service  in  December,  1941 [LS:36];
magical power source [LS:39].

   John Riverside.  The Unpleasant Profession  of  Jonathan Hoag.
Unknown Worlds.    October,  1942.    Collected  in 6 x H (1959).
comments on  choice  of  name,  pure  fantasy  [LS:38]; realistic
companionate marriage [LS:64-65];  comparison  to Bonner-Sakharov
struggle [LS:65].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    Testing   in   Connection   with  the
Development of Strong Plastics for Aircraft.  Naval Air Materials
Center (Philadelphia: 1944).  invention  of  space  suit  with L.
Sprague de  Camp  [LS:22];  virtues  of  clear  technical writing
[LS:23].

   Robert A. Heinlein.    Dance session.  unpublished poem (June,
1946).  Collected in New Destinies 6 (Winter, 1988).

   Robert A.  Heinlein.  The witch's daughters.  unpublished poem
(August, 1946).  Collected in New Destinies 6 (Winter, 1988).

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    The  Green Hills of Earth.   Saturday
Evening Post.    1947.    Collected  in  The Green Hills of Earth
(1951); The Past through Tomorrow  (1967).  Stover lyrics for "Up
Ship!"  [LS:preface];  Mars   [LS:55];  ethical  meaning  of  new
frontiers [LS:94-95]; ownership of good works [LS:119].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Space  Jockey.    Saturday  Evening Post.
April 26, 1947.  Collected in The Green Hills  of  Earth  (1951),
The Past through Tomorrow (1967).

   Lyle Monroe.  Pied Piper.  Astonishing Stories.  May, 1947.

   Lyle Monroe.  Columbus  Was  a Dope.  Startling Stories.  May,
1947.  Collected  in  The  Menace  from Earth (1959).  belongs in
Future History [LS:36].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  It's Great to Be Back!   Saturday Evening
Post.  July  26,  1947.    Collected  in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951), The Past  through  Tomorrow  (1967).    pioneering spirit
[LS:32-33].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   Jerry Is  a  Man.    Thrilling  Wonder
Stories.   October,  1947.    Collected  as  "Jerry Was a Man" in
Assignment in Eternity (1953).

    Robert  A.   Heinlein.    Water  is  for  Washing.    Argosy.
November, 1947.  Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

   Robert A. Heinlein.   On  the  Writing of Speculative Fiction.
pp. 11-19 in Of  Worlds  Beyond:  The  Science of Science Fiction
Writing.   Lloyd Arthur Eshback, ed.    Advent  (Chicago:  1947).
pulling fantasy  and  science  fiction  together  as  speculative
fiction [LS:35].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Black Pits of Luna.  Saturday Evening
Post.  January 10, 1948.   Collected  in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951), The Past  through  Tomorrow (1967).  pioneering types and
spirit [LS:30-31].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Ordeal in  Space.   Town & Country.  May,
1948.  Collected  in  The  Green  Hills of Earth (1951), The Past
through Tomorrow (1967).

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  Gentlemen, Be Seated!    Argosy.    May,
1948.  Collected  in  The  Green  Hills of Earth (1951), The Past
through Tomorrow (1967).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Our Fair City.  Weird  Tales.    January,
1949.  Collected in 6 x H (1959).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Rocket  Ship  Galileo.    Scribner's (New
York: 1947).

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   Space Cadet.   Scribner's  (New  York:
1948).    Heinlein's  affection  for  the  academy  life [LS:18];
connection to The Long Watch [LS:41].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    The  Long  Watch.    American  Legion
Magazine.  December, 1949.  Collected in The Green Hills of Earth
(1951),  The  Past  through  Tomorrow  (1967),  New  Destinies  6
(Winter, 1988).  connection to Space Cadet [LS:41].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Delilah and the Space Rigger.  Blue Book.
December,  1949.    Collected in The Green Hills of Earth (1951),
The Past through Tomorrow (1967).

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    Gulf.    Astounding  Science Fiction.
December, 1949.   Collected  in  Assignment  in  Eternity (1953).
connection to "Friday" [LS:p.67]; superman stories [LS:67-68].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Red Planet.  Scribner's (New York: 1949).
Lowell's Mars here, in Stranger in a Strange Land, and  the Green
Hills of Earth [LS:55].

   Robert A.  Heinlein.  Destination Moon.  Short Story Magazine.
September,  1950.    Collected  in  Three  Times  Infinity,  Leon
Margulies,  editor.    Gold   Medal   Books,   1958.    costs  of
exploration, Challenger disaster [LS:44-45].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    Destination  Moon  (screenplay).   An
Eagle-Lion release produced by  George  Pal,  directed  by Irving
Pichel, featuring John Archer, Warner Anderson,  Tom  Powers, and
Dick  Wesson (with cameo appearance by  Woody  Woodpecker).    91
minutes, color. [LS:134 chapter 5 note 3].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  The Man Who Sold  the  Moon.    Original
story  included  in  the  collection  of  the  same  name,  1950.
Collected  in  The  Past  through  Tomorrow (1967).   drawing  on
pioneering forbearers [LS:8]; relationship of D.  D.  Harriman to
Edward  Henry Harriman, Carlyle [LS:9]; cats [LS:14];  Harriman's
wonderful   dream  [LS:16];  spaceship  "Santa  Maria"   [LS:25];
significance of renaming from "Care Free",  divine  ordination of
human   diaspora   into   space,   space  and  peace  [LS:27-28];
responsibility    of    wealth    [LS:87-88];    one-and-the-many
[LS:110-113].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Man Who Sold the Moon.  1950.  Signet
Books edition, 1973.   Collection  of  Blowups Happen (1940), Let
There Be Light (1940),  Life-Line  (1939),  The  Man Who Sold the
Moon (1950), Requiem (1940), and The Roads Must Roll (1940).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Farmer in the Sky.  Scribner's (New York:
1950).  hard work and unconquerable courages [LS:44].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Waldo and Magic, Inc.  (Waldo:  Genius in
Orbit). Doubleday (New York:  1950).    Avon Books edition, 1950.
Del Rey  Ballantine Books edition, 1986. Collects The Devil Makes
the Law (1940) and Waldo (1942).

   Robert A. Heinlein.    Between Planets.  Scribner's (New York:
1951).

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   The Puppet Masters.    Galaxy  Science
Fiction.  September  -  November,  1951.    1951.    Signet Books
edition, 1951.

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Tom  Corbett,  Space  Cadet.   Television
series.  1951  to  1954.    Videotapes  available  in  catalog of
Nostalgia Merchant, A Division of Media Home  Entertainment, Inc.
(Culver  City,  CA)   [LS:134 chapter 5 note 4].  This series was
Heinlein's concoction,  according  to  Raymond  J.  Healy  and J.
Francis McComas in "Famous Science Fiction Stories: Adventures in
Time and Space" [Modern Library (New York: 1946,  1957)].   based
on "Space Cadet (1948)" [LS:45].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Green Hills of Earth.  1951.   Signet
Books  edition, 1951.  Collection of The  Green  Hills  of  Earth
(1947), The Black Pits  of  Luna  (1948),  Delilah and the Space-
Rigger (1949), Gentlemen, Be Seated!  (1948),  It's  Great  to Be
Back!  (1947), Logic of Empire (1941),  The  Long  Watch  (1949),
Ordeal  in  Space  (1948), Space Jockey (1947), We Also Walk Dogs
(1941).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Year of the Jackpot.   Galaxy Science
Fiction.  March,  1952.    Collected  in  The  Menace  from Earth
(1959).  atypical outcome [LS:98].

   Robert A. Heinlein.    Where  To?    Life in 2000 A.D.  Galaxy
Science Fiction. 1952.  Predictions first  updated  as "Pandora's
Box" in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) and updated again
as "Pandora's Box" and "Where To?" in Expanded Universe (1980).

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   Ray Guns  and  Rocket  Ships.    1952.
Collected in  Expanded Universe (1980).  on writing for juveniles
[LS:10-11].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  The Rolling  Stones.    Scribner's  (New
York: 1952).  room enough "to swing a cat" [LS:14]; excellence of
technical  exposition  [LS:23];  instructive  influence   of  the
Heinlein juveniles [LS:24]; message [LS:43].

   Robert A. Heinlein, ed.    Tomorrow the Stars.  1952.  Berkley
Books edition, 1967.

   Robert A. Heinlein.    Project  Nightmare.    Amazing Stories.
April, 1953.  Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Sky  Lift.  Imagination.  November, 1953.
Collected in The Menace from Earth (1959).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Starman  Jones.    Scribner's  (New York:
1953).  rating with Huckleberry Finn and Treasure Island [LS:10];
theological reading [LS:115-116].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   Assignment in Eternity.  1953.  Signet
Books edition, 1970.    Collects  Elsewhen  (1941),  Gulf (1949),
Jerry Was a Man (1947), and Lost Legacy (1941).

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  Revolt in 2100.   1953.    Signet  Books
edition,  1970.    Collects Coventry (1940), If  This  Goes  On--
(1940), and  Misfit (1939).  disclaimer of any predictive ability
[LS:63].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   The Star Beast.  Scribner's (New York:
1954).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Project Moonbase  (screenplay).   Lippert
Productions.

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Tunnel in the Sky.  Scribner's (New York:
1955).  juvenile heroism [LS:31-32].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Double Star.  Astounding Science Fiction.
February-April, 1956.  1956  Hugo  Award.   Signet Books edition,
1970.  Farleyfiles [LS:18-19].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  Time for the  Stars.    Scribner's  (New
York: 1956).  basics of mental health [LS:23-24].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Door Into Summer.   The  Magazine  of
Fantasy and Science Fiction.    October-December,  1956.   Signet
Books  edition,  1975.    opening  paragraph  compared  with  Poe
[LS:4-5];  Petronius  the  Arbiter  and  a  former  Heinlein  cat
[LS:14];   recovery   from    loss    [LS:20];   one-and-the-many
[LS:110-111].

   Robert A. Heinlein.   The  Menace from Earth.  The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction.    August,  1957.   Collected in The
Menace from Earth (1959).

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    The  Man Who Traveled  in  Elephants.
Saturn.  October, 1957.  Collected as "The Elephant Circuit" in 6
x H (1959).  Collected in New Destinies 6 (Winter, 1988).  ideals
of sex quality [LS:65].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Citizen of the Galaxy.    Scribner's (New
York:   1957).  frontier   advantages   [LS:31];   knowledge   of
anthropology, Margaret Mader = Margaret Mead [LS:40]; First Human
Civilization to come [LS:95].

   Robert  A.   Heinlein.    Have  Space  Suit  --  Will  Travel.
Scribner's (New York: 1958).   comparison  with  Huckleberry Finn
and Treasure Island [LS:10];  modern  chivalry  [LS:74];  cult of
mediocrity  [LS:90]; responsibility of natural gifts  [LS:90-93];
theological reading [LS:116].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    All  You Zombies--.  The Magazine  of
Fantasy  and  Science  Fiction.  March, 1959.  Collected in 6 x H
(1959).  breaking  out  of  the  mold under his own name [LS:38];
rejection, not embrace of solipsism [LS:41].

   Robert A. Heinlein.    The  Menace  from Earth.  1959.  Signet
Books edition, 1970.  Collects By His Bootstraps (1941), Columbus
Was  a  Dope  (1947), Goldfish Bowl (1942), The Menace from Earth
(1957), Project Nightmare  (1953),  Sky Lift (1953), Water is for
Washing (1947), The Year of the Jackpot (1952).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  6 x H.   1959.    Pyramid  Books edition,
1961.  Reprints All You Zombies (1959), And He  Built  a  Crooked
House (1941),  The Elephant Circuit (1957), Our Fair City (1949),
They (1941),  and  The  Unpleasant  Profession  of  Jonathan Hoag
(1942).

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   Starship Troopers.   The  Magazine  of
Fantasy and Science Fiction.  October - November, 1959.  Putnam's
(New York: 1960).  1960 Hugo Award. Signet  Books  edition, 1961.
rejection by Scribner's, although one of  the  juveniles [LS:45];
criticism, SFWA,  SFRA, fascism [LS:46-47, 134 chapter 5 note 6];
moral  difference  between  soldiers  and  civilians  [LS:47-52];
metaphor for the cold war [LS:60].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Stranger in a Strange Land.  1961.   Avon
Books edition, 1962.  1962 Hugo  Award.   First book by a devoted
science-fiction writer to reach the  New  York  Times best-seller
list.  invention  of  water  bed  [LS:18];  sexuality [LS:53-55];
purpose  of  sex,  primacy  of  women  [LS:54];  getting rich  in
America,   religion   [LS:55-56];   phony  Charles  Manson  story
[LS:56-57]; Red Planet  [LS:55]; critical self-reflection and the
American  identity  [LS:57-60];  title  not   Heinlein's  [LS:134
chapter 6 note 3].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    Searchlight.    Scientific  American.
August,  1962.  Fortune.  September, 1962.    (and  many  others:
printed  as  part  of an advertising campaign).  Collected in The
Worlds of Robert A.  Heinlein  (1966);  The Past through Tomorrow
(1967).  factual basis [LS:2; EU:447-452].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Podkayne of  Mars.   If.  November 1962 -
March 1963.  Putnam's (New York: 1963).   Berkley  Books edition,
1975.  use of viewpoint for ironic  defamiliarization [LS:11-12];
Bertrand   Russell  [LS:12];  intended  as  juvenile,  delay   in
publication [LS:45-46].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Glory Road.  The Magazine of  Fantasy and
Science Fiction.  July-September, 1963.   Berkley  Books edition,
1970.  importance of heroes [LS:52].

   Robert A. Heinlein.   Farnham's  Freehold.   If.  July-August,
1964.  Signet Books  edition,  1965.   branded racist [LS:60-61];
duty to family [LS:61]; Heinlein's  only  graphical  depiction of
sex [LS:64].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Orphans of the Sky.  1964.   Signet Books
edition, 1965.   Collects Universe (1941) and Common Sense (1941)
under one cover.

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.  The Moon is  a  Harsh  Mistress.    If.
December 1965 - April 1966.  1966.   1967  Hugo  Award.   Berkley
Books edition,  1968.    colonial  spirit  [LS:32-33];  socialist
origins of  TANSTAAFL!  [LS:83-84];  importance  of  manners  and
relationship to The Cat Who Walks Through Walls [LS:84-85].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   Free Men.  Original story prepared for
The Worlds of Robert  A.  Heinlein.  1966.  Collected in Expanded
Universe (1980).

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Worlds of Robert A.  Heinlein.    Ace
Books (New York: 1966).   Collection  of  Blowups  Happen (1940),
Free  Men (1966), Life-Line (1939), Searchlight (1962),  Solution
Unsatisfactory (1941).  Updates "Where To?" (1952)  as "Pandora's
Box."  Updated and expanded in "Expanded Universe (1980)."

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Past through Tomorrow.  G.P. Putnum's
(New  York:  1967).    Berkley  Medallion  Books  edition,  1975.
Collects The Black Pits  of  Luna  (1948), Blowups Happen (1940),
Coventry (1940), Delilah  and the Space-Rigger (1949), Gentlemen,
Be Seated! (1948), The Green Hills of Earth (1947), If  This Goes
On--  (1940), It's Great to be  Back  (1947),  Life-Line  (1939),
Logic of Empire (1941),  The  Long Watch (1949), The Man Who Sold
the Moon  (1950),  The  Menace  from  Earth  (1957), Methuselah's
Children (1941), Misfit (1939), Ordeal in  Space  (1948), Requiem
(1940), Searchlight (1962), Space  Jockey  (1947),  We  Also Walk
Dogs (1941).  subtlety of the title [LS:25-26].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  I Will Fear No  Evil.    Galaxy  Science
Fiction.  July-December, 1970.   Putnam's (New York: 1970).  when
the fans themselves complain [LS:62]; the great  brain transplant
joke [LS:63-64].

   Robert A. Heinlein  (guest commentator). p.107 in "10:56:20PM,
EDT,  7/20/69:  The  historic conquest of the moon as reported to
the  American people by CBS over  the  CBS  Television  Network."
Columbia Broadcasting  System  (New  York:  1970).    presence of
Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Walter Cronkite
[LS:43].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    Channel  Markers.    James  Forrestal
Memorial Lecture  delivered at the U. S. Naval Academy, Anapolis.
April 5, 1973.  Tape recording no. 190, "Forrestal Lecture at the
U.S. Naval Academy", American Audio Prose Library  (Columbia, MO:
1973).  Guest editorial in Analog  Science  Fiction/Science Fact.
January, 1974.  Reprinted  as  "The  Pragmatics of Patriotism" in
Expanded Universe (1980). inspirational guidance of young readers
[LS:1-2].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    The   Notebooks   of   Lazarus  Long.
Astounding Science Fiction.  June  1973.  Portions of Time Enough
for  Love  (1974).   Collected in New Destinies 6 (Winter, 1988).
sanity of  "horse  sense,"  relationship  to  Twain's  Pudd'nhead
Wilson [LS:9-10];  positive  outlook  on  human  future  [LS:12];
virtues  of free  enterprise  [LS:13];  ailurophilia  [LS:13-14];
self-reliance, human selfishness as virtue [LS:27-29]; inequities
of life, nature  [LS:32];  protection of pregnant women and young
children, basis of society [LS:54]; sex and love [LS:64]; life is
rigged  [LS:83];  Protestant  work ethic [LS:88-90]; self-respect
[LS:93];   selfishness  as   productive   force   [LS:95];   duty
[LS:96-97];  human  race,  immortality  of Man [LS:101-102]; fact
versus theory [LS:103-104]; humanity/Deity [LS:120-121].

   Robert A. Heinlein.    Time  Enough  for  Love:  The  Lives of
Lazarus  Long.  1973.  Berkley Books edition,  1974.    New  York
Times best-seller  list. resumption of Lazarus Long epic begun in
Methuselah's  Children  (1941)  [LS:chronology];  inspiration  by
grandfather  Alva  E.  Lyle  [LS:8-9];  pioneering  in  starships
[LS:25]; superiority of women to men [LS:65];  oedipal indictment
[LS:73];   epic  form  [LS:73-74];  Howard  Foundation   [LS:74];
Emersonian  self-reliance  [74-78];  family  virtues  [LS:76-78];
women-and-children-first   [LS:71];   group   marriage   [LS:71];
calvinist determinism [LS:88-89]; time enough for love [LS:93].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  No Bands  Playing,  No  Flags  Flying--.
1973.  Collected in Expanded Universe (1980).   treatment  of bed
patients [LS: 18]

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.  Developments  in  Theoretical  Physics.
1975 Compton Yearbook.  Encyclopeida Britannica, Inc.  [LS:66].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  History of  Hematology.    1976  Compton
Yearbook.  Encylclopedia Britannica, Inc.  Reprinted  as pamphlet
"Are You a `Rare Blood'?" [LS:66].

   Robert A.  Heinlein.  Applications of Space Technology for the
Elderly and Handicapped.  Testimony before a joint session of the
House  Select  Committee  on  Aging  and the House  Committee  on
Science and Technology.  Washington, DC.  July 19, 1979.

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   The Number  of  the  Beast.    Fawcett
Columbine (New York: 1980).   New  York  Times  best-seller list.
featuring  Lazarus  Long   [LS:chronology];  "where  cat  is,  is
civilization"  [LS:14];  a  romp  [LS:39];   magic,  multiple-ego
solipsism,  contrast  to  Waldo   (1942)   and   Elsewhen  (1941)
[LS:39-40]; connection with Lucifer, 666, Job [LS:42]; Heinlein's
one "puzzle" book [LS:67].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  A Bathroom of Her Own.  1980.   Collected
in Expanded  Universe  (1980).    Heinlein's  political  campaign
experience [LS:18].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  Expanded  Universe.  Ace Books (New York:
1980).   Updating of "Worlds of Robert  A.  Heinlein  (1966)"  to
include 21 uncollected pieces plus commentaries on all of them.

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   Friday.  Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New
York:  1982).    "Friday's  heroine  is  named  after  the  Norse
fertility goddess Freya.   Indeed,  she  herself  is one of those
mythical  creatures  of  science-fiction  convention,   a  bionic
construct, partly human and  partly  artificial.   This gives her
the  advantage  of  an  outsider's  viewpoint, like that  of  the
proverbial Martian, which she does  not  hesitate  to articulate.
[LS:p.67]"  New York  Times  best-seller  list.  Re-appearance of
Hartly  Baldwin  from "Gulf" [LS:p.67];  cheap  power,  Shipstone
devices   [LS:44,  68];  arguments  against  particularism   (vs.
pluralism) [LS:68-69]; civility and manners  [LS:69-70]; cultural
criticism [LS:71-72].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.    Job:  A  Comedy  of Justice.    1984.
Ballantine Books edition, 1984.  New York Times best-seller list.
virtue  over moral instruction, recovery from adversity  [LS:20];
connection with The  Number  of the Beast [LS:42]; favored versus
Starship  Trooper [LS:49]; eqalitarian marriage [LS:65];  mockery
of Moral Majority  [LS:78-79];    Holy  City  and  Stranger  in a
Strange Land  [LS:79-80];  Koschei  and  Jurgen  [LS:80-81];  the
comedy of justice [LS:81-82]; Glaroon in "They" [LS:106].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  The Cat Who Walks through Walls: A Comedy
of Manners.   Putnam's  (New  York:  1985).  New York Times best-
seller list.  featuring Lazarus Long [LS:chronology]; horse sense
as the real thing [LS:10]; published on 150th anniversary of Mark
Twain's birth [LS:14]; Pixel, the Heinlein's cat  [LS:14]; multi-
person  solipsism  [LS:40]; possibilites of  legal,  social,  and
political  order  of off-Earth habitats  [LS:12-13];  lessons  of
diplomacy [LS:20]; "the manners are the  morals,"  Edmund Spenser
[LS:20];  sequel  to  The  Moon  is  a  Harsh  Mistress  [LS:83];
significance of manners [LS:84-85].

   Robert  A. Heinlein.  A Message to  the  Berkley  Sales  Force
concerning "The Cat Who  Walks  through  Walls."  tape recording.
April 26, 1986.   Transcript  in  Heinlein  archive with opus 188
[The Cat Who Walks through Walls].  banned in Las Vegas [LS:123].

   Robert A. Heinlein.  To Sail beyond the  Sunset--.   Published
July  7,  1987  on Heinlein's 80th birthday.    social  criticism
[LS:122-125];      D.D.Harriman   again   [LS:125];   free   will
[LS:125-126]; Heinlein's vision for humanity [LS:126-128].

   Robert A. "Beast" Heinlein.  The Names of the  Beast  in  "The
Number of the  Beast."    pp.  129-130 in "Robert A. Heinlein" by
Leon  Stover.    Twayne G. K.  Hall  (Boston:  1987).    biblical
allusions, fantasy celebration [LS:39-40].

   Robert  A.  Heinlein.   Grumbles from the Grave.  Writings set
aside   for   posthumous  publication.     Scheduled   for   1990
publication.
 
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Article: 3804
From: [email protected] (DOUGLAS A. LEVY, UPI Science Writer)
Newsgroups: clari.news.trouble,clari.news.interest,clari.tw.science
Subject: Earth to become barren in 2.5 billion years
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:08:02 PST
 
	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Life on Earth as we know it will come to
an end in 1,500 million years and the planet will look more like its
dusty, volcanic sister Venus in 2,500 million years, scientists said
Wednesday. 

	But mirrors or shades potentially could shield Earth from
increasing heat from the sun and delay the catastrophic consequences,
they said. A collision with a comet or other major change in the
atmosphere could speed up the end of life. 

	Ken Caldeira and James Kasting of Pennsylvania State
University calculated the doomsday estimates using computer models of
temperature and atmosphere changes and projections of the sun's
increasing heat. 

	As the sun continues to brighten and warm over time, the
amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere drops -- eventually to a
point too low for plants to survive, the scientists said in the
British journal Nature. 

	Carbon dioxide was a much greater component of air in
prehistoric times, they said, but the sun's increasing brightness has
caused much of that carbon dioxide to escape into space, Caldeira said. 

	``There's really not that much (carbon dioxide) left in the
atmosphere to compensate for more solar luminosity increase,'' he
said, by telephone. 

	``Most of the carbon dioxide would be out of (Earth's) system
within 1 billion years or so, and after 1 1/2 billion years the water
starts getting lost to space'' because Earth's temperature would reach
the boiling point, he said. 

	``After 2 1/2 billion years, all of Earth's water would have
been lost to space. That's a pretty strong barrier to life,'' said
Caldeira, an Earth systems scientist. 

	Tyler Volk, an applied science professor at New York
University, suggested there may be ways to delay or prevent the
eventual demise of life. 

	``Our descendants or descendant species would not have to run
from the devolution...they could fight,'' said Volk. ``Shades in space
or mirrors on the Earth that keep out a small fraction of the elevated
future (heat from the sun) would be an option.'' 

	Other possible solutions include constructing closed
environments such as the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona, in which
cycling of carbon dioxide, water and other essential matter would be
controlled. Establishing controlled Earth-like environments in space
also could be considered, Volk said. 

	``The future ancestral Earth -- dry, burnt and dead -- would
then be fondly recalled in Heinleinian space songs as that mythic
place of 'cool green hills,''' Volk said in a commentary accompanying
Caldeira and Kasting's report.  He was referring to science fiction
Robert Heinlein. 

	The scientists said excessive carbon dioxide released from
fossil fuel burning will not have an impact much beyond 1 million
years, so the ``Greenhouse Effect'' warming is a concern for existing
life but not the future of the planet over millions of years. 

Article: 750
Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews
From: [email protected] (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Grumbles from the Grave, by Robert A. Heinlein
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 20:28:20 GMT
 
_Grumbles from the Grave_ by Robert A.  Heinlein (Ballantine, 1989).
Review written in 1989.
 
  This amusing book of excerpts from Heinlein's correspondence reveals
the agony etc. that went into so many stories that brightened my
youth.  I find that I can remember reading 37 of the 89 short stories
& novels listed in the bibliography, tho none published since _The
Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ (1966).
 
  Heinlein's character seems to me to be just simple enough, & just
enough like mine, for me to grasp.  The major source of his morale was
that he was able to regard himself as a grown man, in the sense of
Kipling's "If": honorable, patient, and, of course, able to make a
living: to stick to his station & its duties, to keep up his end of a
bargain, to respect others' rights & duties and put up with their
defects, to cultivate a sense of proportion & not whine.  He became a
writer by accident, because he was too sick to go on being a naval
officer, and his satisfaction in his work was almost entirely
subordinated to moral grounds for self-esteem.  Like me, he did not
regard Art as an autonomous category of human values, and was
contemptuous of those who did; when he got (privately) exasperated
over the abundant asininities of his editors, it was not because they
subordinated Art to the pursuit of sales (that, he repeatedly
acknowledged, was part of the deal): it was because they were too
stupid & meddlesome to let him do a good job at what he was good at.
In a credo that he wrote for a radio program he said:
 
> I believe in the honest craft of workmen.  Take a look around you.
> There were never enough bosses to check up on all that work.  From
> Independence Hall to the Grand Coulee Dam, these things were built
> level and square by craftsmen who were honest in their bones.
 
(Rest in peace.)
 
  He tried to do right by his fans, and answered their mail for as
long as it remained possible ("I get as tired of answering them as an
old whore gets of climbing those stairs"), but he stayed away from
conventions, clubs, and the like, which he referred to as "organized
fandom" -- an echo, no doubt, of "organized religion", which was a
common pejorative phrase among skeptics of his generation.  I suspect
that being taken seriously made him queasy.
 
  The above quotation is interesting in showing not only the major
strain in his character (devotion to duty), but also a minor strain
that saved him from being merely a stoic, and made it possible for him
to be a sf writer: he believed in Man.  This required, especially in
his day, a certain conservatism & limitation of his imagination.  A
writer's customers are human beings of a kind, and most of them will
not be interested in characters that do not seem human enough for them
to identify with.  The farther away in [the future or the cosmos] a
story is set, the less plausibly can such characters be imagined.  I
noticed this problem at about 15, after reading _Cybernetics_ & _The
Road to Wigan Pier_, and it made me intolerant of all sf that was
placed more than a couple of hundred years in the future.  But sf
writers, until the last decade or so, were not allowed to notice it.
Every story had to contain human beings.  (James Blish's charming
story "Surface Tension" is an exception that proves the rule:  It was
not enough to imagine intelligent rotifers; there had to be some hocus-
pocus to get human beings mapped into them.)  And indeed it is no
problem for Heinlein:  in the abovementioned credo he says that Man --
not just the evolutionary process taking off from him, but "this
hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable
thumb" -- will _outlast the earth_.
 
  More, he was an optimist (in the vulgar sense of the term): one of
those (in Mencken's phrase) born to hope.  He believed in human
progress.  Like me, he had some of the crackpot tendencies that go
with that temperament:  He did not follow John W. Campbell all the way
down to dianetics & Hieronymus machines, but he did take general
semantics seriously far later into life than I did, and more generally
he believed in the possibility of a science of human behavior that
would have sound morals as a rigorous consequence.
 
  I note with amusement that the term "ego boo" was in use so long ago
as 1968.
 
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