Robert A. Heinlein is credited with bringing science fiction into the mainstream. He was the first sf author whose works routinely entered the bestseller charts, and the first sf writer to earn a one million-dollar advance for his work.
His best talent was for predicting where society 's imagination was going and being there first. During the 1950s, his juvenile sf series inspired the nation's youngsters to dream of travelling to other worlds. Glory Road, Starship Troopers, Double Star, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Have Space Suit Will Travel and Podkayne of Mars all depicted a future where mankind living and working in space was as natural as sleeping and eating. This is not unexpected from a writer who had trained as an engineer.
But Heinlein took a new direction in the 1960s, and as a result, took science fiction in a new direction. His epic work Stranger in a Strange Land, with its depiction of communes, free love, eastern philosophy, alternative states of mind, and its call for peace and understanding, inspired the hippie movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. His later books, I Will Fear No Evil, Time Enough for Love, Friday, Job: A Comedy of Justice, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and To Sail Beyond the Sunset all set publishing records for sf books and experimented with different storytelling techniques and directions.
Heinlein is a giant in the field of science fiction, and he was the most successful of sf writers.
Between Planets; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Between Time and Terror; Robert Weinberg, et al; Mass Market Paperback; $4.49
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls : A Comedy of Manners; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $6.29
Citizen of the Galaxy; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
The Door into Summer; Robert A. Heinlein, et al; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Double Star; Robert A. Heinlein, et al; Mass Market Paperback; $4.45
Expanded Universe; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $4.95
Farmer in the Sky; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Farnham's Freehold; Robert A. Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Friday; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.35
Glory Road; Robert A. Heinlein; Paperback; $9.00
Glory Road; Robert A. Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Have Spacesuit Will Travel; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
I Will Fear No Evil; Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $6.29
Job : A Comedy of Justice; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.35
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress; Robert A. Heinlein; Hardcover; $19.16
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long; Robert A. Heinlein, D. F. Vassallo; Paperback; $14.35
The Number of the Beast; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.35
Podkayne of Mars; Robert Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein; Paperback; $9.00
Podkayne of Mars; Robert A. Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
The Puppet Masters; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Red Planet; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Requiem and Tributes to the Grand Master; Robert A. Heinlein, Yoji; Mass Market Paperback; $6.29
Revolt in 2100; Robert A. Heinlein, et al; Mass Market Paperback; $4.49
Robert Heinlein-4 Vol. Boxed Set ; Robert Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $20.63
The Rolling Stones; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Sixth Column; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Space Cadet; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
The Star Beast; Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Starman Jones; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Starship Troopers; Robert A. Heinlein, et al; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Stranger in a Strange Land; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Paperback; $13.50
Stranger in a Strange Land; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $6.29
Take Back Your Government! : A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy to Work; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Time Enough for Love; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $6.29
To Sail Beyond the Sunset; Robert Heinlein, et al; Mass Market Paperback; $6.29
Tramp Royale; Robert A. Heinlein; Paperback; $13.50
Tunnel in the Sky; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag; Robert A. Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
Waldo and Magic, Inc.; Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Mass Market Paperback; $5.39
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy Read Four Science Fiction Classics : Foundation : The Psychohistorians/Mimsy Were the Borogoves/the Martian Chronic; Isaac Asimov, et al; Audio Cassette; $22.50
Amos De Titeres; Robert Heinlein; Paperback (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Best of Robert Heinlein; Robert Heinlein; Hardcover; $25.95 (Special Order)
Beyond This Horizon; Robert A. Heinlein; Paperback (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Expanded Universe; Robert Heinlein; Paperback (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Friday; Robert Heinlein, Samantha Eggar; Hardcover; $16.99 (Special Order)
Green Hills of Earth; Robert Heinlein; Hardcover (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Green Hills of Earth; Robert A Heinlein; Hardcover; $64.00 (Special Order)
Green Hills of Earth; Robert A. Heinlein; Hardcover; $19.95 (Special Order)
Green Hills of Earth : Rhysling and the Adventures of the Entire Solar System; Robert A. Heinlein; Hardcover; $10.85 (Special Order)
Have Space Suit Will Travel; Robert A. Heinlein; Library Binding; $29.95 (Special Order)
Have Spacesuit Will Travel; Robert Heinlein; Unknown Binding; $11.30 (Special Order)
Life Line; Robert Heinlein; Hardcover; $21.95 (Special Order)
Menace from Earth; Robert Heinlein; Hardcover; $20.95 (Special Order)
The Menace from Earth; Robert Heinlein; Hardcover (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Methuselah's Children; Robert A. Heinlein; Paperback (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Methuselahs Children; Robert A. Heinlein; Hardcover; $21.95 (Special Order)
Ordeal in Space; Robert Heinlein; Hardcover; $22.95 (Special Order)
Ordeal in Space; Robert Heinlein; Hardcover (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Puerta Al Verano/the Door into Summer; Robert Heinlein; Paperback; $8.80 (Special Order)
Red Planet; Robert A. Heinlein; Unknown Binding; $11.30 (Special Order)
Requiem : New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master; Robert A. Heinlein, Yoji Kondo; Hardcover; $21.95 (Special Order)
Requiem : New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master; Robert A. Heinlein, Yoji Kondo; Paperback; $12.95 (Special Order)
Silent Thunder/Universe (Tor Science Fiction Double No 35); Dean Ing, Robert A. Heinlein; Paperback (Publisher Out Of Stock)
Starship Troopers; Robert A. Heinlein; Hardcover; $22.95 (Special Order)
Stranger in a Strange Land; Robert A. Heinlein; Hardcover; $69.95 (Special Order)
Tropas Del Espacio : Premio Hugo 1960; Robert A. Heinlein; Paperback; $8.60 (Special Order)
Tunnel in the Sky; Robert Heinlein; Library Binding; $7.35 (Special Order)
Updated 12/01/96
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