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Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.
He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades. He, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
Heinlein, a notable writer of science fiction short stories, was one of a group of writers who came to prominence under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr. in his Astounding Science Fiction magazine—though Heinlein denied that Campbell influenced his writing to any great degree.
Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought. He also examined the relationship between physical and emotional love, explored various unorthodox family structures, and speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices. His approach to these themes led to wildly divergent opinions on what views were being expounded via his fiction.
Heinlein won Hugo Awards for four of his novels; in addition, fifty years after publication, three of his works were awarded "Retro Hugos"—awards given retrospectively for years in which Hugo Awards had not been awarded. He also won the first Grand Master Award, given by the Science Fiction Writers of America, for his lifetime achievement. In his fiction Heinlein coined words that have become part of the English language, including "grok" and "waldo", and popularized the term "TANSTAAFL".
Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907, to Rex Ivar Heinlein (an accountant) and Bam Lyle Heinlein, in Butler, Missouri. His childhood was spent in Kansas City, Missouri. The outlook and values of this time and place (in his own words, "The Bible Belt" ) had a definite influence on his fiction, especially his later works, as he drew heavily upon his childhood in establishing the setting and cultural atmosphere in works like Time Enough for Love and To Sail Beyond the Sunset. He often broke with many of the Bible Belt's values and mores — especially in regard to religion and sexual morality – both in his writing and in his personal life.
Heinlein's experience in the military exerted a strong influence on his character and writing. Heinlein graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1929, and served as an officer in the United States Navy. He was assigned to the new aircraft carrier USS Lexington in 1931, where he worked on radio communications, then in its nascent phase, with the carrier's airplanes. The carrier's captain was Ernest J. King, who later served as the Chief of Naval Operations during the Second World War. Heinlein was frequently interviewed during his later years by military historians who asked him about Captain King and his service as the commander of the U.S. Navy's first modern aircraft carrier. Heinlein also served aboard the destroyer USS Roper in 1933 and 1934, reaching the rank of lieutenant. His brother, Lawrence Heinlein, served in the Army, the Air Force, and the Missouri National Guard and rose to the rank of major general.
In 1929, Heinlein married Elinor Curry of Kansas City in Los Angeles, but the marriage lasted only about a year. His second marriage in 1932 to Leslyn MacDonald (1904-1981) lasted 15 years. MacDonald was a political radical, and Isaac Asimov later recalled that Heinlein was, like her, "a flaming liberal."
Beginning in 1970, however, Heinlein had a series of health crises, broken by strenuous periods of activity in his hobby of stonemasonry. (In a private correspondence, he referred to that as his "usual and favorite occupation between books." ) The decade began with a life-threatening attack of peritonitis, recovery from which required more than two years. As soon as he was well enough to write again, he began work on Time Enough for Love (1973), which introduced many of the themes found in his later fiction.
In the mid-1970s, Heinlein wrote two articles for the Britannica Compton Yearbook. He and Ginny crisscrossed the country helping to reorganize blood donation in the United States, and he was the guest of honor at the Worldcon for the third time at MidAmeriCon in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1976. While vacationing in Tahiti in early 1978, he suffered a transient ischemic attack. Over the next few months, he became more and more exhausted, and his health again began to decline. The problem was determined to be a blocked carotid artery, and he had one of the earliest known carotid bypass operations to correct it. Heinlein and Virginia had been smokers, and smoking appears often in his fiction, as do fictitious strikable self-lighting cigarettes.
Asked to appear before a Joint Committee of the U.S. House and Senate that year, he testified on his belief that spin-offs from space technology were benefiting the infirm and the elderly. Heinlein's surgical treatment re-energized him, and he wrote five novels from 1980 until he died in his sleep from emphysema and heart failure on May 8, 1988.
At that time, he had been putting together the early notes for another World as Myth novel. Several of his other works have been published posthumously.
After his death, his wife Virginia Heinlein issued a compilation of Heinlein's correspondence and notes into a somewhat autobiographical examination of his career, published in 1989 under the title Grumbles from the Grave. Heinlein's archive is housed by the Special Collections department of McHenry Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The collection includes manuscript drafts, correspondence, photographs and artifacts. A substantial portion of the archive has been digitized and is available online through the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Archives.
About author and audiobooks:
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The Adult Novels
Robert A. Heinlein - Sixth Column (read by Tom Weiner)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Puppet Masters (read by Lloyd James)
Robert A. Heinlein - Double Star (read by Lloyd James)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Door Into Summer (read by Patrick Lawlor)
Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers (read by Lloyd James)
Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land (read by Christopher Hurt)
Robert A. Heinlein - Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein - Farnham's Freehold (read by Fred Majors)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (read by Lloyd James)
Robert A. Heinlein - I Will Fear No Evil
Robert A. Heinlein - Time Enough For Love (read by Roy Avers)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Number Of The Beast (read by George Guidall)
Robert A. Heinlein - Friday (read by Madeline Blizzard)
Robert A. Heinlein - Job-A Comedy Of Justice (read by Paul Michael Garcia)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (read by George Wilson)
Robert A. Heinlein - To Sail Beyond The Sunset (read by Carol McCarthy)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/db492764a32ac077a3439942ab7457ae/Sixth_Column.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/057505045440243efa3af7463b79f0be/The_Puppet_Masters.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/78f1062f934a4667c21948980f95f10e/Double_Star.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/59e1de4156cdd8b9f259aaa0721b527a/The_Door_Into_Summer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7e93823beb3bdaaf59dc51b48d3061da/Starship_Troopers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a59085802055604b5961e494efe42769/Stranger_In_A_Strange_Land.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c7f6352bc2c4432d6e7f6466e226168c/Glory_Road.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/039279796ee35a5ba695a84a04b39688/Farnhams_Freehold.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d31b0c0040385a4e6fb9a12a9faba22a/The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/78b3480aa4306b22bf4e3dc56da145d9/I_Will_Fear_No_Evil.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c6042374cea9c522d58584fc7bd8ddaf/Time_Enough_For_Love.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b747342c91f955bfc0f24076d51f7f04/The_Number_Of_The_Beast.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8ab9831b3eb4d73dbc6ca1eb523579ff/Friday.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/653d38934df1b74f6ca623e9c3170760/Job_A_Comedy_Of_Justice.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a40fdc22bfd58ebe2107ea63e51454e7/The_Cat_Who_Walks_Through_Walls.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bb969c377e3d89d2d48630a53826ba0e/To_Sail_Beyond_The_Sunset.rar.html |
The Heinlein Juveniles
Robert A. Heinlein - Rocket Ship Galileo (read by Spider Robinson)
Robert A. Heinlein - Space Cadet (read by David Baker)
Robert A. Heinlein - Red Planet
Robert A. Heinlein - Farmer In The Sky (read by Scott Brick)
Robert A. Heinlein - Between Planets (read by Bruce Coville)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Rolling Stones (read by David Baker)
Robert A. Heinlein - Starman Jones (read by Michael Skinner)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Star Beast (read by David Baker)
Robert A. Heinlein - Tunnel In The Sky
Robert A. Heinlein - Time For The Stars
Robert A. Heinlein - Citizen Of The Galaxy (read by Lloyd James)
Robert A. Heinlein - Have Space Suit-Will Travel (read by Will McAuliffe)
Robert A. Heinlein - Podkayne Of Mars (read by Martha Harmon Pardee)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/7db7aa702688fe95021c3d20047de53e/Rocket_Ship_Galileo.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/81229262fb60698df04d5f38f0987e57/Space_Cadet.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fb2da7767f0abb0b08059e4876593f02/Red_Planet.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c898db27bb6bd596d60bd09a274e7b6a/Farmer_In_The_Sky.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e3c78e23fb216db6903d91b119c5b569/Between_Planets.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/65566404c755ed84400d4ca651112f54/The_Rolling_Stones.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1ac2530504dd94172416b70edbff08fa/Starman_Jones.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5d4bf8ce0ad2dfb24120038b51225748/The_Star_Beast.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e097b95cb7788fe0fd9b5cab0d580910/Tunnel_In_The_Sky.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/294640005ece14eed77b10cc65b8c820/Time_For_The_Stars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8fbef20b56bf96db584bcb3ebf0e2f8d/Citizen_Of_The_Galaxy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f644ef0b6991afe2f3fec3a593206a60/Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/55f008d7838e0ada0b83e645e9b319b3/Podkayne_Of_Mars.rar.html |
Short Stories / Other
Robert A. Heinlein - Assignment In Eternity (read by Chuck. Benson)
Robert A. Heinlein - Beyond This Horizon (read by James DeLotel)
Robert A. Heinlein - By His Bootstraps
Robert A. Heinlein - For Us, The Living (read by Malcolm Hillgartner)
Robert A. Heinlein - Grumbles From The Grave (read by Fred Major)
Robert A. Heinlein - Methuselah's Children
Robert A. Heinlein - Orphans Of The Sky (read by Eric Michael Summerer)
Robert A. Heinlein - Revolt In 2100 (read by Peter Johnson)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Fantasies Of Robert A. Heinlein (read by Michael Scherer)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Green Hills Of Earth
Robert A. Heinlein - The Menace From Earth (read by Rob McQuay)
Robert A. Heinlein - The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag (read by Tom Weiner)
Robert A. Heinlein - Variable Star (read by Spider Robinson)
Robert A. Heinlein - Short Stories (read by Various Narrators)
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
The Green Hills of Earth
Gentlemen, Be Seated!
Ordeal in Space
The Long Watch
All You Zombies
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http://rapidgator.net/file/472a5ec6e8c754ba0fac4243377e6007/Assignment_In_Eternity.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/564ebc0d5ff5fb19d16b36bfefba4e1d/Beyond_This_Horizon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cccd05be43237f27a2cace14144276df/By_His_Bootstraps.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8be2410f5f6ed5cd5ea009fb316d1106/For_Us_The_Living.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cb2e60a4cc9e7b45434ccd844599e1dc/Grumbles_From_The_Grave.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f221bd1b8cd28c2016e38f592877b766/Methuselahs_Children.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8340b619461ff78e7c30486244b3171e/Orphans_Of_The_Sky.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5ba244a4a73ef45acfc1d81b72ef9c51/Revolt_In_2100.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/502b6b52b80c0978918070377ec6e509/The_Fantasies_Of_Robert_A._Heinlein.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f0922653f26ab1511406073249493d74/The_Green_Hills_Of_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ce2646cfbfdde7a89d6fad5cdc76f5d6/The_Menace_From_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3917b2e63d685d31fb9003bdf2bfa1f9/The_Unpleasant_Profession_Of_Jonathan_Hoag.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/915c9723d76d8311263b0cd682b70399/Variable_Star.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/945598665d35d708ed2d30b607d48d14/Short_Stories.rar.html |
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