Robert A. Heinlein
Geboren: July 07, 1907 – Butler, Missouri, United States
Robert A. Heinlein was an American science fiction writer whose work explored space travel, politics, social organization, and individual liberty. Best known for Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, he helped shape modern science fiction and won multiple Hugo Awards for his novels.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Robert A. Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, in 1907 and grew up largely in Kansas City in a large Midwestern family whose habits of thrift, discipline, and self-reliance would remain visible in his fiction. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929 and served as a naval officer until illness forced his retirement in 1934, an abrupt change that became one of the defining turns of his life. He studied mathematics and physics at UCLA without taking a degree, worked in several jobs, and briefly engaged in California politics before fiction emerged as the career that matched both his technical cast of mind and his appetite for large social questions.
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Fight, serve, survive: a controversial vision of military citizenship.
Stranger in a Strange Land
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"Robert A. Heinlein was one of the most literary and sophisticated of science-fiction writers"
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"Robert A. Heinlein was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time"
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"Isaac Asimov said Robert A. Heinlein lifted science fiction to a new pitch of quality"
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"Robert A. Heinlein was among the critical figures of the science fiction genre"
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"Robert A. Heinlein was considered by many the most influential science-fiction author since H. G. Wells"
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"Robert A. Heinlein's grasp of narrative strategy was unparalleled in the field"
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