Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. (Source.)
Robert A. Heinlein
×CloseAmerican author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)
Born | 7 July 1907 |
Died | 8 May 1988 |
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Robert A. Heinlein
×CloseAmerican author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)
Born | 7 July 1907 |
Died | 8 May 1988 |
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American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction, Fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, English Science fiction, English Short stories, Fiction, general, Interplanetary voyages, Long, lazarus (fictitious character), fiction, Science fiction, american, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Hugo Award Winner, Large type books, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Slaves, Space warfare, award:hugo_award=novel, American Fantasy fiction, Authorship, Extraterrestrial beingsPlaces
Dystopian future America, Mars (Planet), Moon, United States, Chad, Connecticut, Earth, Luna, New York City, New Zealand, Novo Leningrad, Tristan da Cunha, UruguayPeople
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20th century, Dystopian future America, 1939- 1975, 1953-1954, 1970, 1989-, 1989-1993, 2000, 2001, 2075 AD, 2136, Future, Post Apocalyptic, Some future time.ID Numbers
- OLID: OL28641A
- ISNI: 000000011977723X
- VIAF: 12309757
- Wikidata: Q123078
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q123078
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- R. A. Heinlein
- Robert Anson Heinlein
- Robert A Heinlein
- Heinlein R
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