Heinlein’s 13th Scribner’s Novel
jameswharris.wordpress.com 4/27/2009 — There are legions of Robert A. Heinlein fans out there that grew up reading the 12 canonical Heinlein young adult novels published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in the 1940s and 1950s, that if we were ever given three magical wishes would use our ...

The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein’s Friday
tor.com 6/15/2009 — On a miserably wet Saturday morning in 1982, when I was young and desolate, I went into the library, as I always did, without very much hope. As I reached the New Books section there, entirely unexpectedly, was Friday , a new Heinlein book. It was ...

The Time Machine (1960)
divers-and-sundry.blogspot.com 1/15/2009 — The Time Machine is a 1960 science fiction film based on the book with the same name by H. G. Wells . Directed by George Pal ( When Worlds Collide , War of the Worlds ), it stars Rod Taylor , Yvette Mimieux , Alan Young , Sebastian Cabot and Whit ...

My FAVES List from the Hugo Nominees & Winners List
rimworlds.com 7/30/2009 — Just to give you some (good) idea of where my preferences and sensibilities lie, I’ve winnowed the entire Hugo novel list down to my faves (subject of course to the future addition of new faves from amongst the works not yet read). Double Star , Robert A. Heinlein The Big Time , ...

Starman Jones, or how Robert A. Heinlein did plot on a good day
tor.com 7/1/2009 — Starman Jones is one of those books I can’t really read any more, because I’ve read it too many times and I know what all the words say before I get to them. If you haven’t read any Heinlein, it would be a terrific place to start as it has a lot of ...

MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Science Fiction?
sfsignal.com 9/16/2009 — We always remember our first. (Yes, I'm talking about reading!) We asked this week's panelists: Q: What book introduced you to science fiction? Check below to see their responses. And tell us what book got you started! Mike Resnick Mike ...

With Double Star , the Hugos Start to Shine [Blogging The Hugos]
io9.com 5 days ago — The original Grand Master brings us the first Hugo-winning novel truly worthy of the award. Hot jets, kiddies! It's Double Star , by Robert Anson Heinlein, from 1956. A quick recap, for those of you just joining us: The first Hugo winner, Alfred ...

Ten of the best…science fiction novels
scifinow.co.uk 7/18/2009 — We give you a run down of some of the best novels in science fiction.

Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers
online.wsj.com 3/16/2009 — ROBERT A. GUTH BELLEVUE, Wash. -- A quarter-century ago, American rocket scientists proposed the "Star Wars" defense system to knock Soviet missiles from the skies with laser beams. Some of the same scientists are now aiming their lasers at another ...

More questions than answers: Robert A. Heinlein’s The Stone Pillow
tor.com 4/1/2009 — When you read a book that’s been so tremendously influential on the whole genre of SF and inspired a whole subgenre of its own, it’s hard to see it clearly. It’s hard to see what it was that seemed so wonderful when it was new that fans rushed to ...