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	Damon Knight on Robert A. Heinlein
		Heinlein's worked the thing out in detail that grows with each story; he has an outlined and graphed history of the future with characters, dates of major discoveries, et cetera, plotted in.
		Heinlein's redheaded wife Ginny is a chemist, biochemist, aviation test engineer, experimental horticulturist; she earned varsity letters at N.Y.U. in swimming, diving, basketball and field hockey, and became a competitive figure skater after graduation; she speaks seven languages so far, and is starting on an eighth.
		Heinlein is a moralist to the core; he devoutly believes in courage, honor, self-discipline, self-sacrifice for love or duty.
	www.rvt.com /~lucas/heinlein/dknight.html (1634 words)

	Heinlein in Dimension, Chapter 3, Part 2
		The gulf of the title is the narrow but distinct gap between ordinary men and a set of self-identified supermen.
		Heinlein has not been one for repeating his stories, though he has returned to a number of themes, and it is certainly legitimate to wonder when two stories on the same subject turn up in one year.
		Heinlein seems to have a particular fondness for Ganymede: one of the young fellows in Space Cadet was a Ganymedean colonist, the hero of Between Planets was born in a ship that was on its way to Ganymede; Farmer in the Sky is about the settling of Ganymede.
	www.panshin.com /critics/Dimension/hd03-2.html (3623 words)

	Gulf (Heinlein) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gulf (1949) is a novella by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published as a serial in the November and December 1949 issues of Astounding Science Fiction.
		Heinlein tacitly admits that use of such a wide variety of speech sounds in close juxtaposition requires fantastic lingual agility and precision.
		Heinlein has written that he had an idea for the story, but decided that it was too large for a novella, and could not be written in the time he had available.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_(Heinlein) (827 words)

	Heinlein Society
		Heinlein graduated in 1929, 20th in a class of 243, and was commissioned with the rank of Ensign.
		On Heinlein's suggestion, Virginia Gerstenfeld had come to Los Angeles and enrolled in the advanced degree program at UCLA when she was released from the Navy in July 1946.
		In July 1979, Heinlein was requested to give testimony in Washington D.C. before a joint session of the House Committee on Aging and the House Committee on Science and Technology, on the subject of applications of space technology for the elderly and the handicapped.
	www.heinleinsociety.org /rah/biographies.html (4188 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Robert A. Heinlein
		Heinlein won four Hugo Awards for best novel of the year with the books "Double Star" in 1956; "Starship Troopers" in 1960; "Stranger in a Strange Land" in 1962 and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" in 1967.
		Robert Anson Heinlein was born July 7th, 1907, into a family of seven children in the small town of Butler, Missouri.
		From Grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/RobertAHeinleineBooks.htm (1017 words)

	A Robert A. Heinlein Biography -- Carlos Angelo
		Heinlein visited Brazil in 1953, on one of his four voyages around the world and, later, in 1969, at the invitation of the Brazilian government.
		Heinlein, always attentive to society's trends, was a step ahead of it in the liberation from and questioning of customs that would soon follow.
		It was only after Heinlein's death that fans could read the original, unredacted version of the novel, making it a unique case of a book's becoming a best-seller twice, the second time 30 years after its first edition.
	www.wegrokit.com /caa.htm (1730 words)

	Gulf - Robert A. Heinlein
		"Gulf" by Robert A. Heinlein is a novella that feels structurally cramped: either it is a couple of partial efforts imperfectly welded, each of which might have done better as separate stories; or it should have been extended to novel length.
		Heinlein raises a number of points, but in the space available they are stated rather than developed — let alone shown.
		Heinlein's worries about humanity's competence to handle the dawning Atomic Age are well founded, and of course he tackled other solutions elsewhere.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Heinlein/Gulf.html (732 words)

	Sex in Heinlein's Stories
		The difficulty with Heinlein on sex is that at first glance all the evidence prior to Stranger in a Strange Land seems negative.
		It might be said that Heinlein was bowing to magazine conventions, but this doesn't hold because Heinlein could have liberalized his attitudes when the novels appeared in book form.
		Heinlein happens to be a better writer than most of these, or at least was until recently, which is the reason his last three major novels are regrettable.
	www.enter.net /~torve/critics/Heinleinsex/sexrah.htm (1512 words)

	James Gifford's Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion Shines Spotlight on the Master
		While he is a devoted Heinlein fan, he claims to be uninterested in staking out critical opinions about it; instead, he focuses on compiling the known facts about each of Heinlein’s major novels and short pieces.
		Heinlein was frequently evasive about his personal beliefs, and the Reader’s Companion highlights a variety of ways in which the ideas he espoused in his writings are more complicated than they seem to be.
		Heinlein attempted to develop several film and television projects in the 1950s and 1960s, including a TV series called Century XXII, which would have been set in the world of his stories "Gulf" and Friday.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/heinlein_companion_000601.html (526 words)

	Robert A. Heinlein A Biographical Sketch
		Heinlein was especially vulnerable because he was entering a commercial market predominantly made up of adolescent boys, and he was able to exploit the market's possibilities only because his radical past was hidden behind the curtain and the smoke and the mirrors.
		Heinlein was becoming a public figure in the wider sense of someone known to the general public, instead of simply a favorite genre writer.
		Heinlein was disenchanted, but he knew that nobody would put the creative control over millions of dollars in his hands, even though he also knew that was what would be necessary to have the project come out all right.
	members.aol.com /agplusone/robert_a._heinlein_a_biogr.htm (18222 words)

	Stranger in a Strange Land
		Perhaps least of all, it anticipated Nancy Reagan's reliance on astrology and spawned the water bed and the neologism "grok," (Heinlein's Martian verb for a thorough understanding), though "grok" would never have taken hold, had the young rebels of the 1960s not discovered Stranger as their counterculture bible.
		Heinlein thought it would be interesting to explore the case of a human raised by Martians.
		Heinlein thought that the idea would make a pretty good Lettres Perses-type novel, took some notes and filed it away for later use, finally placing the completed but abridged version with Putnam's in 1961 (an uncut edition was released in 1991).
	www.wegrokit.com /stranger_in_a_strange_land.htm (831 words)

	DrumNet - Heinlein's Books
		Heinlein always had a habit of painting his characters as fl or white, and that's nowhere so evident as it is here.
		Heinlein's first juvenile, it's a crude and unsatisfying attempt to make a credible story out of an attempt by a mad professor and three teenagers to fly to the moon.
		Heinlein became quite ill after he wrote the first draft of I Will Fear No Evil, and Virginia Heinlein made the decision to publish the book as it stood since it didn't look like Heinlein would recover and be able to edit the work.
	members.cox.net /kdrum/Heinlein.htm (2655 words)

	Gulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gulf or bay is a part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides.
		Gulf is also a novella by Robert A. Heinlein.
		JWA Gulf, the Gulf Oil sponsored, 1960s and 1970s motorracing team of John Wyer
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf (118 words)

	Amazon.ca: Assignment In Eternity: Books: Robert A. Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Robert A. Heinlein is widely and justly regarded as the greatest practitioner of the art of science fiction who has ever lived.
		GULF: In which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide what to do with the rest of us....
		Heinlein is not the first to speculate, but he does put together a great story combining many previous speculations.
	www.amazon.ca /Assignment-Eternity-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0671578650 (1978 words)

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		Heinlein's paternal grandfather one of early settlers of Missouri.
		At least as significant in demonstrating that Heinlein's society is not fascistic is the absence of racism and xenophobia.
		A nice touch here is that Heinlein has his main character fall under the control of the slugs for a short while, so that you see what it is like from the point of view of the controlled.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /20th/txts/heinlein/heinlein.lore (8423 words)

	Amazon.com: Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein: Books: Robert A. Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Heinlein disliked a government that interfered in the everyday affairs of people, and Heinlein, having grown up in the Midwest, had a distrust of people with "religious" motivations.
		Heinlein was known for his juvenile books, and this story is an excellent example of that category of book.
		Heinlein originally used this term in the 1967 novel "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress." The first use of TANSTAAFL in economics literature came in a 1971 book by Edwin G. Dolan.
	www.amazon.com /Off-Main-Sequence-Science-Heinlein/dp/1582881847 (1757 words)

	Renshaw and the Tachistoscope
		In "Gulf", as part of a process in which his naturally-high mental abilities are being trained, the hero, Gilead-Greene-Abner-Briggs (he is a Man-of-Mystery-and-Many-Names) is exposed to a device that throws groups of digits on a screen for periods of a second.
		Heinlein, at least in direct exposition, has chosen to write on just one aspect of Renshaw's work, his work with the tachistoscope.
		Heinlein's representation of the claims made for Renshaw's work is quite sympathetic and quite accurate--that is, granted the possibility that other aspects of Renshaw's work may be questionable, too, but that is a point that may be overlooked, since our interest is in Heinlein's accuracy, not in Renshaw's.
	www.enter.net /~torve/critics/Renshaw/renshaw.htm (2252 words)

	Tenser, said the Tensor: "Gulf" by Robert Heinlein
		Heinlein's explanation of what humans do with unfamiliar speech sounds is exactly right; that's a nice, clear little description of what linguists call categorical perception.
		Heinlein's conception of Speedtalk was heavily influenced by a theory called General Semantics that was developed by Alfred Korzybski in the early 20th century.
		Heinlein crams a lot of information into the rather talky middle part of the story—phonetics and phonology, Basic English, General Semantics, and Samuel Renshaw—but it's a mixed bag of stuff I can believe and stuff that's completely improbable.
	tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/05/gulf_by_robert_.html (3321 words)

	The Robert A. Heinlein Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, in 1907, and died in Carmel, California, in 1988, age 80.
		She also helped to found The Heinlein Society, an educational charity dedicated to paying forward the Heinlein legacies to generations yet to come.
		Virginia Heinlein died in her sleep after a long struggle with respiratory illness and a broken hip suffered on Thanksgiving, David M. Silver, secretary-treasurer of the Heinlein Society was cited in an obituary in the LA Times of January 26, 2003.
	www.luna-city.com /sf/rah.htm (1216 words)

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		This was the first book which Heinlein wrote as a full length novel, and it began his juvenile series.
		In Heinlein's retelling of the classic story of Job, Alexander Hergensheimer walks through a Polynesian fire pit, and is thrust from world to world in a test of his faith.
		This is a short obituary, giving an overview of Heinlein's career and a listing of a few of his early novels.
	www.nd.edu /~abales/heinlein.html (2649 words)

	Quotable Heinlein Discussion Boards - "Half a MInd?"
		He was familiar with Samuel Renshaw and his tachistoscope, which demonstrated that people could recognize objects and words and letters and numerals and grasp them much more quickly than originally thought.
		He mentioned it in "Gulf," and we know that Captain Gilead/Joe Greene, his hero, learned to use much more of his already-exceptional mental capacity by such training and also by learning the newspeak language that was developed from the 64 principal sounds the human can make.
		I was thinking of Gulf when I wrote the question.
	www.quotableheinlein.com /dcforum/DCForumID15/59.html (193 words)

	Future History series - Robert A. Heinlein
		In the thirty years between the first story's publication and Americans walking on the Moon, many of Heinlein's futuristic concepts became part of the everyday mental furniture of forward-looking people, including the teenagers and scientists and engineers and politicians and military men and voters and taxpayers who made happen the American space program.
		Some titles originally charted by Heinlein but never written are set during a period of religious dictatorship; he likely found these plots too negative to enjoy developing.
		Heinlein was careful to point out that his chart notes were science fictional background, not predictions.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Heinlein/Future-History.html (1480 words)

	Amazon.com: Assignment In Eternity: Books: Robert A. Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This was an idea Heinlein would return to in much greater depth (and much better written) in The Number of the Beast, the first of the 'World-as-Myth' books.
		These stories are certainly not the best things Heinlein ever wrote, but there is surprisingly little dating to them other than the cultural attitudes of the day, and they still entertaining and in some cases very thought provoking.
		Recommended for any Heinlein fan looking to see what he was capable of during his 'early' period outside of the Future History, and good for anyone who enjoys science fiction.
	www.amazon.com /Assignment-Eternity-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0671578650 (2549 words)

	Gulf-Friday Universe
		This wasn't the first time Heinlein's writing attentions had returned to that universe [There is an unpublished series of TV scripts, a treatment, and outlines written circa 1963 for "Century XXII" that dealt with the Gulf universe.]; but it was the first time anything that resulted was published.
		As demonstrated in your original post, your knowledge of Heinlein and his works [e.g., thinking that his "if this goes on" satire of contemporary California was actually something he was advocating] is so deficient as to actually prevent David from engaging in "debate", lest he be accused of child abuse.
		I've suggested before that Heinlein modeled this Gulf revisited on Candide: who is the advisor, the mentor of Candide: Pangloss, the one who puts a "gloss" on the world, who has an easy answer, so it seems, for everything.
	www.heinleinsociety.org /readersgroup/AIM_03-20-2003.html (17000 words)

	Swans Commentary: What Is Science Fiction?, by Milo Clark - mgc176
		Heinlein notes completed works and suggests titles to come.
		Virginia Heinlein, wife, writes in the 1991 "Original Uncut Version" of Stranger in a Strange Land, first published in a truncated version in 1961, that Gulf was a story for which Heinlein sketched notes later to emerge as Stranger.
		I hope he is equally accurate about the coming of a mature culture in the 2100s.
	www.swans.com /library/art12/mgc176.html (819 words)

	Science Fiction Prophecy
		In fact, Heinlein only used the MacDonald byline during a very prolific period in 1941 and 1942, so while "Gulf" does indeed appear in this issue, it's by Heinlein and not by MacDonald.
		This prophesied story came to pass, and like those by Heinlein and Sturgeon it's among the author's best -- which is a pleasant observation given that (if you want to be cynical) Campbell might have been inclined to accept anything by these authors that had the required title!
		This it certainly is -- and indeed it's remarkably similar in theme to Heinlein's "Gulf" in the same issue (i.e.
	www.andrew-may.com /asf/prophecy.htm (875 words)

	Quotable Heinlein Discussion Boards - "Heinlein Again Ahead of His Time?"
		I do see that there will be an awful lot of changes proceeding from that if it does happen, most of them not even considered by most people and the government.
		Willis, Al yes, heinlein is fiction - but some of his ideas display a great deal of sense, and the crazier our modern days are getting, the more sense they make- for instance, group marriages - to me that makes a wonderful kind of sense.
		Anyhow - there would always be someone who could be with the children - no need for daycare, etc. There are many ways that could be worked out where adults who absolutely must work (or loose minds) could work without the guilt of not being a stay-at-home mom.
	www.quotableheinlein.com /dcforum/DCForumID16/26.html (4341 words)

	heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I only know that when I heard on the news that he'd passed away back in May of 1988, I cried.
		I fell in love with Lazarus Long in "Methuselah's Children" and have worn out three copies of " Time Enough For Love." "The Number of the Beast," "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" and "To Sail Beyond the Sunset " are all part of a universe I wish we lived in.
		I've read every one of his books and have an almost complete collection of Heinlein's works, thirty-six novels and short story collections and not a sour note in the entire symphony.
	members.fortunecity.com /tirpetz/authorpages/heinlein/heinlein.htm (467 words)

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