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This text offers a mix of wit and wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein on subjects ranging from crime and punishment to nuclearm power, from pragmatics of patriotism to post holocaust America; from the nature of courage to the nature of reality. ### Review "Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world." "There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein." "Robert Heinlein is America's acknowledged master of science fiction." "Heinlein knows more about blending provocative scientific thinking with strong human stories than any dozen other contemporary science fiction writers." "One of the grand masters of science fiction." ### About the Author Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to **Astounding** magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre. He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels **Stranger in a Strange Land** (1961), **Starship Troopers** (1959), **Double Star** (1956), and **The Moon is a Harsh Mistress** (1966). His **Future History** series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future. Robert A. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. By the time hed died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.