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Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein was one of the giants of 20th century science fiction literature and a peer of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke. Though he strongly influenced the direction of postwar science fiction in movies and television, none of the books for which he was most famous were ever adapted to the screen, except in the most superficial manner. Born in Butler, MO, Robert Anson Heinlein was the son of an accountant. As a boy he was fascinated by astronomy and was an avid chess player who ... showed remarkable abilities in mathematics. He attended the University of Missouri for one year before entering the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, ML, in 1925. He was commissioned an ensign upon graduation in 1929, and he later served on the carrier U.S.S. Lexington and the destroyer U.S.S. Roper.
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Details: "Robert A. Heinlein" is Nitrozac's 35th paintng of her Painting Blog. It's an acrylic painting, on 4 x 5 inch canvas panel. The painting will be dry and ready to ship after the auction ends. The back of the painting will contain the title, the date painted, Nitrozac's signature, and a fingerprint for authenticity.
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DESCRIPTION: Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein would have turned 100 today. The author of Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Heinlein grokked science fiction and is considered by many to be one of the giants of the genre, along with Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. Heinlein was the winner of an unprecedented four Hugo Awards and was the first writer of science fiction to have his work published in general interest magazines; he won the Science Fiction Writers of America's first Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.
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Verne dreamed, but Robert A. Heinlein had a waking vision. He saw a human future, a future that lived and breathed and propagated and flourished as if all on its own, and not as the result of a half-century of hard work, praise and rejection. Heinlein saw a vital, viable future in which people meet and recognize their own descendants of body and mind, of invention and aspiration.
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Robert A. Heinlein is the third, and most important, of the three supernovas to hit the SF field. He appeared in 1939 with the publication of his story "Lifeline". In 1941 he was guest of honor at the World Science Fiction Convention in Denver. In essentially zero time, he went from being unpublished to being the dominant writer in the field. Nobody else will ever be this important in the field again, because there's now just too much of the field around for any one person to dominate the way Heinlein did.
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When Robert A. Heinlein opened his Colorado Springs newspaper on April 5, 1958, he read a full-page ad demanding that the Eisenhower administration stop testing nuclear weapons. The science-fiction author was flabbergasted.
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