This weekend is the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial celebrating 100 years since Heinlein's birth on 7/7/07. Those of us who cannot attend the celebration, surf. To that end, here is a big-@$$ collection of Robert A. Heinlein links...

REFERENCE

• SF author Michael Cassutt on the RAH Centennial.


• Wikipedia pages:
  • Robert A. Heinlein
  • Bibliography
  • List of Robert A. Heinlein characters


• RAH's page at Templeton Gate


• RAH's IMDB page.


• The Robert & Virginia Heinlein Prize.


• Some Heinlein quotation sites.


• Heinlein-related YouTube videos.


• Heinlein-related Google videos.

FICTION

• "All You Zombies" (Also: A spoliery explanation of the time-hopping)


• "And He Built a Crooked House"


• From Baen's webscriptions of The World Turned Upside Down: "The Menace from Earth".


• From Baen's webscriptions of Expanded Universe:
  • "Life-line"
  • "Successful Operation"
  • "Blowups Happen"
  • "Solution Unsatisfactory"
  • "The Last Days of the United States"


• Also at Baen's webscriptions, sample Farnham's Freehold and The Notebooks of Lazarus Long.

FICTION-RELATED

• A map of RAH's Future History


• An illustrated list of Heinlein fiction.


• Heinlein Book Cover Museum


• A gallery of Stranger in a Strange Land book covers.


• RAH Quiz: Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?


• Christopher Weuve's Thoughts on Starship Troopers


• Stromata looks at What Robert Heinlein Got Wrong.


• SF author John C. Wright reviews a slew of Heinlein books.

HEINLEIN SITES

• The Heinlein Society


• The Robert A. Heinlein site.


• We Grok It fan site, with sub-sections on books, essays and audio recordings by RAH.

ARTICLES/ESSAYS BY OR ABOUT HEINLEIN

• RAH's contribution to Edward R. Murrow's radio series This I Believe is a short essay called "Our Noble, Essential Decency".


• RAH: A Biographical Sketch by Bill Patterson.


• RAH's home is profiled in a 1952 issue of Popular Mechanics.


• "It's Great to be Back" by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer - intro to The Ascent of Wonder anthology.


• Heinlein's Guide to Computer Marketing by Curt Monash.


• "Heinlein Gets the Last Word" is Kurt Vonnegut's New York Times article on the literary importance of Heinlein and the uncut Stranger in a Strange Land (free registration required, or use our gift to you: username / password = heinlein100 / TANSTAAFL).

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday July 07, 2007 at 1:00 PM
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