Monday, January 30, 2012

About Robert A. Heinlein


Robert A. Heinlein



born                                      July 07, 1907 in Butler, MO, The United States

died
May 08, 1988

genre                                     Science Fiction & Fantasy, Children's Books

influences
H. G. Wells, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling...more



Robert Anson Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. 

No comments:

Post a Comment