Robert A. Heinlein

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Name: Robert Anson Heinlein
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Occupation: Author
Medium: print
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Fan Website(s): The Heinlein Society, Archived version
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Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author. He is often considered as one of the Big Three of the Golden Age of English-speaking Science Fiction, alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. He also was a writer for various episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Heinlein coined the term to grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land.

In 1994, a crater on Mars was named after Heinlein.[1]

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Conventions

Heinlein was a Guest of Honor at a number of conventions including:

  • Worldcon 3 - Denvention I (1941)
  • Worldcon 19 - Seacon (1961)
  • Worldcon 34 - MidAmeriCon (1976)
  • Space-Con 3 (1977)
  • Worldcon 66 - Denvention 3 (2008) [as posthumous "Ghost of Honor"]


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