Robert A Heinlein In Dialogue With His Century Volume 2

Author : William H. Patterson, Jr.
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429987967

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Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2 by William H. Patterson, Jr. Pdf

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century: 1948-1988 The Man Who Learned Better: The real-life story of Robert A. Heinlein in the second volume of the authorized biography by William H. Patterson! Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) is generally considered the greatest American science fiction writer of the twentieth century. His most famous and widely influential works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress—all published in the years covered by this volume. He was a friend of admirals, bestselling writers, and artists; became committed to defending the United States during the Cold War; and was on the advisory committee that helped Ronald Reagan create the Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. Heinlein was also devoted to space flight and humanity's future in space, and he was a commanding presence to all around him in his lifetime. Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, the revelations in this biography make for riveting reading. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : William H. Patterson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780765319616

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Robert A. Heinlein, Vol 2 by William H. Patterson Pdf

A second volume in the authorized biography of the influential American science-fiction writer covers the period between 1948 and his death, discussing Heinlein's views on the Cold War, his contributions as an advisor to Ronald Reagan and the writing of such classic works as Stranger in a Strange Land. 20,000 first printing.

Author : William H. Patterson, Jr.
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0765319624

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Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 1 by William H. Patterson, Jr. Pdf

For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the USA in his later years. His most famous works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, he was both stranger and more interesting than one could ever have known. This is the first of two volumes of a major American biography. This volume is about Robert A. Heinlein's life up to the end of the 1940s and the mid-life crisis that changed him forever.

Author : William Hugh Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:752151400

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Robert A. Heinlein by William Hugh Patterson Pdf

Author : J. Neil Schulman
Publisher : Pulpless.Com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1584450150

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The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana by J. Neil Schulman Pdf

In 1975, Robert A. Heinlein was sixty-six, at the height of his literary career; J. Neil Schulman was twenty and hadn't yet started his first novel. Because he was looking for a way to meet his idol, Schulman wangled an assignment from the New York Daily News--at the time the largest circulation newspaper in the U.S.--to interview Heinlein for its Sunday Book Supplement. The resulting taped interview lasted three-and-a-half hours. This turned out to be the longest interview Heinlein ever granted, and the only one in which he talked freely and extensively about his personal philosophy and ideology. "The Robert Heinlein Interview" contains Heinlein you won't find anywhere else--even in Heinlein's own "Expanded Universe." If you wnat to know what Heinlein had to say about UFO's, life after death, epistemology, or libertarianism, this interview is the only source available. Also included in this collection are articles, reviews, and letters that J. Neil Schulman wrote about Heinlein, including the original article written for The Daily News, about which the Heinleins wrote Schulman that it was, "The best article--in style, content, and accuracy--of the many, many written about him over the years." This book is must-reading for any serious student of Heinlein, or any reader seeking to know him better.

Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher : New English Library
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : 0450040054

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The Past Through Tomorrow by Robert Anson Heinlein Pdf

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216142348

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Science Fiction Literature through History [2 volumes] by Gary Westfahl Pdf

This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field.

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2067 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216157984

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Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] by Linda De Roche Pdf

This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466870482

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Author : Christopher M. Gleason
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780197659144

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American Poly by Christopher M. Gleason Pdf

The first history of polyamory, this work examines the roots of sexual non-monogamy in political thought and countercultural spiritualism and traces its path to mainstream practice and cultural discussion today. Recent studies have found that as many as one in five Americans have experimented with some form of sexual non-monogamy, and approximately one in fifteen knows someone who was or is polyamorous. Although gathering statistics on polyamorous people is challenging, there has clearly been a growing interest in and normalization of relationship practices defined by emotional intimacy and romantic love among multiple people. Over the past decade, the mainstream media has increasingly covered polyamorous lifestyles and the committed relationships of throuples, and popular dating apps have added polyamory as a status option. This book is the first history to trace the evolution of polyamorous thought and practice within the broader context of American culture. Drawing on personal journals and letters, underground newsletters, and publications from the Kinsey Institute Archives, among other sources, it reconstructs polyamory's intellectual foundations, highlighting its unique blend of conservative political thought and countercultural spiritualism. Christopher M. Gleason locates its early foundations in the Roaring Twenties among bohemians. In the 1950s and 1960s it surprisingly emerged among libertarian science fiction writers. The next wave of polyamorists belonged to countercultural communities that rejected traditional Christianity; some were neo-Pagans and New Age tantric practitioners who saw polyamory as intrinsic to their spirituality. During the 1980s polyamory developed as a coherent concept, faced backlash from conservatives, and tried to organize into a social and political movement with a national network. Throughout the 1990s, polyamorists utilized the internet to spread their ideas, often undermining any remaining religious or spiritual significance their ideas held. Polyamory now encompasses a diverse set of people, from those with libertarian leanings seeking unlimited freedom from government interference in their consensual partnerings to those who pursue legal recognition of their relationships, especially issues revolving around children. Offering an original perspective on sexuality, marriage, and the family, American Poly reveals the history of polyamory in the United States from fringe practice to a new stage of the sexual revolution.

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476686592

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The Stuff of Science Fiction by Gary Westfahl Pdf

While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in science fiction of recent centuries. Based on a packet of original essays that the author assembled for his classes, the book could serve as a supplemental textbook in science fiction classes, but also contains material of interest to science fiction scholars and others devoted to the genre. In some cases, chapters offer thorough surveys of numerous works involving certain subjects, such as imagined vehicles, journeys beneath the Earth and undersea adventures, discovering intriguing patterns in the ways that various writers developed their ideas. When comprehensive coverage of ubiquitous topics such as robots, aliens and the planet Mars is impossible, chapters focus on major themes referencing selected texts. A conclusion discusses other science fiction subjects that were omitted for various reasons, and a bibliography lists additional resources for the study of science fiction in general and the topics of each chapter.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101503089

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I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

The brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant from New York Times bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein. As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's awesome masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything. Even a new life in the body of a beautiful young woman. Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delievers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction.

Author : Alexander C.T. Geppert,Daniel Brandau,Tilmann Siebeneichner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349958511

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Militarizing Outer Space by Alexander C.T. Geppert,Daniel Brandau,Tilmann Siebeneichner Pdf

Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and vio​lence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking ​European Astroculture trilogy, ​Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.

Author : William H. Patterson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429964852

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Robert A. Heinlein: Volume I by William H. Patterson Pdf

For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the USA in his later years. His most famous works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, he was both stranger and more interesting than one could ever have known. This is the first of two volumes of a major American biography. This volume is about Robert A. Heinlein's life up to the end of the 1940s and the mid-life crisis that changed him forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Frederic Krome
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475869538

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New Approaches in Teaching History by Frederic Krome Pdf

"This book provides readers with a justification for using science fiction films and texts as a primary source for teaching history"--