Authors > Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein is universally recognized as a Grand Master and a Founding Father of American Science Fiction. Heinlein began his career writing for the emerging SF pulp fiction magazines in 1939 and published throughout 1940s. Many of his stories are loosely associated in what is his Future History series. His early works in were incredibly popular in pulp magazines like Astounding Stories.

During the 1950s, for eight consecutive Christmas seasons, a new Heinlein "Juvenuile/Young Adult" novel was published each year. Primarily in the Action and Adventure SF genre, these stories inspired a generation of young boys to become scientists, astronauts, engineers and life long science fiction fans.

During the 1960s Heinlein then transitioned to the Adult SF category and created a number of classics including four Hugo award winning novels. These ground breaking novels touched on serious social concepts including politics, religion, and sexuality which contributed to the turbulent decade's history.

Heinlein endured a serious health illness and long recovery during the 1970s which interrupted his writing career.

But, he was able to resume his writing career in the 1980s with five more novels returning to characters and ideas from his Future History series. His final novels were firmly rooted in the Speculative Fiction genre.

"Following World War II Robert A. Heinlein emerged as not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but as the greatest writer of such fiction in the world. He remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction." --- Stephen King