Posts tagged with 'Robert A. Heinlein'

• POSTED ON: May 26, 2016
  FILED UNDER: Books, Throwback Thursday
  TAGS: Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction

  Books, Throwback Thursday

  Throwback Thursday: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

  By Oliver Johnson

  

  This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of one of the last, seminal works of the Golden Age of Science Fiction: Robert A Heinlein’s 1966 Hugo Award-winning masterpiece. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is an account of the Lunar Colony revolt against Terran overlords. As in much of Heinlein’s work, the science in this novel is a portal for debate about society and man’s place in it, his ethical responsibilities as a citizen and whether a perfect society can be created from human imperfection.

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• POSTED ON: June 25, 2015
  FILED UNDER: Books
  TAGS: Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction

  Books

  Robert A. Heinlein: A Retrospective

  By Oliver Johnson

  

  Few science fiction writers have divided opinion so widely as Robert A. Heinlein. Along with Asimov and Clarke, he was one of the trio of Golden Age authors who in the 40s took the genre out of the pulp arena into one of literary high seriousness. Of the trio, many see Heinlein as the most influential as his novels about future worlds were free of jargon and written in a colloquially familiar manner. Of this three-way pantheon, Heinlein stands as the ‘dean of science fiction’ probably because of the prescriptive nature of much of his writing from the middle period onwards, in which father figures take the heroes of each book in hand and guide their spiritual and political evolution.

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• POSTED ON: June 24, 2015
  FILED UNDER: Competition
  TAGS: Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction

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  Win a set of our new Robert A. Heinlein reissues!

  By Fleur Clarke

  

  We’re proud as punch to be re-issuing Robert A. Heinlein’s classic science fiction novels with fancy new jackets, and we’re celebrating with a giveaway.

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• POSTED ON: March 19, 2015
  FILED UNDER: Books, Throwback Thursday
  TAGS: Classics, Robert A. Heinlein, Throwback Thursday

  Books, Throwback Thursday

  Throwback Thursday: Starship Troopers

  By Oliver Johnson

  

  For Throwback Thursday, we invited Associate Publisher Oliver Johnson to talk about Robert A. Heinlein’s classic, controversial novel Starship Troopers. Here’s what he had to say…

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