Anyone know of Robert A. Heinlein?

[Alefyon]

He's my favorite author (Science-Fiction) But my town's library is small and there's not to many books by him there >_>

EDIT: And I'm new here, if you hadn't noticed. lol

[geekerati]

Yes, he is awesome. My brothers wife has tons of his books and every know and then I'll borrow one. How many has he written?

[Andylkl]

Hmmm... I've only heard of his name, haven't touched his books yet. :P

[fred.mil.com]

When I was a kid, I used to read his books, or should I say "devour" his books.
I remember to once spend all night reading Star Beast because I was completely addicted to the plot.

By the way, he wrote 44 science fiction books and 3 non-fiction books.
Among the science fiction books he wrote is Starship Troopers, of Holywood fame...

Fred

[emlprime]

Gah,

Starship Troopers, the movie, was an awful adaptation. It covered about 3 pages of the book and didn't include the awesome mechanized infantry armor.

His books are great. I'd suggest reading about 4 or 5. I like

Stranger in a Strange Land
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Starship Troopers
Time Enough for Love

After more than that, you start to feel like he's repeating himself. Also he has a tendency to soapbox. It gets distracting after a while.

Still, quality science fiction. He has very interesting views on alternate sociologies.

[rebbetzin]

span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);"font size="4"span style="font-family: Verdana;"yes, i'm familiar with robert heinlein. he wrote the very first scifi book i ever read, though i cannot remember the name of it now. i'm sure i'll remember it at 3:30 in the morning. my favorite book of his, like so many others of my generation, is stranger in a strange land. i think that book must have been in just about every backpack in the land during the eary-mid seventies.brshalom,brrebbetzinbroh, i just remembered! it was called something like podcar of Mars! sound familiar , anyone?br/span/font/span