Heinlein laid that out and it's a very interesting potential end point for this process from the implicit to the explicit social contract.
So Heinlein , Clarke, Asimov, that sort of thing.
Robert Heinlein ’s The Man Who Sold The Moon book that gave me the idea for planetary resources and Google Lunar XPRIZE.
I read Heinlein , and Arthur Clarke, and Asimov, and stuff like that.
I read some Heinlein , but I kind of came to Heinlein too late.
Because the first Heinlein I read, I was in my '20s and it was "Stranger in a Strange Land."
This problem was anticipated by Heinlein in 1963 when he wrote the book, "Stranger in a Strange Land."
And so my idols are Heinlein , and Clarke, and Asimov.
having read-- heard about how important Heinlein was.
Now we are supposedly moving toward what Heinlein prescribed as the explicit social contract.
it at me over the years about Robert Heinlein , the science fiction writers writer, who would say, "Well, you know,
was Asimov, Heinlein , and Clarke.
By the ti-- you kind of need to hit Heinlein when you're too young to see how it's dated.
There was a great circa 1950 science fiction movie called "Destination Moon," which Robert Heinlein was the advisor for.
And by the way, when Neal was invoking Heinlein , Clark, and Asimov-- the sort of Holy Trinity of hard SF, we're talking Golden Age AF.
And sort of a bridging between the Heinlein and the modern stuff, Joe Haldeman, one of my favorites.
Look, 2012 is the year that Robert Heinlein forecast in his "Future History" back in the 60s and 50s that America would be taken over by a fellow named, Nehemiah Scudder.
In terms of authors, I think my two biggest influences are Heinlein and Niven, although there's
There is, in fact, a kind of Heinlein -esque or self-styled Heinlein -esque individual building private space planes and things like that
And she grokked it, using the term grok from Robert Heinlein 's "Stranger in a Strange Land" to indicate that she really understood it.
And so when I was a kid growing up, it was Bradbury and Heinlein and Asimov.
Because that's the name of the AI in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," by Robert A. Heinlein .
in was genre was horror, science fiction, fantasy and so I grew up being inundated with Heinlein , Asimov, with Bradbury and when I was twelve it was King and King was king and