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Lyon, Charles W.
MacDonald, Leslyn (second wife)
alcoholism of
Gerstenfeld, RAH and
health problems of
lawsuit threat
Lookout Mountain house of RAH and
poison-pen letters
psychological problems
separation and divorce from RAH–7
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SP)
“Magic, Inc.” (RAH)
Mailer, Norman
The Man from Mars (RAH). See also Stranger in a Strange Land
“The Man Who Sold the Moon” (RAH)
“The Man Who Traveled in Elephants” (RAH)
“The Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail” (RAH)
Manson, Charles
The Martian Named Smith (RAH)
Marxism
Maureen Johnson: An Irregular Autobiography of a Somewhat Irregular Lady (RAH)
McCauley, Kirby
McCrary, Robert
McMorris, William
McNelly, Willis E.
McWilliams, Carey
Medusa lithograph
Men Into Space
“The Menace from Earth” (RAH)
Merril, Judith
Methuselah’s Children (RAH)
Miller, P. Schuyler
Mills, Bob
Mines, Sam
Minton, Walter
“Misfit” (RAH)
Mississippi Bubble
Montgomery, Albert L.
Moom Pitcher
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (RAH)
“Moonquake”
Moore, Catherine L.
Moskowitz, Sam
Mullen, Stanley
Murrow, Edward R.
National Rare Blood Club
banquet
Nebula Awards
New American Library
New Deal
Nietzsche, F. W.
Niven, Larry
The Mote in God’s Eye
Nixon, Richard
“No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying” (RAH)
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
Norton, Andre
“The Notebooks of Lazarus Long” (RAH)
“Nothing Ever Happens…” (television script)
“Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon” (RAH)
Nourse, Alan E.
Ntuli
nuclear weapons and war
The Number of the Beast (RAH)
Ocean Rancher (RAH)
O’Hanlon, James
Omni magazine
“On the Writing of Speculative Fiction” (RAH)
“Ordeal in Space” (RAH)
Orphans of the Sky (RAH)
Outward Bound (RAH)
Pal, George
“Pandora’s Box” (RAH)
The Panki-Barsoom Number of the Beast (RAH)
Panshin, Alexei
Heinlein in Dimension
Parsons, Jack
The Past Through Tomorrow (RAH)
Patrick Henry Campaign
Payne, John
Pearl Harbor
Pichel, Irving
Pine-Key Productions
“Planets in Combat” (RAH)
Playboy
Podkayne Fries: Her Life and Times. See Podkayne of Mars
Podkayne of Mars (RAH)
Pohl, Frederik
politics. See also Heinlein, Robert Anson, politics; specific political topics
South American
“Politics of Patriotism” (RAH)
“Poor Daddy” (RAH)
Pope, Richard
Popular Mechanics
pornography
Porter, Katherine Anne
Pournelle, Jerry
The Mote in God’s Eye
Powers, Gary
“The Pragmatics of Patriotism” (RAH)
“‘Pravda’ Means ‘Truth’” (RAH)
progressivism
Project Moonbase
“Project Nightmare” (RAH)
pulp magazines. See also specific pulp magazines
The Puppet Masters (film)
The Puppet Masters (RAH)
Putnam’s
race
Race, R. R., Blood Groups in Man
racism
RAH. See Heinlein, Robert Anson
Rathvon, N. Peter
“Ray Guns and Rocket Ships” (RAH)
Reagan, Ronald
“Rebellion on the Moon” (RAH)
Red Planet (RAH)
Reinsberg, Mark
religion
Republican Party
“Requiem” (RAH)
Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (RAH)
Revolt in 2100 (RAH)
Ricketts, Claude V.
right-wing. See also conservatism
“Ring Around the Moon” (RAH)
“The Roads Must Roll” (RAH)
Robert A. Heinlein Day (Butler, Missouri)
Robinson, Frank M. “Spider”
Rocket Ship Galileo (RAH)
The Rolling Stones (RAH)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rose, Innes
Sagan, Carl
Saint-Simon, Henri de
Samuelson, David
Sang, Grace Dugan “Cats”
Sang, Henry
Sanger, Margaret
Sanger, Ruth, Blood Groups in Man
“Satellite Scout” (RAH)
satires
Saturday Evening Post
Schaefer, Christopher
Schor, Lou
Schulman, J. Neil
Schwartz, Julius
science fiction. See also specific topics
fandom
Japanese
New Wave experimentation
science and
theory and criticism
science fiction conventions. See also World Science Fiction Conventions
science fiction magazines. See also specific science fiction magazines
“Science Fiction: The World of ‘What If?’” (RAH)
Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA)
scissorbill
Scithers, George
Scoles, Albert “Buddy”
Screen Gems
Scribner
SDI. See Strategic Defense Initiative
Seaman, Jack
“Searchlight” (RAH)
Sears, Hal
segregation and desegregation
Senior Prom
sex
SF Forum magazine
SFWA. See Science Fiction Writers of America
Shasta Press
Shoulder the Sky (RAH)
Signet
Simak, Clifford
Sinclair, Upton
Sixth Column (RAH)
“Sky Lift” (RAH)
slick magazines
Smith, Arthur George “Sarge”
Smith, E. E. “Doc”
socialism
South America
Soviet Union (USSR). See also Cold War
Heinlein trip to
nuclear weapons and war
SDI and
space program
Space Cadet (RAH)
space development
Space Development Conferences
space programs
speculative fiction. See also science fiction
“Spinoff” (RAH)
Sputnik
Stapledon, Olaf, Odd John
The Star Beast (RAH)
“The Star Clock” outline (RAH)
The Star Lummox (RAH)
Star Trek
Starlost
Starman Jones (RAH)
Starship Soldier (RAH)
“Starship Soldier” (RAH)
Starship Troopers (RAH)
state rights
Steele, D. H.
Stimson, Tom
Stine, G. Harry
Stover, Leon
Stranger in a Strange Land (RAH). See als
o The Man from Mars
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Sturgeon, Theodore “Ted”
Godbody–7
Swicegood, Tom
Sword & Sorcery genre
Symington, Stuart
Take Back Your Government! (RAH)
Talley, Truman
Tanner, Robert
Targ, William
television. See also Heinlein, Robert Anson, television writings, adaptations and programs
“A Tenderfoot in Space” (RAH)
Terrill, Rogers
That Dinkum Thinkum (RAH)
Theobald, Robert A.
“They” (RAH)
“This I Believe” (radio program)
“Three Brave Men” (RAH)
Three By Heinlein (RAH)
Thrilling Wonder Stories
Tilley, Lew
Time Enough for Love (RAH). See also Lazarus Long: Being the Memoirs of a Survivor
Time for the Stars (RAH)
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (RAH)
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
Tom Corbett comic book
Tomorrow, the Stars (RAH)
“The Tourist”
Tramp Royale (RAH)
“Tramp Space Ship” (RAH)
Trestrail, Verna
Trimble, Bjo
Truman, Harry S.
Tugwell, Rexford Guy
Tunnel in the Sky (RAH)
Twain, Mark
UCSC. See University of California, Santa Cruz
“The Unheavenly Twins” (RAH)
unions
United States (U.S.). See also Cold War; specific U.S. related topics
defense policy
foreign policy aggressiveness
nuclear weapons and war
space program
“Universe” (RAH)
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
RAH Archive
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (RAH)
U.S. See United States
“A U.S. Citizen Thinks About Canada” (RAH)
van Ronkel, Alford “Rip”
van Vogt, A. E.
Verne, Jules
Vertex, the Magazine of Science Fiction
Vicinanza, Ralph
Vietnam War
Voltaire, Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt
“Waldo” (RAH)
Waldo & Magic, Inc. (RAH)
Wallerstein, Harry
Warren, George A.
Watts, Alan
“We Also Walk Dogs” (RAH)
Welch, Robert
Wells, H. G.
Westercon
Westfahl, Gary
“Where to?” (RAH)
White, A. P. (“Anthony Boucher”)
Whorf, Benjamin
Williams, Robert Moore
Williamson, Jack
Wollheim, Donald A.
Wood, Eleanor
Wooster, Harold
World as Myth books (RAH)
The World Beyond (television series)
World Science Fiction Conventions
The World Snake (RAH)
World War II
postwar food rationing in England
Worldcon. See World Science Fiction Conventions
Worlds of If
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (RAH)
Wurtz, Grace Dugan. See Sang, Grace Dugan “Cats”
Wylie, Philip
Gladiator
Triumph (Beyond Armageddon)
Wyoming Schmidt: Notes for a Luna-Terra novel Feb. 1965 (RAH)
“The Year of the Jackpot” (RAH)
The Year of the Snake (RAH)
Zell, Tim
Part of the wartime Campbell social circle, around 1944. BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: John and Doña Campbell, Grace Dugan. FRONT ROW: Jerome Stanton and Theodore Sturgeon.
Courtesy of Grace Dugan Sang Wurtz.
The golden wedding anniversary of Rex and Bam Heinlein, 1949. LEFT TO RIGHT: Bam and Rex Ivar Heinlein, MJ Lermer, Louise Bacchus, Virginia Heinlein, Andy Lermer with son Andy.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert Heinlein with director Irving Pichel on the set of Destination Moon, 1949.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Virginia Heinlein with her Destination Moon scrapbook, around 1950.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Ted and Irene Carnell, June 1953.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Lurton Blassingame with his elk. Hunting trip with Robert Heinlein in 1956.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert Heinlein at work condensing Stranger in a Strange Land, 1960. The “baby coffin” (silencer housing) typewriter on his desk produced the manuscript.
Photograph by Virginia Heinlein; courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert Heinlein posing with the Starship Troopers Hugo Award with Arthur George “Sarge” Smith at Pittcon in 1960.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert and Ginny at the SeaCon masquerade, 1961. Heinlein described this one himself: “Ginny is ‘Vesta the Vegian’ from Doc Smith’s The Vortex Blaster. I am depending largely on green grease paint and crepe hair to create a Charles Addams horror: Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Extraordinary from Arcturus III.”
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert Heinlein with E. E. “Doc” Smith and his daughter Verna (Trestrail) Smith, around 1960.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert Heinlein at work on “Project Stonehenge” around 1961. The flowers in his hat are Ginny’s mark of approval.
Photograph by Virginia Heinlein; courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
“God in a yellow bathrobe”—Robert Heinlein with Judith Merril at his Chicon room party after receiving the Hugo Award for Stranger in a Strange Land, 1962.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Poul Anderson visits the Heinleins while construction is underway on the Bonny Doon house, 1967.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Bam Heinlein shortly before her death in 1976.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert and Virginia Heinlein relaxing on board Mariposa, 1973.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert Heinlein with Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague and Catherine de Camp. Poul Anderson is in the background (LEFT) with Norman Spinrad (CENTER), around 1976.
Courtesy of Jay K. Klein.
Robert and Virginia Heinlein with Ken Keller, chair of MidAmeriCon, 1976. Frank Robinson is seen in the background.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert and Virginia Heinlein at MidAmeriCon,1976.
Courtesy of Jay K. Klein.
Robert Heinlein giving blood at SunCon in 1977.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert and Virginia Heinlein at SunCon, talking with C. J. Cherryh (RIGHT) and Jerry Pournelle (CENTER), 1977.
Courtesy of Jay K. Klein.
Robert and Virginia Heinlein with Norman Spinrad and Fred Pohl at a SunCon room party, 1977.
Courtesy of Jay K. Klein.
Robert and Virginia Heinlein visiting with Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka, March 1980.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert Heinlein in the Bonny Doon house, after 1980.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Autographing, after 1980. Due to a series of illnesses affecting his balance, Heinlein could no longer stand to sign books. Ginny would write inscriptions for him so that he could give more autographs.
> Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Leon and Takeko Stover at U. C. Santa Cruz in 1984.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
A Citizens Advisory Council meeting, about 1984. RIGHT TO LEFT: Jerry Pournelle (STANDING), G. Harry Stine, Robert Heinlein, Dr. Phil Chapman (retired astronaut), Greg Bear, Jim Baen.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Robert Heinlein with “Honey”—Rita Berner Bottoms, July 6, 1987. This is one of the last pictures ever taken of Heinlein.
Courtesy of Rita Bottoms and Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
Virginia Heinlein at the dedication of the Robert and Virginia Heinlein Wing of the Butler Public Library, 1990.
Courtesy of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust.
ALSO BY WILLIAM H. PATTERSON, JR.
Robert A. Heinlein in Dialogue with His Century: Volume I, 1907–1948 Learning Curve
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
WILLIAM H. PATTERSON, JR., lives in San Francisco, California. He has published numerous articles and two books on the works of Robert A. Heinlein and is a frequent public speaker on Heinlein and his works.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN IN DIALOGUE WITH HIS CENTURY: VOLUME 2, 1948–1988 THE MAN WHO LEARNED BETTER
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