Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) was an American science fiction writer in the twentieth century.

Robert A. Heinlein in Worldwar
Long before the arrival of the Race's Conquest Fleet in 1942, Robert A. Heinlein had envisioned and realistically portrayed several fully-formed extraterrestrial societies in his novels and short stories. He continued writing after the Race's arrival, though his genre's popularity dropped off.

Sam Yeager was a fan of Heinlein's writings, as was G. Gordon Liddy. Yeager attributed his ability to deal with members of the Race as people with a mental flexibility given to him by his readings of Heinlein. When Yeager became the first Tosevite to set foot on Home in 2031, he honored Heinlein by preceding his first step with "This is for everyone who saw it coming before it happened"--including imaginative sci-fi writers like Heinlein.

Heinlein and fellow writer Theodore Sturgeon were photographed with Yeager in the 1950s.

Robert A. Heinlein in Earthgrip
Robert A. Heinlein's work, while ancient and written in a long dead-language, was still quite popular on Earth. A field of study had developed, devoted to comparing the works of Heinlein and his colleagues with the realities of space travel.

Jennifer Logan, an expert in Middle English, enjoyed Heinlein's works. Heinlein's short story "The Man Who Sold the Moon" once gave Logan the inspiration she needed to design an illusion that allowed the G'Bur T'Kai civilization to defeat the M'Sak barbarians.