Robert Anson Heinlein (7 Juli 1907 – 8 Mei 1988) adalah salah satu penulis paling berpengaruh dan kontroversial dalam genre fiksi ilmiah. Dia menjadi penulis fiksi ilmiah pertama yang berhasil diterima majalah umum besar pada tahun 1940-an dengan fiksi-fiksi ilmiah murni, dan fiksi ilmiah panjang yang menjadi bestseller pada tahun 1960-an.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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 Heinlein saat memberikan tanda tangannya pada Worldcon 1976. |
| Lahir | (1907-07-07)7 Juli 1907
Butler, Missouri, AS |
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| Meninggal | 8 Mei 1988(1988-05-08) (umur 80)
Carmel, California, AS |
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| Nama pena | Anson McDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York |
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| Pekerjaan | Novelis, penulis cerita pendek, esai, dan sandiwara |
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Tutup
Tema-tema utama dalam karya Heinlein adalah sosial: individualisme yang radikal, libertarianisme, agama, hubungan antara cinta fisikal dan emosional, dan spekulasi mengenai hubungan keluarga yang tak biasa.
Novel
Novel-novel yang ditandai * umumnya dianggap sebagai novel dewasa, meski beberapa karyanya tidak bisa diklasifikasikan dengan mudah.
- For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939)
- Methuselah's Children (1941)
- Beyond This Horizon (1942)
- Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) *
- Space Cadet (1948) *
- Red Planet (1949) *
- Sixth Column atau The Day After Tomorrow (1949)
- Farmer in the Sky (1950) *
- Between Planets (1951) *
- The Rolling Stones atau Space Family Stone (1952) *
- The Puppet Masters (1951)
- Double Star (1956)
- Starman Jones (1953) *
- The Star Beast (1954) *
- Tunnel in the Sky (1955) *
- Time for the Stars (1956) *
- Citizen of the Galaxy (1957) *
- The Door into Summer (1957)
- Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958) *
- Starship Troopers (1959) *
- Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
- Podkayne of Mars (1963) *
- Glory Road (1963)
- Farnham's Freehold (1965)
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
- I Will Fear No Evil (1970)
- Time Enough For Love (1973)
- The Number of the Beast (1980)
- Friday (1982)
- Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
- The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
- To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
Fiksi pendek
Fiksi pendek "Future History"
- Life-Line (1939)
- Misfit (1939)
- The Roads Must Roll (1940)
- Requiem (1940)
- "If This Goes On—" (1940)
- Coventry (1940)
- Blowups Happen (1940)
- Solution Unsatisfactory (1940)
- Universe (1941)
- We Also Walk Dogs (1941)
- Common Sense (1941)
- Methuselah's Children (1941)
- Logic of Empire (1941)
- Space Jockey (1947)
- It's Great to Be Back! (1947)
- The Green Hills of Earth (1947)
- Ordeal in Space (1948)
- The Long Watch (1948)
- Gentlemen, Be Seated (1948)
- The Black Pits of Luna (1948)
- Delilah and the Space Rigger (1949)
- The Man Who Sold the Moon (1951)
Fiksi pendek lainnya
- Waldo (1940)
- They (1941)
- "–And He Built a Crooked House–" (1941)
- By His Bootstraps (1941)
- Lost Legacy (1941)
- Elsewhen (1941)
- The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942)
- Magic, Inc. (1942)
- Jerry Was a Man (1947)
- Our Fair City (1948)
- Gulf (1949)
- The Menace From Earth (1957)
- The Man Who Traveled in Elephants (1957)
- "–All You Zombies–" (1959)
- Searchlight (1962)
- Free Men (1966)
Koleksi
- The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
- Waldo & Magic, Inc. (1950)
- The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
- Orphans of the Sky (1951)
- Assignment in Eternity (1953)
- Revolt in 2100 (1953)
- The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1958)
- The Menace from Earth (1959)
- The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959)
- Three by Heinlein (1965)
- A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966)
- The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
- The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
- The Best of Robert A. Heinlein (1973)
- Expanded Universe (1980)
- A Heinlein Trio (Doubleday, 1980) - The Puppet Masters, Double Star, dan The Door Into Summer
- The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
Non-fiksi
- Grumbles from the Grave (1989)
- Take Back Your Government: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen (1992)
- Tramp Royale (1992)
Spinoff
- The Notebooks of Lazarus Long oleh D.F Vassallo (1978)
- Fate's Trick oleh Matt Costello (1988)
- Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992)
Filmografi
- Destination Moon (1950)
- Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950)
- Project Moon Base (1953)
- The Brain Eaters (1959)
- Red Planet (1994)
- Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (1994)
- Starship Troopers (1997)
- Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999)
