Robert A. Heinlein

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.

Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein saat memberikan tanda tangannya pada Worldcon 1976.
Lahir	(1907-07-07)7 Juli 1907 Butler, Missouri, AS
Meninggal	8 Mei 1988(1988-05-08) (umur 80) Carmel, California, AS
Nama pena	Anson McDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York
Pekerjaan	Novelis, penulis cerita pendek, esai, dan sandiwara

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.

Bibliografi

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)

Pranala luar

• (Inggris) The Heinlein Society dan halaman FAQ Diarsipkan 2019-04-22 di Wayback Machine. mereka.
• (Inggris) Robert & Virginia Heinlein Prize
• (Inggris) Robert A. Heinlein, Grandmaster Fiksi Ilmiah