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Author
Robert A. Heinlein
1907–1988
Robert A. Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907 and died in California in 1988. He studied at the United States Naval Academy and served in the Navy until he had to leave it for health reasons. He began publishing stories in science fiction magazines in the late thirties and soon became one of the most important names in the genre.
Starship Troopers, from 1959, follows a young recruit in a war against an alien species, and is also a novel of ideas about duty and citizenship that still sparks arguments today. Stranger in a Strange Land, from 1961, tells of the arrival on Earth of a human raised on Mars, who looks at our customs with entirely fresh eyes.
Both won the Hugo Award, in 1960 and 1962. Heinlein wrote with pace and without fear of controversy: his books read fast and give you plenty to think about.
Their books in our catalogue
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Starship TroopersRobert A. Heinlein
Starship TroopersRobert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
Johnny Rico leaves school behind to join the Mobile Infantry, in a future where only those who serve the Federation earn the vote. Between brutal training and an interstellar war against the Arachnids, the novel weaves in classroom debates on citizenship, duty and force. A brisk, influential coming-of-age story that still sparks argument, best read with a questioning mind.
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Stranger in a Strange LandRobert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange LandRobert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Valentine Michael Smith was born on Mars and raised by Martians, and when he reaches Earth as a young man, everything human puzzles him: faith, money, desire, politics. Heinlein uses that outsider's gaze to turn his era's habits upside down, with irony, long conversations and a stream of provocative ideas. Once a scandal and later a counterculture touchstone, it is a novel that still sparks argument.
