Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of July 7th
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It is the 188th day of the year, leaving 177 days remaining in 2022.
He told stories of space, other beings, and future Earth in ways that explored themes of civic responsibility, liberty, sexuality, and nonconformist thought.
He wrote for children and adults. Along with a few other writers of his time, he helped bring science fiction into the mainstream.
With a university background in physics and mathematics, and work as a Naval engineer, Heinlein was painstaking about the accuracy -- or at least the plausibility -- of the science in his novels and short stories.
His first work was Life-Line, published in 1939 in Astounding Science Fiction. The story postulated that every person had a "world line," and by sending a signal along it and measuring its echo, one could determine a person's life span.
After serving in the Navy during World War II, Heinlein wrote the first of his so-called "future history" stories, The Green Hills of Earth. A crater on the moon was named after one of its characters. It tells the story of a man on a planetary expedition who wants to return to Earth, where he was born, because he knows he is dying.
Heinlein has won numerous awards, including being named the first "grand master" by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He won four Hugo Awards during his lifetime, for works such as Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. He also won seven Retro Hugos, and was nominated for six other Hugos and seven other Retro Hugos. (Retro Hugos, began in 1996, are awards for books published before 1939.)
Heinlein died in 1988 in California.
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