- ID: 8527
- DATE: 2007-07-07
- TYPE: SPOTLIGHT
- TITLE: Robert A. Heinlein
- DESCRIPTION: Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein would have turned 100 today. The author of Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Heinlein grokked science fiction and is considered by many to be one of the giants of the genre, along with Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. Heinlein was the winner of an unprecedented four Hugo Awards and was the first writer of science fiction to have his work published in general interest magazines; he won the Science Fiction Writers of America's first Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.
