The Year of the Jackpot (1980)
“Heinlein (1907–1988) is by acclamation the most important and originating science fiction writer in the history of a genre marked by the first issue of Amazing Science Fiction in April 1926. Heinlein, a 1929 graduate of the Naval Academy, served during peacetime in command posts, contracted tuberculosis, was involuntarily retired in the mid-thirties and first became involved unsuccessfully in California politics as a disciple of Upton Sinclair. Failing to achieve electoral office, he wrote an u...npublished polemical novel (published posthumously as a curiosity) and then turned to science fiction. Within less than three years after his first publication in Astounding (“Lifeline,” July 1939) he stood alone as the most successful and respected science fiction writer in the history of the genre. Early novels such as Methusaleh’s Children and Sixth Column appeared in Astounding along with memorable stories like “By His Bootstraps,” “Universe,” “Blowups Happen” and “The Roads Must Roll.”MoreLess
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