Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion Now Available

    With the recent publication of his compilation of facts about Heinlein's works, James Gifford has laid the foundations for many a Heinlein study. Several years' worth of careful research in Heinlein's papers, archived at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has not only yielded some solid information about Heinlein's oeuvre, it has also unearthed some surprises including information about writing methods, unfinished manuscript fragments, in-jokes and myths debunked. Gifford has also provided the reader with many tables, timelines, comparative notes, cross references and an official opus list. A must-read for fan and scholar alike. (Nitrosyncretic Press; $24, 281 pp.) Click here to purchase. -- Lizbeth Ager
(November 25, 2000)

Heinlein Society Formed

    Heinlein admirers are getting together to form the Heinlein Society, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to keeping Heinlein's works and ideas alive, and to furthering some causes to which Heinlein was sympathetic, such as blood drives, libraries and space exploration. Fully endorsed by the Heinlein estate, the group is gathering memebers and solidifying goals. For membership information, please consult the nascent web site at www.heinleinsociety.com. -- Lizbeth Ager

(November 24, 2000)

Story Characters based on Heinlein & Other SF Greats

    Last year, writers Michael Swanwick, Pat Murphy, Eileen Gunn and Andy Duncan wrote a round-robin SF story for "Event Horizon" online magazine entitled "Green Fire," about the Philadelphia Experiment. It features as main characters Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague De Camp and Grace Hopper. Now "Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" is publishing a revised version of that story in its April issue, at newsstands in the US during the month of March. Asimov's and the SciFi Channel will promote a March 28th on-line chat about the collaborative effort that resulted in that story, featuring the four authors and moderated by Gardner Dozois. --Carlos Angelo
(March 10th, 2000)

Another Heinlein Back in Print

    The Menace from Earth, one of Heinlein's out-of-print short fiction collections, which includes the classic on time-travel "By His Bootstraps," is back on bookstore shelves, this time as a mass market paperback from Pocket Books, 288 pages. You can order it from Amazon.com already by clicking here. --Carlos Angelo
(April 10th, 1999)

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress--the Movie

    Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, the same screenwriters for the movie Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters, are working with executive producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald at Dreamworks SKG on the development of a movie based on Heinlein's Hugo winning novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Let's wish them better luck in keeping this movie faithful to the book than they had with their last Heinlein screen adaptation. --Carlos Angelo
(March 21th, 1999)

Schulman's Heinlein Interview Now on Paper

    In 1973, J. Neil Schulman conducted a rather long interview with Heinlein for the New York Daily News, which he has been selling for the last few years along with some of his writings about Heinlein as an e-book called The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana. In that interview, Heinlein spoke openly and extensively about libertarianism (Schulman's pet interest), and several other topics such as UFOs, life after death, and epistemology. Heinlein also talked about some of his stories--in particular about The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Time Enough for Love, which had just been published.
    Now the book is finally being released in paper form and already can be bought through Amazon.com. It is a definite must-have for any fan who wants to know more about Heinlein's personal opinions and thinking. Check it out here. --Carlos Angelo
(March 6th, 1999)

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