Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master
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Dr. Yoji Kondo, a NASA scientist who was instrumental in getting a crater on Mars named after Robert A. Heinlein and arranged for a Memorial Service at the Air and Space Museum, put together a collection of Heinlein writings (including his story “Requiem”) as well as tributes to the Grand Master, many of them from fellow writers who attended the Memorial Service. A must-read for all Heinlein fans.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), often called the Science Fiction Grand Master, was the author of such ground-breaking novels as STARSHIP TROOPERS, RED PLANET, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND and THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. He is generally considered the greatest and most influential science fiction writer of the twentieth century. In addition to being a bestselling author, Heinlein's novels won 4 Hugo awards, 3 "retro Hugo" awards, and the first "Grand Master Award" from the Science Fiction Writers of America.
"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world … [Heinlein] remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction."
- Stephen King
"There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein."
- Dean Koontz
"One of the most influential writers in American Literature."
- The New York Times Book Review
"Heinlein wears imagination as though it were his private suit of clothes."
- The New York Times
"Heinlein… has the ability to see technologies just around the bend. That, combined with his outstanding skill as a writer and engineer-inventor, produces books that are often years ahead of their time."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
"One of the grand masters of science fiction."
- The Wall Street Journal
“He rewrote U.S. SF as a whole in his own image. Robert A. Heinlein may have been the all-time most important writer of genre SF.”
- The Science Fiction Encyclopedia
“Heinlein’s work at its best epitomizes the excitement science fiction can generate by exploring the possible future adventures scientific knowledge and technology can open up for humanity.”
- Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers
“Robert Heinlein, as much as any writer while I was growing up, taught me to argue with the accepted version.”
- Samuel R. Delany
“The word that comes to mind for him is essential. As a writer—eloquent, impassioned, technically innovative—he reshaped science fiction in a way that defined it for every writer who followed him. … He was the most significant science fiction writer since H. G. Wells.”
- Robert Silverberg
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The New Collected Works portion of this memorial to Heinlein ( Stranger in a Strange Land ) is a delight. Best of these stories, essays and speeches are ``Shooting Destination Moon ,'' an essay on the movie that follows the story on which the film was based, and the prescient Guest of Honor speeches from the World Science Fiction Conventions of 1941 and 1961. Heinlein's contributions, while not necessarily representing his best work, are always thought-provoking and never boring. In contrast, the tributes by such luminaries as Tom Clancy, L. Sprague and Catherine Crook de Camp, Arthur C. Clarke and Spider Robinson offer tedious variations on adulation. The sole exception is Larry Niven's story ``The Return of William Proxmire,'' in which the senator blocks the space program with a time machine. He keeps Heinlein in the Navy and forestalls the body of writing that would influence many to pursue careers in space. Kondo is director of the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite observatory at Goddard Space Flight Center.
