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Robert Anson Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907, in Butler, Missouri, United States.
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Read by Rob McQuay From a master of science fiction comes eight startling stories of time and space. In ''The Year of the Jackpot,'' a statistician charts a curve of unusual happenings throughout the earth, only to find that his facts and figures prove the approach of the end of the world. In ''By His Bootstraps,'' a man steps thirty thousand years into time and is trapped in the fourth dimension with three strange, yet oddly familiar, people. In ''Goldfish Bowl,'' people disappear one by one, in great swirling balls of fire, and are held captive in space by beings of vastly superior intelligence. Also in this collection of short stories originally published in 1959 are ''Columbus Was a Dope,'' ''The Manace from Earth,'' ''Sky Lift,'' ''Project Nightmare,'' and ''Water Is for Washing.''
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Robert Anson Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907, in Butler, Missouri, United States.
He studied at the University of Missouri and the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis.
To survive a living, he took up various jobs including in real estate sales and silver mining.
With Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, he is considered one of the "big three" of science fiction writers.
"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" (1966) is a vivid story of the Moon colonists' revolt against Earth, featuring one of the most plausible computer intelligences in science fiction.
"Friday" (1982) is the story of a genetically engineered superagent.
Heinlein is also the author of a dozen novels for young readers, among them "Red Planet" (1949), "Starman Jones" (1953), "Tunnel in the Sky" (1955), "Citizen of the Galaxy" (1957), and "Have Space Suit--Will Travel" (1958).
During the 1960's and 1970's, Heinlein became a best-selling author with long novels, among them "I Will Fear No Evil" (1970), "Time Enough for Love" (1973), and "The Number of the Beast" (1980).
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