Happy 100th to Heinlein!

Happy 100th birthday to the Grand Master himself, and one of my very favorite authors, Robert A. Heinlein. TANSTAAFL!

Recent articles:

* “'We must ride the lightning': Robert Heinlein and American spaceflight" by Dwayne A Day
* "In A Strange Land" by John J. Miller
* "Heinlein's Ghost" by Dwayne A. Day
* "Robert Heinlein at One Hundred" by Ted Gioia

For additional information:
The Heinlein Society
The Robert A. Heinlein Page
Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Website


And finally, I believe in my whole race—yellow, white, black, red, brown—in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability, and goodness of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth—that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth—but that we will always make it, survive, endure.

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets—to the stars and beyond—carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Off again!

Happy early birthday wishes to bouncybabylemur and fungus_files! May you both have fantastic days and wonderful years to come.

Here's one more Heinlein-related article new today: "100 Years of Heinlein" by Scott Van Wynsberghe

I'm off to UCLA to give four lectures as part of the Institute for Humane Studies' Cinematic & Literary Traditions of Liberty: A Workshop. I will be offline until Wednesday morning. I look forward to catching up with everyone soon.


"No, Jubal would not buy the 'just happened' theory, popular as it was with men who called themselves scientists. Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself."
- Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land