Awards & Winners

Robert A. Heinlein

Date of Birth 07-July-1907
Place of Birth Butler
(Bates County, Missouri, United States of America, Boone County)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein, Robert A. HeinLein, Robert A Heinlein, R.A. Heinlein, Heinlein, Robert A., Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York
Profession Writer, Politician, Science writer, Novelist, Author, Inventor, Screenwriter, Essayist
Quotes
  • You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
  • A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ...
  • Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.
  • Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
  • A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
  • To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
  • Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
  • Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
  • When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
  • Belief gets in the way of learning.
  • Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
  • A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
  • No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
  • Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
  • If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades, and he, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are often considered to be the "Big Three" of science fiction authors. A notable writer of science fiction short stories, Heinlein was one of a group of writers who came to prominence under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr. in his Astounding Science Fiction magazine—though Heinlein denied that Campbell influenced his writing to any great degree. Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought. He also speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices.

Awards by Robert A. Heinlein

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert A. Heinlein.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs

2003


Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Requiem

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Requiem

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Requiem

1998


Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Time Enough for Love

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Starship Troopers

1997


Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Methuselah's Children

1996


Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Red Planet

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Stranger in a Strange Land

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Related Work Grumbles from the Grave
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Grumbles from the Grave

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Award for Best Novel To Sail Beyond the Sunset

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel To Sail Beyond the Sunset

1987


Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Stranger in a Strange Land

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

1985


Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Honored for : Job: A Comedy of Justice

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Job: A Comedy of Justice
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Job: A Comedy of Justice

1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel Job: A Comedy of Justice

1983


Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Award for Best Novel Friday
Hugo Award for Best Novel Friday
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Friday

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel Friday

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The Number of the Beast

1974


Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Time Enough for Love
Locus Award for Best Novel Time Enough for Love

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel Time Enough for Love

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Novel I Will Fear No Evil

1967


Hugo Award for Best Novel
Honored for : The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

1966


Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Hugo Award for Best Novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series Future History

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Glory Road

1962


Hugo Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Stranger in a Strange Land

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Stranger in a Strange Land

1960


Hugo Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Starship Troopers

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Starship Troopers

1959


Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Have Space Suit\u2014Will Travel

1956


Hugo Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Double Star

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Double Star

1951


Retro Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
Honored for : Destination Moon
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella
Honored for : The Man Who Sold the Moon
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Farmer in the Sky

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel Farmer in the Sky
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella The Man Who Sold the Moon
Retro Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Destination Moon