Title:
Robert A. Heinlein : America as science fiction
JLCTITLE245:
H. Bruce Franklin.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
Physical Description:
ix, 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780195027464
9780195027471
Series:
General Note:
Includes index.
Abstract:
Franklin sees Heinlein as a central cultural phenomenon, expressing some of the deepest dreams and nightmares of a rapidly changing society.
Bibliography Note:
"Checklist of works by Robert A. Heinlein": p. 214-219.
Bibliography: p. 220-223.
Additional Physical Form Available:
Also issued online.
Contents:
Robert A. Heinlein: his time and place -- From Depression into World War II: the early fiction -- New frontiers: 1947-59. The last frontier: escape into space ; Fables for the youth of the fifties: the juvenile series ; For those with no exit ; The end of an era: Starship troopers, and "All you zombies--" -- A voice of the 1960s. Stranger in a strange land (1961) ; Podkayne of Mars (1962-63) ; Glory road (1963) ; Farnham's freehold (1964) ; "Free men" and, The moon is a harsh mistress (1965-66) -- The private worlds of the 1970s. I will fear no evil (1970) ; Time enough for love: The lives of Lazarus Long (1973) -- Apocalypse now: The number of the beast-- (1980).