But when Robert Heinlein put a page and a half of ballistics calculations in his juvenile novels?

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"Starship Troopers" was adapted, by Ed Neumeier, from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 sci-fi novel of the same name.

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At first the movie takes an ironic stance toward Heinlein's angry militarism, with images of beautiful kids as blissed-out cannon fodder.

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For science-minded kids, the fictional worlds of Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke seemed more real than reality, and destined to replace it.

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Classic authors like Heinlein and Asimov were scientists and engineers as well as authors, and they tried to get the science right.

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Basically, I want to found the Long Range Foundation, as conceived of by Robert Heinlein in his book Time For the Stars.

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In the book, Heinlein posits a profession called Fair Witness.

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Science fiction is rife with intelligent, self-aware computers, from the benevolent "Mike" of Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress to the murderous HAL 9000 in Arthur C.

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And I was always impressed that Heinlein was very strict about the mathematics of his futures, to the point that he not only calcuated the ballistics of his spaceships, he went ahead and put his calculations in the book.

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