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

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

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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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