And again, like 2001, it had a towering science fiction writer as its adviser: Robert Heinlein, one of the fathers of modern sci-fi.

和《2001》一样，本片也有一位宗师级的科幻作家充当幕后推手：罗伯特·海因莱因，现代科幻的开山鼻祖之一。

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Lazy like a fox. Or, as Robert Heinlein famously wrote of one of his characters, too lazy to fail.

像狐狸一样懒惰，或许如同罗伯特·海因莱茵[1]笔下那个著名的人物一样——太懒了，才不会失败。

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Bill Nye, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein: it makes sense that Nye, a lover of all things science, would choose this science fiction classic as his favorite read.

比尔·奈伊最喜爱的一本书是《异乡异客》，作者是罗伯特·海因莱因：奈伊选择这本书的原因是很显而易见的。作为科幻发烧友，这本经典科幻小说当然会是他的最爱。

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

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

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