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so I've just begun to read some of Heinlein's short stories and have made my way through and he built a crooked house, all you zombies, and by his bootstraps. I don't really know much about SF literature, but I understand that Heinlein was associated with the golden age and hard science fiction. However after reading just these 3 short stories it doesn't seem like any reflect the nature of hard SF in which someone tries to predict the future by extrapolating from current technology or a mathematical/scientific idea. I'm familiar with his contrast to Clarkians, but I was wondering what short stories is he known for that come closer to that ideal....something like Waldo maybe? Thanks.


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I think you'll find his juveniles fit the bill in this respect (novels written for children), plus "The Door Into Summer".

Insert usual comment about envying someone in your position with so much "new" Heinlein yet to read.


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ill check out those short stories from the Past Through Tomorrow collection. I definitely see how he uses a lot of mathematical "what ifs" to form his stories which spring board him into a more fantastic plot. I'm actually writing an essay about the contribution Heinlein made to the science fiction community (though with limited texts) and am trying to see how his short stories either stood out from the time or supported it. I guess most of his work I'm looking at is between 1930s-1960s....which seems to generally fall between two types of writing with the new wave stuff becoming more prominent. Some of the other authors of the time I was looking to contrast his style with include Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Walter Miller, Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley. Don't get me wrong, I don't know them well, but it's just an idea.


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