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Heinlein

[hahyn-lahyn]

noun

  1. Robert A(nson), 1907–1988, U.S. science-fiction writer.



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Grok is a term coined by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land.

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Clean and uncorrupted, he’s not that different from a hero out of Robert A. Heinlein.

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Heinlein said the next step is to provide detailed land descriptions to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

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His intentions and form are old-school — echoing the work of Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov, among others — but his subject matter and cultural attitudes are utterly au courant.

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Le Guin thought midcentury science fiction — of the sort written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, two more writers lavishly admired by Mr. Musk and Mr. Bezos — had lost track of Mrs. Brown.

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