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Robert Anson Heinlein amerikai sci-fi-író, a hard science fiction egyik legnépszerűbb, legbefolyásosabb és egyben legvitatottabb írója volt. Széles körben elfogadhatóvá tette a tudományos és a műszaki témákat – ami keveseknek sikerült –, és segített a műfaj irodalmi színvonalának emelésében. Ő volt az első író, akinek – az 1940-es években – sikerült betörnie leplezetlenül sci-fi témájú művekkel olyan népszerű magazinokba, mint a Saturday Evening Post. Az első írók közt volt, akiknek sikerült bestseller sci-fi regényt írnia. Mindezekre utal az is, hogy Heinleint, Isaac Asimovot és Arthur C. Clarke-ot a science fiction „nagy hármasaként” tartják számon.Leggyakoribb témái társadalmi vonatkozásúak voltak: radikális individualizmus, libertarianizmus, vallás, a fizikai és érzelmi szeretet közti kapcsolat és spekulációk a liberális családi viszonyokról. Ezen témák iránt tanúsított ikonoklaszta hozzáállása vezetett ahhoz, hogy különböző művei egymástól nagyon különböző ideológiákat takarnak. Például 1959-es regénye, a Csillagközi invázió a kritikusok nagy többsége szerint a militarizmust dicsőíti. Ezzel szemben 1961-es regénye, az Angyali üdvözlet a szexuális forradalom és az ellenkultúra úttörőjének váratlan szerepébe helyezte őt.

Heinlein négy Hugo-díjat is nyert regényeiért, valamint ötven évvel első megjelenésük után három műve is „Retro-Hugo”-díjat kapott – ezeket a díjakat visszamenőleg osztják ki azon évek legjobb műveiért, amelyekben nem osztottak ki Hugo-díjat. Szintén ő volt az, aki az első Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master díjat kapott az Amerikai sci-fi és fantasy írók szervezetétől, életművének elismeréseként.

Műveiben Heinlein olyan szavakat is alkotott, amelyek később az angol nyelv részévé váltak, úgymint például a „grok”, a „TANSTAAFL” és a „waldo”. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. július 1907 – 8. május 1988  •  Más nevek Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
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Robert A. Heinlein híres idézetei

„A prűd egy olyan személy, aki azt gondolja, hogy a saját illendőségi szabályai természetes törvények.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„Nincs rosszabb zsarnokság, mint arra kényszeríteni az embert, hogy fizessen valamiért, amiért nem akar, pusztán azért, mert úgy gondoljuk, hogy az jó lenne a számára.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„A szerelem az az állapot, amelyben egy másik ember boldogsága elengedhetetlen a saját boldogságod számára.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein idézetek

„A nők és a macskák úgy fognak cselekedni, ahogy akarnak, a férfiaknak és a kutyáknak pedig pihenniük kéne és hozzászokni az ötlethez.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„Soha ne próbálj meg egy disznót énekelni tanítani; ez csak időpocsékolás, és a disznót is idegesíti.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„Olyan feltételeket tulajdonítottál a gazemberségnek, amelyek egyszerűen az ostobaságból fakadnak.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„Soha ne próbálj meg túlszárnyalni egy macskát.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„A bűn csak abban rejlik, hogy szükségtelenül megbántunk másokat. Minden más "bűn" kitalált ostobaság. Saját magadat bántani nem bűn - csak ostobaság.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein: Idézetek angolul

“Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive—and unpredictable.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv I Will Fear No Evil

Forrás: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 26, p. 452

“There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that’s philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to see a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that’s science. Three: Awareness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by Murphy’s Law, sometimes offset in part by Brewster’s Factor: that’s engineering.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Number of the Beast

Forrás: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 508

“Horses can manufacture more horses and that is one trick that tractors have never learned.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Farmer in the Sky

Forrás: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 187)

“Chief, perhaps it would be clearest to say that the fasarta modulates the garbab in such a phase relationship that the thrimaleen is forced to bast—or, to put it another way, somebody loosed mice in the washroom. Seriously, there is no popular way to explain it. If you were willing to spend five hard years with me, working up through the math, I could probably bring you to the same level of ignorance and confusion that I enjoy.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Between Planets

Forrás: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 17, “To Reset the Clock” (p. 176)

“She grabbed him by both ears and kissed him quickly, then ran away.
Don stared after her, rubbing his mouth. Girls, he reflected, were much odder than dragons. Probably another race entirely.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Between Planets

Forrás: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 18, “Little David” (p. 182)

““Let me get this,” the Old Man said. “You are promising the human race that, if we will just surrender, you will take care of us and make us happy. Right?”
“Exactly!”
The Old Man studied this while looking past my shoulders. He spat on the floor. “You know,” he said slowly, “me and my kind, we have often been offered that bargain. It never worked out worth a damn.””

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Puppet Masters

Forrás: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 10 (p. 58)

“Just now I’m writing a series of oh-so-respectful articles about the private life of the Prophet and his acolytes and attending priests, how many servants they have, how much it costs to run the Palace, all about the fancy ceremonies and rituals, and such junk. All of it perfectly true, of course, and told with unctuous approval. But I lay it on a shade too thick. The emphasis is on the jewels and the solid gold trappings and how much it all costs, and I keep telling the yokels what a privilege it is for them to be permitted to pay for such frippery and how flattered they should feel that God’s representative on earth lets them take care of him.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv If This Goes On

If This Goes On— (p. 426)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing —and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

“I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv If This Goes On

If This Goes On— (p. 401)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“They made a good team. As a matter of fact their talents were not too far apart; the artist is two-thirds artisan and the artisan has essentially the same creative urge as the artist.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Sixth Column

Forrás: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 68)

“I’m going to put it to you straight. Never mind about being chief engineer of a planet; these days even a farmer needs the best education he can get. Without it he’s just a country bumpkin, a stumbling peasant, poking seeds into the ground and hoping a miracle will make them grow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Farmer in the Sky

Forrás: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 20, “Home” (pp. 218-219)

“You put me in mind of a case I ran into in the American West. A respected citizen shot a professional gunthrower in the back. When asked why he didn’t give the other chap a chance to draw, the survivor said, ‘Well, he’s dead and I’m alive and that’s how I wanted it to be.’ Jamie, if you use sportsmanship on a known scamp, you put yourself at a terrible disadvantage.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Red Planet

Forrás: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 10, “We’re Boxed In!”, p. 148

“Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can’t have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don’t rate it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

Forrás: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5

“Let me add,” he went on, “that since I handle secret and most-secret despatches, I know things that I don’t know, if I make my meaning clear.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Number of the Beast

Forrás: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXIX : “—we place no faith in princes.”, p. 286

“I expect this to be my last venture in this field; 'tain't worth the grief”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Grumbles from the Grave

Response to efforts to censor his first novel, Red Planet
Grumbles from the Grave (1989)

“The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Forrás: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 10

“If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Forrás: Time Enough for Love (1973)

“I wish they wouldn’t hold mornings so early.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Number of the Beast

Forrás: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XVI : “—a maiden knight, eager to break a lance—”, p. 138

“As I once heard Andrew—that’s my disappearing brother—say: ‘Life consist in accommodating oneself to the Universe.’ Although the rest of our family has never taken that view. We believe if forcing the Universe to accommodate itself to us. It’s all a question of which one is to be master.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Number of the Beast

Forrás: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 486

“Dr. Russell, I concede that Washington has an atrocious climate. But you will have air-conditioned offices.”
“With clocks, no doubt. And secretaries. And soundproofing.”
“Anything you want, doctor.”
“The point is, Mr. Secretary, I don’t want them. This household has no clocks. Nor calendars. Once I had a large income and a larger ulcer; I now have a small income and no ulcer. I stay here.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“But the job needs you.”
“The need is not mutual.”
Forrás: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 1

“Between being ‘right’ and being kind, I know which way I vote.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv I Will Fear No Evil

Forrás: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 24, p. 400

“I’m not raising any kids to be radioactive dust.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Farmer in the Sky

Forrás: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 198)

“At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that “news” is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different—in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Number of the Beast

Forrás: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XVI : “—a maiden knight, eager to break a lance—”, p. 134

“You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Forrás: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 8

“Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)

“The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Number of the Beast

Forrás: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXVIII : “—under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid—”, p. 377

“How can you argue with a woman who won't?”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Richard Ames; chapter 19, p. 235
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“It’s impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he’s eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he’ll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv I Will Fear No Evil

Forrás: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 25, p. 427

“But what you’re talking about means giving up all that—just the noble primitive, simple and self-sufficient. He’s going to chop down a tree—who sold him the ax? He wants to shoot a deer—who made his gun?…There never was and there never could be a noble simple creature such as you described. He’d be an ignorant savage, with dirt on his skin and lice in his hair. He would work sixteen hours a day to stay alive at all. He’d sleep in a filthy hut on a dirt floor. And his point of view and his mental processes would be just two jumps above an animal.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Beyond This Horizon

Forrás: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 6, “We don’t speak the same lingo”, pp. 73-74

“For three hundred years the race had glazed windows. Then they shut themselves up in little air-conditioned boxes and stared at silly television pictures instead. One might as well be on Luna.”

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Robert A. Heinlein könyv Farmer in the Sky

Forrás: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 16, “Line Up” (p. 161)