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Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein | |
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Robert A(nson) Heinlein | | Variant Name: |
Robert A(nson) Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein, Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York, Robert (Anson) Heinlein | | Birth Date: |
July 7, 1907 | | Death Date: |
May 8, 1988 | | Place of Birth: |
Butler, Missouri | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Robert A(nson) Heinlein
15701 words, approx. 52.3 pages
 Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, a small town some sixty-five miles south of Kansas City. He and his six brothers and sisters were raised in Kansas City, where he attended grade school and high school, graudating from Central High in 1...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Red Planet Information
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 Red Planet is a 1949 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about students at boarding school on Mars. It represents the first appearance of Heinlein's idealized Martian elder race (see also Stranger in a Strange Land). The version published in...
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 The Washington Post But Are They Red Planets or Blue Planets?
09/01/2004: 861 words, approx. 3 pages As we focus on President Bush's verbal slip about the unwinnable war on terror, and John Kerry's Vietnam Swift boating, some scientists, intrusive and utterly indifferent to the political calendar, yesterday announced the discovery of two new planets the size of Neptune. Your... summary from source:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Angry red planet
01/23/2004: 814 words, approx. 3 pages Angry red planet Mars wears a black hat in most Hollywood movies By GLENN LOVELL San Jose Mercury News Friday, January 23, 2004 Obviously, the White House screening room isn't stocked with classic sci-fi. If it were, President Bush, in... summary from source:
 AP News Site for next Mars mission debated
2/1/2007: 396 words, approx. 1 pagesScientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.The original landing spot was nixed after images beamed back by... summary from source:
AP News Dirt digger rocketing toward Mars
8/4/2007: 945 words, approx. 3 pagesA robotic dirt and ice digger rocketed toward Mars on Saturday, beginning a 422 million-mile journey that NASA hopes will culminate next spring in the first ever landing within the red planet's Arctic Circle.The Phoenix Mars Lander blasted off before dawn, precisely on time, hurtling...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Creighton Peet
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In Mr. Heinlein's cosmos, interplanetary rocket travel is old stuff. Earlier books got his characters to the moon and to stations parked in space. [In "Red Planet"] he describes colonial life on Mars some years after men from the earth have settled there. He even throws in a desperate revolt against dishonest agents of the operating company back on earth. When Jim and Frank, sons of colonials go to boarding school they take Willis, a Martian called a bouncer, about the size and shape of...
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Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein | |
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