1. Heinlein - Noun
2. Heinlein - Proper noun
United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988)
Source: WordNet... Heinlein is an engineer by training and a humanist by temperament. Damon Knight
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein. Paul Di Filippo
Several years ago, when I was ill, Heinlein offered his help, anything he could do, and we had never met; he would phone me to cheer me up and see how I was doing. Philip K. Dick
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. Walter Jon Williams
Acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." The origin of this phrase is often misattributed to Heinlein or Milton Friedman, but it actually dates back to at least the 1930s. Heinlein's contribution was to make the acronym for it. Robert A. Heinlein
E. E. Smith opened my eyes to the fact that there could be good aliens as well as evil ones, while Heinlein demonstrated that it is, after all, possible to write 'hard' sf stories which centre around quite ordinary people. James White (author)