Robert A. Heinlein

Nov 19, 2023 | shepherd.com | Robert A. Heinlein

Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Why read it? 1 author pickedFarmer in the Sky as one of their favoritebooks. Why do they recommend it? All of Robert Heinlein's YA novels are good (better, in my opinion, than his adult novels), but this one has special meaning for me because it was the first book I ever read about colonizing an uninhabited world.

Sep 14, 2023 | dontworrybuy.com | Robert A. Heinlein

Musk discovered that sci-fi addressed a curiosity brewing throughout his teen years in a means that faith and science alone couldn’t. Neither gave passable solutions to his questions on the place the universe got here from and why it exists, Walter Isaacson wrote in his new biography of the CEO, titled Elon Musk. “When he reached his teens, it began to gnaw at him that something was missing,” Isaacson wrote.

Sep 14, 2023 | inkl.com | Robert A. Heinlein

“When he reached his teens, it began to gnaw at him that something was missing,” Isaacson wrote. That feeling led to an “adolescent existential crisis” that Musk tried to solve with books. “I began trying to figure out what the meaning of life and the universe was,” Musk said. “And I got real depressed about it, like maybe life may have no meaning.” He turned to existential philosophers like Nietzsche, but they left him feeling more adrift (he doesn’t recommend this as teenage reading material).

Sep 9, 2023 | beforewegoblog.com | Beth Tabler |Robert A. Heinlein

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one “The Third Space War” (or the fourth), or whether “The First Interstellar War” fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War.” Everything up to then and still later were “incidents,” “patrols,” or “police actions.” However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an “incident” as you are if you buy it in a declared war…In one of Robert A.

Jul 12, 2023 | cbr.com | Frank Herbert |Michael Crichton |Robert A. Heinlein |P.D. James

Sci-fi is one of the biggest genres in film, with countless movies exploring the strange line of science and fiction and a few films do it best.