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Brian Doherty, a senior editor of Reason magazine and the author of “Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement,” has this glowing tribute to RAH published in the Los Angeles Times:

The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was born in Missouri, and his fiction was mostly set in the future and on distant planets. But there’s no question that Heinlein — born 100 years ago this week — was one of Southern California’s great prophets.

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From 1939 until his death in 1988, Heinlein was science fiction’s acknowledged leader, with 33 popular novels, most of them in print decades later. He was the first to be awarded the annual Grand Master title by his fellow science fiction writers, ahead of such other genre heroes as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. He won four Hugo Awards for his novels and helped set the genre’s standards for dealing with everything from time travel to interplanetary colonization and war to super-longevity.