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Artist Matthew Stawicki was born on this day, so here's some of his work (the 3rd is for Heinlein's 'Podkayne of Mars', the 4th for Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' - I couldn't find suitable versions of the actual dustjackets to copy):

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2023-03-31

Happy Space Helmet Reflection Saturday! Here's an elegant but uncredited example, for a 1971 edition of Robert A Heinlein's 'Have Space Suit - Will Travel'

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2022-03-20

Criticism of Robert A. Heinlein's story "Sky Lift," and everything else, in the March 1954 issue of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy. Well I'll be a spidermonkey's dutch uncle!

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2021-10-06

Mecha of the day - the Starship Troopers OVA's imagination of the book's famous Power Armor. Heinlein's description of combat is a direct inspiration for the Real Robot genre.

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2021-09-22

Our last trip together on this Summer of Robert A Heinlein focuses on what many consider worst novel:

https://t.co/HQkPvFLgRR

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2019-08-15

Robert A. Heinlein's 19 Predictions For The Future - http://t.co/uYa84CpTht

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2015-07-07