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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) was an American science fiction writer and former naval officer, often grouped with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke as the genre's big three. He is best known for Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, and for short fiction like "All You Zombies," and in 1974 he became the first Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America.