Robert Heinlein

10 Awesome Uses For A Stasis Field

Click to viewThe stasis field generator is the Swiss Army knife of technological devices. But people haven’t given these awesome time-stopping zones their props — until recently, when they started turning up as weapons in a ton of video games, from Dead Space’s stasis module to Destroy All Humans: Path Of The Furon’s “Temporal Fist.”…

Science Fiction Is The Literature Of Refugees

When you think about the archetypal science fiction story, chances are you think of the bold explorer, setting foot on a newfound planet in the name of a secure homeworld. But possibly the most pervasive narrative in science fiction is actually the story of refugees. They flee from planetary destruction, war, or just from overcrowding…

21 Ways To Eradicate Campiness From Science Fiction

Click to viewEver since the first cheesy monster or goofy robot leered out from the cover of a pulpy magazine, science fiction has struggled to shake off a certain tinge of campiness. No matter how hard creators may try to tell cool stories, that slightly ironic silliness is always lurking just outside the frame. And…

You can draw a direct line of descent from Rudyard Kipling to Robert Heinlein, and from Heinlein to today’s military science fiction authors. Too bad none of Kipling’s acolytes deal with the realities of war as well as he did, argues Jeet Heer. [Sans Everything]