Two sites I’ve used for many years are bodycandy.com and painfulpleasures.com.
That opens randomly and gets in the way of my usual swiping motions. When trying to upvote/downvote and that opens instead, it’s slow to go away and then keeps trying to open, not letting me swipe a quick vote. Then the comment snaps to the left such that part of it is offscreen to the left. Scrolling a little will make the comment realign correctly.
When trying to swipe to the previous screen it randomly opens and now I have to deal with it before I can swipe away, and its slowness gets in the way.
I will never use this, so I’d like to disable it. I haven’t seen a way to do this in options. Thanks!
Major conventions:
- Worldcon 3 Denvention Guest of Honor speech – 1941
- Worldcon 19 SeaCon Guest of Honor Speech – 1961
- Rio de Janeiro Movie Festival Guest of Honor – 1969
- Worldcon 34 MidAmerica Con Guest of Honor speech – 1976
All of the Guest of Honor Speeches are published in the Requiem collection edited by Dr. Yoji Kondo, as well as in the Requiem volume of the Virginia Edition.
In addition, Heinlein was guest of honor at a number of smaller conventions for which his remarks were often not preserved. In 1976 and 1977 he accepted many such offers as part of his campaign to recruit new blood donors, but when his health deteriorated in 1977 he was forced to cease the practice.
Photo, Robert Heinlein at MidAmericon 1976
There is no definite answer to this because many publishers are involved, and often they never reported sales (because they were not paying the royalties they owed Heinlein!). However, the total answer cannot be less than many tens of millions. Stranger In a Strange Land by itself has sold more than (conservatively) 25 million copies (and possibly many millions more). An estimate of 80 million copies altogether appeared on the back of a new issue several years ago.
I wonder the same thing!
I tried this and from the Arctic community 
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What was the Mañana Literary Society?
Robert Heinlein started the Mañana Literary Society as an informal Saturday-night get-together of Los Angeles science fiction writers and others before World War II. The membership included authors such as Anthony Boucher, Arthur K. Barnes, Edmond Hamilton, L. Ron Hubbard, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, L. Sprague de Camp, Cleve Cartmill, Leigh Brackett, Jack Williamson and a very young Ray Bradbury. Robert and Leslyn hosted these meetings at their house on Lookout Mountain Avenue in Hollywood.
You’re welcome!
From our former president: “I believe all of the Hugos are with the Heinlein Prize Trust, so at their headquarters in Texas. Other awards are also probably with them, but I don't know for sure.”
Dissociation is a trauma response. I fight with it constantly myself, because of cPTSD. Finding out what the root cause was helped me see that that’s what’s happening, but I still fight constantly.
Of course this is just me, but it’s also a thought for you to consider. Therapy helped me greatly.
Good question! Let me find out for you.
4 original Hugos and 7 Retro Hugos
The original Hugos were for:
- 1956 Novel: Double Star. Published 1956 by Robert A. Heinlein
- 1960 Novel: Starship Troopers. Published 1959 by Robert A. Heinlein
- 1962 Novel: Stranger in a Strange Land. Published 1961 by Robert A. Heinlein
- 1966 Novel: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Published 1966 by Robert A. Heinlein
The Retro Hugos were started to cover works during the years before the Hugo awards were established. The Retro Hugos awarded:
- Best Novel–Farmer in the Sky. Published 1950 by Robert A. Heinlein
- Best Novella–“The Man Who Sold the Moon.” Published 1939 by Robert A. Heinlein (from The Man Who Sold the Moon)
- Best Dramatic Presentation–Destination Moon movie (release date July 7, 1950) with script by Robert A. Heinlein and Alford van Ronkel
- Best Novel - Beyond This Horizon (Astounding Science Fiction -Apr,May 1942) — Robert A. Heinlein
- Best Novella - Waldo” (Astounding Science Fiction Aug 1942)— Robert A. Heinlein
- Best Novella -“If This Goes On...” (Astounding Science-Fiction Feb 1940) — Robert A. Heinlein
- Best Novelette - The Roads Must Roll” (Astounding Science-Fiction Jun 1940)
I don’t recommend this book for an intro to RAH, because about halfway through stuff starts happening that makes no sense without reading some other books first. Methuselah’s Children and Time Enough For Love, at least. The first is a great intro to RAH, the second is a bit heavy but can be done— as one of his later books it gets into some controversial ideas he liked to write about.
To see what you’re getting into, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_History_(Heinlein) and https://www.heinleinsociety.org/faq-frequently-asked-questions-about-robert-a-heinlein-his-works/#Does-the-Future-History-and-the-World-as-Myth-relate-together
Feel free to ask over in https://lemmy.world/c/the_heinlein_society if you like any more info!
We meet Pixel, a small yellow kitten, in Robert Heinlein’s The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. This cat is the basis of my username and I’m always excited to meet another Pixel-owned human who got the name from this book.
I also like the possibility of new Heinlein fans. ;)
Is this by chance a Heinlein kitty? ❤️
Yep.
And THREE no step on snek plates
This is difficult to answer without first defining what to count. Using James Gifford’s Opus list in his Robert A. Heinlein Reader’s Guide I (Heinlein Society President Ken Walters) counted 205 listings. These included everything: essays, articles, forwards, afterwards, acknowledgments, book reviews, interviews, speeches, screen plays, scripts, etc.
In Heinlein Journal No. 19 July 2006 Bill Patterson says 63 books which include the short story collections (some of which exist in multiple formats). In the Wikipedia entry for Robert they state: Heinlein published 32 novels, 59 short stories, and 16 collections during his life.
Under what pseudonyms did Heinlein’s sf/f stories appear?
Anson MacDonald (Anson is Heinlein’s middle name and a Heinlein family name; MacDonald was wife Leslyn’s maiden name, but this is a coincidence: John Campbell, who liked all things Scottish, chose the name before he knew about Leslyn’s maiden name.)
Lyle Monroe (Lyle was his mother’s maiden name, and Monroe was a branch of his mother’s family. Just as Heinlein’s personal names were taken from grandfathers, so was Lyle Monroe — another set of grandfathers.)
John Riverside (probably from Riverside, California)
Caleb Saunders — there are a couple of sources from which “Caleb” might have been drawn: Heinlein’s best friend from the Naval Academy was Caleb Laning; one of his favorite books in the 1930’s was Caleb Catlum’s America (Vincent McHugh 1936). A source for “Saunders” is not known.
Simon York – "They Do It with Mirrors". This was his only detective story. He said detective stories were easy to write but of lower market value than SF.
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Thank you soooo much ❤️