
While I cannot say that I found 1973’s Time Enough for Love to my favorite book of his (that will probably always remain Stranger in a Strange Land), this particular text is probably the ultimate execution of a variety of themes and contentions that Heinlein had attempted to make, using character types that had finally found their fullest evolution in the course of the novel. So much so that I’ve found myself adding the Dean of Science Fiction to my own short list of personal favorite authors-even with due deference to some issues with his characterizations. Heinlein specifically focused his science fiction on two very important domains that are indispensable to creating worthwhile worlds of science fiction-scientific theories and political ideas.

It is fair to assert that between his works and those of Asimov you can find the foundation of any science fiction story of the past 60 years or better.

There is no denying that Robert Heinlein is one of the most important science fiction writers of the 20 th century.
