(2010-08-11) Patterson Heinlein Bio

William H Patterson has written a bio of Robert Heinlein called Robert A. Heinlein: Learning Curve ISBN:0765319608.

Tor Com is running a series of posts from SciFi writers.

Charlie Stross will have a post up later this week. And, at least through his first forty years, his political beliefs were very different to those attributed to him in later life — his early fiction is to some extent a misleading guide to his actual thinking, as his work was tightly tailored to John W Campbell's publishing agenda (in order to pay the mortgage and supplement his navy pension).