20. House-building—Again!

    1. RAH, letter to Lurton Blassingame, 02/01/66.

    2. Virginia Heinlein, e-mail to the author, 05/21/00.

    3. Redwoods grow in concentric rings and their litter makes the soil in the center of the ring so acidic that only highly resistant plants can grow there. The walled-in spaces are called “cathedrals.” Nothing competes with redwoods for sun.

    4. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Tape 6, Side B.

    5. RAH, Journal, “The Road to Bonny Doon,” 01/11/66.

    6. RAH, Journal, “The Road to Bonny Doon,” 01/12/66.

    7. RAH, “The Heinlein Interview.” The Robert A. Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleinana, J. Neil Schulman, ed., 166.

    8. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Michael J. Cronin, EVP of Productivity Systems Division, Computervision Corporation, 03/11/79.

    9. Virginia Heinlein, letter to the author, 10/20/99.

  10. RAH, letter to Lurton Blassingame (second letter of the same date, continuation), 02/01/66.

  11. RAH, letter to Elisabeth Price, 11/21/67.

  12. RAH, letter to Elisabeth Price, 11/21/67.

  13. RAH, letter to Lurton Blassingame (second letter of the same date, continuation), 02/01/66.

  14. RAH, telephone interview with Ben Bova, 06/29/79.

  15. RAH, letter to Peggy Blassingame, 04/06/66.

  16. RAH, letter to Peggy Blassingame, 04/06/66.

  17. Harlan Ellison, letter to RAH, 07/25/66.

  18. RAH, letter to Lurton Blassingame, 07/01/66.

  19. RAH, letter to Lurton Blassingame, 07/01/66.

  20. While the author was consulting at the UC Santa Cruz library in 2003–6, he frequently experienced small birds stooping to pluck his hair, presumably for nest-building. Perhaps something of the sort was happening to Ginny Heinlein—a local Santa Cruz phenomenon.

  21. RAH, letter to Earl Kemp, 01/20/57.

  22. Many years later, talking in a general way, critic Fredric Jameson suggested that science fiction achieves a historical consciousness through projections of futures. Fredric Jameson, “Progress versus Utopia: or Can We Imagine the Future,” Science Fiction Studies (July 1982).

  23. Damon Knight, letter to RAH, 10/06/66.

  24. RAH, letter to Willy Ley, 04/05/68.

  25. RAH, letter to Lurton Blassingame, 09/04/66.

  26. Poul Anderson, letter to RAH, 09/23/66.

  27. RAH, letter to Poul Anderson, 10/09/66.

  28. RAH, letter to Lurton Blassingame, 09/04/66; Virginia Heinlein, letter to Leon Stover, 03/28/89.

  29. Author conversation with Rita (Berner) Bottoms, April 2004.

  30. Michael Murphy, letter to RAH, 10/11/66.

  31. Rev. David Baar, Bishop of California, letter to Michael Murphy (RAH is cc’d), 12/06/66.

  32. Walter Minton, letter to Lurton Blassingame, 01/01/67.

  33. Lurton Blassingame, letter to Walter Minton, 12/22/66.

  34. Peter Mayer (Avon), letter to Walter Minton, 02/01/67.