27. “I Vant Your Blood”

    1. RAH, letter to William S. Kyler, Executive Director of CCBC, 11/13/75.

    2. RAH, letter to William S. Kyler, 11/13/75.

    3. RAH, letter to Dr. Harvey Wallerstein, 12/03/75.

    4. RAH, open letter to “Dear Friends,” written 11/26/75, in the MidAmeriCon Progress Report for Winter 1975.

    5. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Series 3, Tape B, Side B (March 27, 2001).

    6. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with Leon Stover, Tape 1, Side 1 (10/21?/88).

    7. In an e-mail discussion with the author on August 19, 2011, Dr. Pournelle commented on this liaison:

At some point I told the [MidAmeriCon] Committee “Do you think I am a bit old fashioned and fuddy duddy and hard to deal with?” They all grinned (well this was by phone so I infer the grins). “He graduated from the Naval Academy before I was born,” I pointed out. Robert was very old fashioned in some of his beliefs about proper etiquette, and pretty damned rigid in his expectations.

It all worked out but it cost me more time than I think either Robert or Ginny realized. I sure took pains to see they didn’t know.

    8. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Series 3, Tape B, Side B (March 27, 2001).

    9. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Series 3, Tape B, Side B (March 27, 2001).

  10. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Series 3, Tape B, Side B (March 27, 2001).

  11. RAH, letter to Jack Williamson, 03/20/76. This letter in its entirety is published in the Virginia Edition, vol. xxxviii, Nonfiction 2.

  12. Heinlein’s meetings with Tony Damico are told in Learning Curve, the first volume of this biography, at 316 and 344.

  13. Transcription of Jerry Pournelle’s presentation at the October 8, 1988, NASA Distinguished Public Service Awards Ceremony—from videotape provided by Ginny Heinlein. A somewhat shortened version of these remarks were included in Requiem, ed. Yoji Kondo.

  14. RAH, letter to Garth Danielson, 08/25/76.

  15. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Morning Glory Zell, 09/14/76.

  16. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with Leon Stover, Tape 1, Side A (October 21? 1988).

  17. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Series 3, Tape B, Side B (March 2001).

  18. The videotapes made for the MidAmeriCon closed-circuit cablecast represent the longest video of Heinlein that exists, as every television appearance the author has been able to check was destroyed over the years. Even the original tapes of the appearance with Walter Cronkite and Arthur C. Clarke for the Moon landing in 1969 have been recycled. A screen capture of the public broadcast portion of the interview and commentary was preserved on a videotape presented to Virginia Heinlein, which is now in the RAH Archive, UC Santa Cruz. Digital copies of the somewhat age-degraded videotape were made for Mrs. Heinlein by the author in 2001 and 2002, and by special permission the Heinlein Society shows the CBS tape at some science-fiction conventions. The MidAmeriCon videos, also somewhat time-degraded, were given to the Heinlein Centennial by MidAmeriCon chairman Ken Keller for exhibition and have also been digitized.

  19. Spider Robinson, “Robert,” Requiem, Yoji Kondo, ed., 316–17.

  20. RAH, letter to Andrew Porter, 01/15/77.

  21. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  22. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  23. RAH, letter to Vikki Gold, 01/17/77.

  24. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  25. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  26. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  27. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  28. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  29. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  30. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  31. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  32. RAH, letter to R. Faraday Nelson, 02/07/77.

  33. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Sondra and Myrna Marshak, 02/14/77.

  34. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Sondra and Myrna Marshak, 02/14/77.

  35. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Jeannie and Alex Campbell, 04/12/77.

  36. For the installation as Grand Master in April 1977; Published in NESFA chapbook of Creator in 1984 and again in the Virginia Edition, vol. xxxviii, Nonfiction 2.

  37. RAH, letter to Judith Merril (marked “never sent”), 11/01/67—but note, this is more than a decade after he gave up his Democratic Party membership, and four years after working for Barry Goldwater’s election. Heinlein is clearly a small-d democrat as well as a small-l libertarian.

  38. RAH, letter to Prof. David Friedman, 08/05?/78.

  39. RAH, letter to Joseph Martino, 04/15/85.

  40. RAH, letter to Prof. David Friedman, 08/05?/78. Heinlein’s relationship to libertarianism is quite complex and nuanced. Although he does not seem to fit comfortably within any of the common and named libertarian traditions, he seems to come closest to the radical individualism (“Egoism”) typified by Max Stirner—a position that sets both Marxists and orthodoctrinaire libertarians on edge, as it acknowledges neither “natural law” nor the pseudoscientific Marxist “laws of history.”

  41. Tucson television news reporter Forrest Carr researched the KGUN9 Archives at the Arizona Historical Society in 2011 but was unable to find any record of this interview. Like most of Heinlein’s television appearances, it appears not to have been preserved.

  42. RAH, “Some Applications of Space Technology for the Elderly and the Handicapped,” Congressional Testimony given on 7/19/79.

  43. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Greg Hagglund, 06/12/77.

  44. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Robert Forward, 07/24/77.

  45. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Dr. and Mrs. Passovoy, 08/01/77.

  46. The Gregg Press science-fiction line was founded in 1973 by Editor Thomas T. Beeler, to be run by Hartwell, who was his fellow grad student and friend in the English department of Columbia University. David Hartwell, e-mail to the author, 08/08/11. Hartwell goes on to add that he had also been an editor at Putnam’s from 1973 to 1978, and as such was in direct contact with the Heinleins and their agent, Lurton Blassingame, about book projects and for that reason was also a part of the Heinleins’ social and business circles and was invited to the Heinleins’ “at-homes” at the Tuscany when they were in New York.

  47. Hartwell indicated in an e-mail to the author, 08/08/11, that the advance for all the Gregg Press books was $100.

  48. Altogether, Gregg Press published eight Heinlein books, five in 1979 and the last in 1981. Gregg Press ceased publishing in 1985, having issued 252 books.

The Destination Moon compilation edited by Hartwell was part of the Gregg Science Fiction and Film series and published in 1979. It contains Heinlein’s novelization of the original movie script, an article Heinlein wrote for Astounding in 1950 about the film, and a selection of publicity material, including the contents of the press package designed by Heinlein’s friend Ben Babb.

The remaining seven issues are as follows:

1978: Double Star (1956)		Intro: Joe Haldeman
1978: I Will Fear No Evil (1969)		Intro: Paul Williams
1979: The Door into Summer (1956)		Intro: David Hartwell
1979: Glory Road (1963)		Intro: Samuel R. Delany
1979: The Puppet Masters (1951)		Intro: James E. Gunn
1979: Waldo & Magic, Inc. (1950)		Intro: Charles N. Brown
1981: Beyond This Horizon (1942, 48)		Intro: Norman Spinrad

  49. Program dated 09/23/77 in Denis Paradis binder of documents, RAH Archive, UC Santa Cruz.

  50. Denis Paradis, letter to Virginia Heinlein, 05/03/78.

  51. Virginia Heinlein, letter to the author, 12/11/99.

  52. Virginia Heinlein, letter to the author, 12/11/99.

  53. Heinlein had had the first of a series of Transient Ischemic Attacks—warning signs that a stroke is imminent. The timing of this TIA is not dated with specificity. Mrs. Heinlein mentioned only that he had had a TIA earlier, while writing. Virginia Heinlein, letter to the author, 09/20/00 and Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Series 3, Tape A, Side A (March 1?, 2001).

  54. David Lee Powell, “Robert Anson Heinlein, Grandmaster One, 1907-1988,” http://archive.is/rxOfD (accessed 03/04/2014).

  55. Virginia Heinlein, letter to George Warren, 03/09/79.

  56. Virginia Heinlein, letter to George Warren, 03/09/79.

  57. McAleer, Visionary (2010), 223, quoting Asimov’s recollections.

  58. Virginia Heinlein, letter to Judy-Lynn del Rey, 10/25/77.

  59. In taped interviews with the author in 2000 and 2001, Mrs. Heinlein claimed not to remember any specifics about the book or her initial experience of reading it, except that she told Heinlein at the time it was “not best work.” But she did say that the author’s reactions to the manuscript, reading it in 2002 when it was still sealed, “validated” her opinion. “Competent yard goods” and “not a Heinlein novel” was the language used in the author’s report to Mrs. Heinlein, which prompted the “validated” remark in Second Series, Tape B, Side B.

  60. Virginia Heinlein, letter to the author, 07/14/00.

  61. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Series 2, Tape B, Side B.

  62. Virginia Heinlein, taped interview with the author, Tape 10, Side A.

  63. RAH, letter to L. Ron Hubbard, 07/14/78.