Date: 12 May 88 02:56:37 GMT
From: inuxm!arlan@moss.att.com (A Andrews)
Subject: Requiem: The Day That SF Died
THE DAY THAT SF DIED
copyright 1988, Arlan Andrews
(roughly based on melody of "American Pie" by Don Mclean, ca.1971)
Long, long time ago I can still remember
How his stories used to make me dream.
And I hoped if I read enough
I would learn of space and stuff
And bring about the future he'd foreseen.
But television brought the story
How he'd passed to SF glory
Bad news on the big screen
No more would he be seen.
I remember how I cried
When they said he'd crossed that great divide
And all his words welled up inside
The day that SF died.
So, farewell, Mr. Robert Heinlein
Thank you for your stories and your soul and your mind
We wish you well while traveling the galaxy's girth
Far away from the green hills of Earth
Far from the green hills of Earth.
It was you took time enough for love
And you'll be friends with God above
I'm sure He's read your book of Job.
And I'm sure he'll take you by the hand
Not as a stranger in a strange land
And put you onto a glory road.
I knew some Friday bye and bye
You'd take that tunnel in the sky
And with a different drummer
Find your door into summer.
I was a lost and lonely little country kid
Till your book RED PLANET blew my mental lid
Just one of all those things you did
Till the day that SF died.
And we were singing, farewell Mr. Robert Heinlein
Thank you for your stories and your soul and your mind
We wish you well while traveling the galaxy's girth
Far away from the green hills of Earth
Far from the green hills of Earth.
Now for many years you led us on
SPACE CADET to THE ROLLING STONES
Your FARNHAM's FREEHOLD kept them all upset
When a new wave fingered in your face
You feared no evil, put them in their place
And STARSHIP TROOPERS blasts them even yet.
And while the Hugos went your way
Unpleasant kiddies wouldn't play
But in the middle of the distress
Your moon was a harsh mistress.
While the puppet masters pulled their strings
You wrote of paupers and of kings.
Methuselah's children, they all will sing
Of the day that SF died.
And we were singing, farewell, Mr. Robert Heinlein
Thank you for your stories and your soul and your mind
We wish you well while traveling the galaxy's girth
Far away from the green hills of Earth
Far from the green hills of Earth.
Now you're a citizen of the galaxy,
Monument to rationality,
Your assignment in eternity.
Tomorrow the stars will welcome you
Beyond this horizon and beyond the blue
Between planets a lifeline waits for you.
The past through tomorrow now you can see
And all through the future history
You lived on in hearts of fans like me
The day that SF died.
And we were singing
Farewell Mr. Robert Heinlein
Thank you for your stories and your soul and your mind.
We wish you well while traveling the galaxy's girth
Far away from the green hills of Earth.
Far from the green hills of Earth.
The star beast now can walk through walls
In great un-numbered cosmic halls
With Starman Jones and Lazarus along
The man who sold the moon to earth
Is booked into another berth
And travels without spacesuits where he's gone.
He's sailed beyond the sunset light
But not, I think, into the night
He'll always stay within our sight
The day that SF died.
And we are singing,
Farewell, Mr. Robert Heinlein
Thank you for your stories and your soul and your mind
We wish you well while traveling the galaxy's girth.
Far away from the green hills of Earth.
Far from the green hills of Earth.
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Date: 10 May 88 17:28:18 GMT
From: wrd@tekigm2.tek.com (Bill Dippert)
Subject: RAH, In Memoriam
The following is what I hope is the final definitive listing of all of
Robert Anson Heinlein's works, may he rest in peace. Read, enjoy, I did.
But then, I read them for enjoyment, not for social criticism, philosophy,
neo-fascism or any of the other things that he has been accused of. Not
that he might not have been guilty, but again -- read them to enjoy, forget
the "messages"!
The History of the Future:
Lifeline (notes 12,3)
"Let There be Light" (note 4)
(Word Edgewise)
The Roads Must Roll (notes 2,4)
Blowups Happen (notes 1,2,3)
The Man Who Sold the Moon (notes 2,4)
Delilah & the Space Rigger (notes 2,7)
Space Jockey (notes 2,7)
Requiem (notes 2,4)
The Long Watch (notes 2,7)
Gentlemen, Be Seated (notes 2,7)
The Black Pits of Luna (notes 2,7)
"It's Great to be Back!" (notes 2,7)
"--We Also Walk Dogs" (notes 2,7)
Searchlight (note 2)
Ordeal in Space (notes 2,7)
The Green Hills of Earth (notes)2,7)
(Fire Down Below)
Logic of Empire (notes 2,7)
(The Sound of His Wings)
(Eclipse)
(The Stone Pillow)
The Menace From Earth (note 2)
If This Goes On--- (notes 2,5)
Coventry (notes 2,5)
Misfit (notes 2,5)
Universe (Prologue only)
Methuselah's Children (notes 2) [Lazarus Long]
Universe (note 6)
Commonsense (note 6)
(Da Capo)
The above is from the chart which appeared in many of the earlier Heinlein
Future of the World books.
Note 1: included in "Expanded Universe"
Note 2: included in "The Past Through Tomorrow"
Note 3: included in "The Worlds of R.A. Heinlein"
Note 4: included in "The Man Who Sold the Moon" (aka
Future History, Volume 1: The Man Who Sold the Moon)
Note 5: included in "Revolt in 2100" (aka Future
History, Volume 3: Revolt in 2100)
Note 6: included in "Orphans of the Sky"
Note.7: included in "The Green Hills of Earth" (aka
Future History, Volume 2: The Green Hills of Earth)
For more information on the stories in parenthesis see "Revolt in 2100"
chapter entitled "Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript"
Additional titles for History of the Future:
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls [Lazarus Long]
The Number of the Beast [Lazarus Long]
The Past Through Tomorrow
Life-Line
The Roads Must Roll
Blowups Happen (1946 version 1)
The Man Who Sold the Moon
Delilah and the Space-Rigger
Space Jockey
Requiem
The Long Watch
Gentlemen, Be Seated
The Black Pits of Luna
"It's Great to Be Back!"
"--We Also Walk Dogs"
Searchlight
Ordeal in Space
The Green Hills of Earth
Logic of Empire
The Menace From Earth
"If This Goes On--"
Coventry
Misfit
Methuselah's Children [Lazarus Long]
Time Enough For Love [Lazarus Long]
Total_List_of_Heinlein_Books:
Assignment in Eternity
Between Planets
Beyond This Horizon
The Cat Who Walks Thro gh Walls
Citizen of the Galaxy
The Day After Tomorrow (aka Sixth Column)
The Door Into Summer
Double Star
Expanded Universe
Life-Line
Successful Operation
Blowups Happen (1940 version)
Solution Unsatisfactory
The Last Days of the United States
How To Be a Survivor
Pie from the Sky
They Do It With Mirrors
Free Men
No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying--
A Bathroom of Her Own
On the Slopes of Vesuvius
Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon
Pandora's Box
Where To?
Cliff and the Calories
Ray Guns and Rocket Ships
The Third Millennium Opens
Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?
"Pravda" Means "Truth"
Insido Intourist
Searchlight
The Pragmatics of Patriotism
Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You
Larger Than Life
Spinoff
The Happy Days Ahead
Farmer in the Sky
Farnham's Freehold
Friday
Glory Road
The Green Hills of Earth
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
Heil!
I Will Fear No Evil
Job: A Comedy of Justice
The Man Who Sold the Moon
The Menace From Earth
Methuselah's Children
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Number of the Beast
Orphans of the Sky
Universe
Common Sense
The Past Through Tomorrow
Podkayne of Mars
The Puppet Masters
Red Planet
Revolt in 2100
Rocket Ship Galileo
The Rolling Stenes
To Sail Beyond The Sunset
6 x H (aka The Unpleasant Profession of
Jonathan Hoag)
Space Cadet
The Star Beast
Starman Jones
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Time Enough For Love
Time for the Stars
Tomorrow the Stars (edited by R.A.H.)
Tunnel in the Sky
Universe (original contains Universe only)
Waldo: Genius in Orbit (aka Waldo and Magic, Inc.)
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein
Pandora's Box
Free Man
Blowups Happen (1946 version 2)
Searchlight
Life-Line
Solution Unsatisfactory
Robert A. Heinlein died on 9 May 1988.
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