Heinlein also wrote as Anson MacDonald and Lyle Monroe. He wrote his first short story (Lifeline) in 1939. He wrote many well-known novels (see below). He received the Nebula Grand Master award in 1975.

Reading Plate - 50's style flat panel
A flat screen that provided computer output for viewing.

The Star Beast (1954)

Refreshing Chamber
Replaces the bathroom in the future history of Robert Heinlein.

Coventry (1940)

Ring Road - mag-lev old-style
A magnetically levitated train.

Starman Jones (1953)

Robopark - automated parking garage
An automated parking garage.

Methuselah's Children (1941)

Robotic Hand
A dexterous manipulator for robots.

The Door Into Summer (1956)

Rolling Road - public transport
A set of fast-moving strips to move people over distances.

The Roads Must Roll (1940)

Screensaver (Inventor of) - the original idea
Screen savers are used to prevent phosphor burnout in CRTs, and to provide restful entertainment on computer screens.

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

Security Restraint Field
A force field that restricts personal movement.

Between Planets (1951)

Selector Card
Pneumatic delivery of book films by using a mechanical form of data storage; selector cards - probably punch cards.

The Puppet Masters (1951)

Self-Lighting Cigarette
A cigarette with a matchhead built in.

Methuselah's Children (1941)

Shipstone - lots of power
A lot of power in a small, manufactured package.

Friday (1982)

Shuttle Ship - early Space Shuttle
A spacecraft that could take off from a planet, rendezvous with an object in orbit, and fly back to the surface like a glider.

Between Planets (1951)

Simulacrum Window
A 'window' that provides a realistic outdoor view in an interior room.

Tunnel in the Sky (1955)

Skew-Flip Turnover
Used halfway to the destination by torch ships to slow for one's destination.

Have Space Suit - Will Travel (1958)

Sleep Surrogate - substitute for sleep
Pharmaceutical designed to make up for lost sleep.

Methuselah's Children (1941)

Slideway - moving sidewalk
A slidewalk, or moving walkway, that moves people forward.

Beyond This Horizon (1942)

Smoke Filter
Allows grizzled spacemen to smoke in space ships.

Misfit (1939)

Solar Reception Screen - photovoltaics in action
A device for converting sunlight to electricity

The Roads Must Roll (1940)

Sound Analysis
Improving language teaching by showing the waveform of a spoken word or phrase, and comparing it to standard speech.

Assignment in Eternity (1953)

Space Suit Helmet Rearview Mirror
Having a way to easily see behind you while wearing a spacesuit.

Have Space Suit - Will Travel (1958)