There once was a time that I would watch the magazine racks and the bookstores for new works by Robert A. Heinlein. He is gone now, but I keep watching for news. His estate occasionally finds treasures like his lost novel or an outline of an unwritten story, and I always buy and read these.

For a long time, Heinlein’s wife Ginny was very careful about Robert’s image and some writings and details of his life that might have been less flattering were suppressed. Ginny Heinlein is gone now and stories have been coming out about the great man’s life and accomplishments as well as news of his feet of clay.

Now a very in-depth official biography has been written by William H. Patterson, Jr.

This looks to be a good read and should answer at least a few of the questions that I’ve had about what made Bob Heinlein tick. I have pre-ordered it and the book should arrive in the second half of August.

There will be series of articles over at tor.com about RAH.