I met Bob Heinlien three times. First, as a fifth-grader when I read "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel; next, during the summer between grade school and junior high when I read, for the first time, "Starship Troopers"; finally I met Bob at a party at some science fiction convention we were attending when my wife introduced us. In real life he was even better than his books.



And that's saying a lot.