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The Underlying Option Expiration By Terry Rossio It can be a bit painful to see a film head into production, based on a book that you’ve adapted, but it’s not the adaptation you’ve done. I’ve had that happen three times. Neil Gaiman’s wonderful Sandman graphic novel series. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, which eventually…
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For the tenth year in a row, the Society will raffle off a complete set of the Virginia Edition in September, 2026. All you have to do is join or stay a member! A $45 Regular membership is all it takes to enter. The rules follow: Eligibility: “Regular” members who join or renew their…
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The Annual Meeting was held on 14 September 2025, 4:00 pm eastern time. DRAFT 2024 Annual Meeting Minutes with Roll Call were approved as submitted with no corrections. The presentation slides are linked here: 2025 THS Annual Meeting Slides .
We ended our Heinlein birthday celebration by dropping the newest issue of The Heinlein Journal! Some really good stuff in there. Current regular and lifetime members get the issue as a benefit of their membership and should have gotten a direct email announcing it. Not a member? You can join us right now and then…
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Happy Birthday Mr. Heinlein! In your honor we have awarded four more scholarships in STEM fields today. Read all about it at: Scholarship Program
Balticon 59 took place May 23-26, 2025 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel. The Society had its “usual” presence with a fan table and stalwarts Betsey Wilcox, Will Hamilton, and Ty Arnold travelling in. We had local members Beatrice & Ursula Kondo, Herb Gilliland, and John Tilden to complete the “staffing” of the fan table.…
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The Heinlein Society asks for your birthdate to have some demographic information about its members and website users. We have found that some operating systems (Android in particular) have a non-intuitive way to change your year of birth. If you are presented with this: Your next step to change the year will be to click…
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The Annual Meeting was held on 8 September 2024, 4:00 pm eastern time. DRAFT 2024 Annual Meeting Minutes with Roll Call are now available. These will be approved at the 2025 Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting Slides are linked. Zoom link and call-in information were sent out to members. You can reference a copy…
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by the Board & Chairs Peanut Gallery Balticon 58 was held over Memorial Day weekend May 24-27, 2024. Secretary Betsey Wilcox and Elections Chair Will Hamilton travelled along with Director Jim Dutton to join up with locals Director Beatrice Kondo, Heinlein Journal Editor Herb Gilliland, and Operations Chair John Tilden. We met up with several…
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Come to a meal during Balticon 58 honoring 2024 Heinlein Award Winner Tom Doherty! 3 Course meal with choice of 4 Entrees, non-alcoholic drinks, tip, tax and surcharge, private room $80.00 per person Attendance Limited to 20 guests with payment by 15 May 2024 Alcoholic beverages are available on a separate per person check…
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It was worth the wait! follow the link for Issue #31 of The Heinlein Journal to purchase outright or download with a coupon code as a regular or Lifetime member. Check your email by 16 Feb 2024 for the particular code you should use.
BE SURE TO USE YOUR ORIGINAL EMAIL ADDRESS WITH US. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE email TO CHECK BEFORE YOU ACCIDENTALLY CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT…WE CAN HELP CHANGE AN EMAIL ADDRESS AS WELL. 1. Log into your account on heinleinsociety.org 2. At the left side of the “dashboard” page for “My Account” there will…
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The Board of the Society voted tonight for its new leadership & Executive Committee effective immediately: President & Chairman: Ken Walters Vice President: Walt Boyes Treasurer: Geo Rule Secretary: Betsey Wilcox Congratulations to all of them! Note: The website contact addresses will be updated over a short period of time; you may continue to use…
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Thanks to all who voted in the Society’s recent election for the Board of Directors. There were 4 open slots voted upon due to Herb Gilliland resigning from the Board. •The 3-year terms will be filled by Geo Rule, Jim Dutton, and John Seltzer (reelected) •Walt Boyes (reelected) will fill the remainder of Herb Gilliland’s…
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BE SURE TO USE YOUR ORIGINAL EMAIL ADDRESS WITH US. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE email TO CHECK BEFORE YOU ACCIDENTALLY CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT…WE CAN HELP CHANGE AN EMAIL ADDRESS AS WELL. 1. Log into your account on heinleinsociety.org 2. At the left side of the “dashboard” page for “My Account” there will…
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Our 2023 Annual Meeting was held on 10 September 2023 starting at 4:00 pm Eastern. The 2022 Annual Meeting Minutes were reviewed and accepted as a part of business. You can read a copy of the 2023 Annual Meeting Presentation with housekeeping information deleted. At the link, there is a reading copy of FY 2023…
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The following email went out on 9 July 2023 to our longest PayPal subscribers. Rest assured you are still members with an active subscription. This cancellation on PayPal was necessary to have users do renewals through our website. Dear Member: Thank you for being a member of The Heinlein Society with a recurring PayPal…
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This email was sent out on 12 July 2023 but some PayPal subscription cancellations took place on 8 July 2023. Dear Member: Firstly, thank you for being a member of The Heinlein Society. Recently, we have made some changes you should know about. Since our inception we have been keeping manual records via an…
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Balticon 57 May 26-29, 2023 The Society had a wonderful time at 2023’s Balticon, held again at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel. Balticon, run by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society and many volunteers, is a very reader/writer/artist-centric convention. The Heinlein Society has maintained a presence at Balticon for almost its entire existence. Since THS has a…
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Society Vice President Ken Walters was recently featured on episode 81 of Since The World’s Been Turning. The podcast that discusses the points mentioned in Billy Joel’s song, We Didn’t Start The Fire. While the topic of discussion was nominally the book Stranger in a Strange Land, the podcast touches on most of Heinlein’s biography. …
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Update 2/20/23: The email was an mistake by our website support company. I can also verify that member information was NOT compromised with the email being sent out. Those that responded to the email, it sets passwords etc. within a testing instance of our website, so it is safe to ignore. ——————————————————- Original Post: An…
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July 7, 2024 Our Scholarship Winners For 2024 We had a major change to our scholarship program this year –incoming freshmen are no longer eligible. This resulted in a substantial reduction in the number of applications we received, from 744 last year to 235 this year. A much more manageable workload for our committee, though…
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The Society is proud to announce our scholarship fund drive! We are raising money to fully-fund an investment account to take care of scholarship giving going forward at our 2022 levels. Find out how you could own a book from Heinlein’s library as a thank-you for donating to this drive. Full information here.
This is a post to hold the information about the Society’s Annual Meeting which was held on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. until about 5:45 p.m. All meeting materials have been posted to allow anyone dialing-in by voice-only to follow along. 2022 Annual Report (this document has the Board of…
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