Haggard, H. Rider

practitioner of the lost race novel

Key Works

• King Solomon's Mines (1885)
• She (1887)

Haldeman, Joe

Key Works:

• The Forever War, winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula
• All My Sins Remembered
• Forever Peace, winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula
• "Tricentennial," Hugo winner

Hamilton, Edmund

Key Work: "Devolution"

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
1804-1864

American Romantic, awriter of gothic fantasy and also a master of the short story.

Both "The Birthmark" (1843) and "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844) contain elements of scientific experiments; however, Hawthorne was always more concerned with guilt and innocence than with science.

Heinlein, Robert A.
1907-1988
graduate of Annapolis
Golden Age
hard science fiction

demonstrated the way to incorporate scientific and cultural information efficiently and unobtrusively into the development of plot and characters.

Key stories include:

• "Life-Line" (August, 1939)
• "If This Goes On" (1940)
• "The Roads Must Roll"
• "All You Zombies"

A prolific author, Heinlein wrote a series of well received juvenile novels, and eventually invented a Future History series and set his stories in this universe.

Heinlein's juveniles include:

• Podkayne of Mars
• Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
• Time for the Stars

Key adult novels include:

• Starship Troopers
• Methusaleh's Children (1958)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

According to Casey Fredericks, Heinlein's novels typically have a twofold structure:

• a strong narrative action/adventure tale
• a "moral didactic section, composed in the form of a lecture or conversational essay"

Fredericks declares that more often than not, the moral of the story reverses the expectations established in the main narrative (16).

Heinlein's earlier novels are his best. I think he stopped being an entertaining and interesting writer about halfway through Stranger in a Strange Land.

Herbert, Frank

Key Work: Dune

Hilton, James
1909-1984

Key Work: Lost Horizon (1933), about the mythical land of Shangri-la.

Howard, Robert E.
1906-1936
sword and sorcery

wrote about the adventures of Conan the Barbarian

Hubbard, L. Ron

founder of the Church of Scientology

Key Work: Battleship Earth

Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963

Key Work: Brave New World (1932), set in an altered society six centuries in the future.