Question: What is the difference between the fiction writing of Robert A. Heinlein and Jonathan Carroll?

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Red Planet (novel): Red Planet is a 1949 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about students at boarding school on the planet Mars.  It represents the first appearance of Heinlein's idealized Martian elder race (see also "Stranger in a Strange Land").  The version published in 1949 featured a number of changes forced on Heinlein by Scribner's, since it was published as part of the Heinlein juveniles.  After Heinlein's death, the book was reissued by Del Rey Books as the author originally intended.

Kissing the Beehive: Kissing the Beehive is a crime novel by American writer Jonathan Carroll, published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in late December 1997.  When the novel was published in Great Britain the following year, Carroll added a three-page epilogue at the request of its publisher, Victor Gollancz.  It is the first novel of his Crane's View Trilogy.  Director David Lynch once expressed an interest in directing a film version of the novel.  "Kissing the Beehive" was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in 1999.

Glass Soup: Glass Soup is a surreal fiction novel written by the American writer Jonathan Carroll, first published in 2006.  It tells the story of a group of people who live in Vienna.  They find out that they are caught in a battle of Gods and Chaos.  This fiction consists many elements of Judeo-Christian mythology and popular culture mythos.  It is a blend of real and unreal, living and dead, and good and evil.

Expanded Universe (book): Expanded Universe is a 1980 collection of stories and essays by Robert A. Heinlein.  In full, its title is Expanded Universe, The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein.  The trade paperback 1981 edition lists the subtitle under other Heinlein books as "More Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein" because the contents subsume the 1966 Ace Books collection, "The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein".  The current volume is dedicated to William Targ.

Jonathan Carroll: Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy.  He has lived in Austria since the 1970s.

Robert A. Heinlein: Robert Anson Heinlein ( ; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.  Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", his sometimes controversial works continue to have an influential effect on the genre, and on modern culture more generally.

Bones of the Moon: Bones of the Moon is a novel by Jonathan Carroll, depicting the real and dream life of a young woman, Cullen James.  Like many of Carroll's works, this work straddles the horror and fantasy genres.

The Panic Hand: The Panic Hand is a collection of horror stories by the American writer Jonathan Carroll, first published in 1996.  Carroll has written 8 novels prior to this collection, including The Land of Laughs and A Child Across the Sky.

Leonard Sillman: Leonard Sillman (May 9, 1908 - January 23, 1982) was an American Broadway producer.  Born in Detroit, Michigan on May 9, 1908, he was the brother of June Carroll, the brother-in-law of Sidney Carroll and the uncle of Steve Reich and Jonathan Carroll.  He is perhaps best known for his series of musical revues, "Leonard Sillman's New Faces", which introduced many major stars to Broadway audiences, such as Eartha Kitt, Inga Swenson, Paul Lynde and Maggie Smith.  Versions of "New Faces" were produced in 1934, 1936 (made into the film "New Faces of 1937"), 1943, 1952 (made into the film "New Faces"), 1956, 1962 and 1968.  The very first "New Faces" in 1934 included actors Henry Fonda, Imogene Coca and Frances Dewey Wormser.

SFStory: SFStory was originally a creative fiction writing group on the now-defunct UMNEWS mailing list service.  After UMNEWS collapsed, the group was merged in 1991 with the more active Superguy creative fiction writing group and mailing list, with which it shared many active writers.

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Answer: Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy.