Robert A. Heinlein
was a Japanese-born American astrophysicist who also wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani. He edited "Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master" (1992), and contributed to "New Destinies, Vol. VI/Winter 1988—Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue" (1988), after his friend, writer Robert A. Heinlein, died in 1988.