The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

July 7, 2012

July 7, 1907

Robert Heinlein, (July 7, 1907 to May 8, 1988), includes among his acclaimed masterpieces, a novel about Mars titled The Rolling Stones (1952). This early work introduced flat cats: cuddly, fluffy, and amazingly prolific. Heinlein says he got the idea for flat cats, from a story by Ellis Parker Butler, whose 1906 "Pigs is Pigs", is a short story. Butler's story may have first defined the theme of the unexpected consequences of rapid reproduction in a bourgeois setting. A bourgeois setting, would itself become a joke, when set in outer space, and so it was for Heinlein, and for David Gerrold (January 24, 1944), who carried on the humor with "The Trouble with Tribbles," an early, and justly famous, Star Trek episode.
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