Robert A. Heinlein Award, for "for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space."
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Peter Henlein (1479/80 – 1542), German locksmith and watchmaker, often considered the inventor of the portable timepiece
More sympathetic Fifth Internationalists appear in Henlein's later The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, where they are one of the assorted groups involved in the war of independence waged by the human-colonised Moon.
In Harry Turtledove's "Hitler's War", Henlein is assassinated by a Czech named Jaroslav Stribny around 28 September 1938.
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Henlein's political party's dominance of the Sudetenland in the 1930s contributed to the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, which was due in part to his influence with the British delegate Lord Runciman during the latter's visit of Czechoslovakia.