# Sci-Fi Pseudonyms

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-pseudonyms/28990>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 11, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-pseudonyms/28990 "2000-08-11T17:13:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Akatsukami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-pseudonyms/28990/21 "2000-09-06T13:06:22Z")

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**Chronos** writes:

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> I’m pretty sure that Heinlein had another pseudonym or two that he used rarely (for instance, he wrote a couple of stories for girls under a pseudonym)

Not really, unless we consider that they’re being published under the byline “R. A. Heinlein” instead of “Robert A. Heinlein” constitutes use of a pseudonym.

Heinlein used “Lyle Monroe” for pre-WWII short stories that he didn’t think were up to the quality of his Heinlein/MacDonald work.

More information on Heinlein’s pseudonyms and other Heinleiniana can be found on [the Robert A. Heinlein Home Page](http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/) (and, before anyone asks, no, I am not James Gifford).

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-pseudonyms/28990/22 "2000-09-06T13:19:53Z")

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AFAIK, Murphy never used the Merriwell or Maxwell psuedo-psuedonyms prior to _There and Back Again_. They were created for the series.

From what I can understand from her afterward to _Wild Angel_, the third book will be metafiction about how you write differently whether you think of yourself as male or female. Neither Merriwell nor Maxwell are characters in the first two books, though “they” will probably be characters in it.

A more straightforward example of this sort of metafictional conceit was the book _Lords of the Swastika_ by Adolph Hitler. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-pseudonyms/28990/23 "2000-09-06T14:22:37Z")

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Thanks for clearing that up, RealityChuck. (Was going to shorten your name to just ‘Chuck’ but then read the sentence aloud…eeeeee…)

Sounds tres interesting, will have to look those up.

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