Comic-Con 49th Robert A. Heinlein
Blood Drive 2025
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Comic-Con’s Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive, San Diego Blood Bank’s largest and longest-running blood drive, returned for its 49th year, with donation areas located in the Grand Hall A at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel and at San Diego Blood Bank Donation Centers.
The growth of our blood drive over the years has been phenomenal. The Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive began at San Diego Comic-Con back in 1977 at the El Cortez Hotel. That first year, 148 pints of blood were collected, and as the convention has grown, so has our blood drive. Our 2025 blood drive collected 15,216 pints of blood!
In our long history, a total of 108,420 pints of blood have been donated by Comic-Con attendees, exhibitors, professionals, volunteers, and staff! San Diego Blood Bank estimates that your donations have impacted more than 300,000 lives over the course of our 49 years hosting the blood drive!
Robert A. Heinlein’s 1951 novel, Between Planets, helped popularize the phrase “Pay It Forward.” Please make it a point to pay it forward in 2026 and save people’s lives at our 50th Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive. Donations are desperately needed.
All donors received a free Fantastic Four T-shirt from Marvel Studios, and other goodies including Eisner-nominated books, plus donors had a chance to win one of the many special prizes donated to the Blood Bank by our exhibitors and staff.
YOU CAN DONATE ANYTIME BEFORE THE CONVENTION
Attendees, volunteers, and staff! Donate before the convention and ask for a certificate of donation. Tell them your donation is for Comic-Con, and the group code is: CCON
On-site during the convention, bring your certificate to Comic-Con’s Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive at the Hyatt, pick up your T-shirt and giveaways, and see if you’ve won a prize! Sorry, only one certificate per person will be accepted.
请抽出时间拯救生命！捐赠！
漫展罗伯特-A-海因莱因献血活动简史
对于科幻小说迷来说，很少有人能像罗伯特-A-海因莱因（Robert A. Heinlein）那样大名鼎鼎。从《星舰奇兵》到《异乡怪客》，海因莱因是科幻作家中的佼佼者。遗憾的是，他很少出席大会，因此他的读者很少有机会见到这位大师本人。
20 世纪 70 年代初，海因莱因得了一种危及生命的疾病，需要许多品脱的稀有血型。他觉得自己的生命要归功于献血者，因此当被邀请作为嘉宾出席 1976 年在家乡堪萨斯城举行的世界大会时，他同意了--但有一个特别的规定：他只为献血者签名。
Thus, longtime Comic-Con committee member Jackie Estrada approached the author with an offer to hold a blood drive in San Diego if he would consent to be a guest. He agreed, and in 1977 Heinlein came to Comic-Con. He and his wife, Ginny, had a great time and Heinlein even drew a picture for the Sunday morning Art Auction.”David Scroggy [who went on to be a VP at Dark Horse Comics before he retired] was the first blood drive coordinator,” recalls Estrada. “We also had Theodore Sturgeon there signing his book, Some of Your Blood, which he gave to all of the blood donors. We also had entertainment for the people while they were [donating blood]. I remember that Leslie Cabarga played the piano, and C. C. Beck played the guitar. It was a very fun event and Robert was delighted. We’ve had the blood drive every year since.”
罗伯特-A-海因莱因简史
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular and respected science fiction authors of the 20th century. By setting a high standard for science and engineering plausibility, he helped raise the genre’s standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s with unvarnished science fiction. He was also among the first authors of bestselling novel-length science fiction in the modern mass-market era.
Four of Heinlein’s novels (Double Star, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) won Hugo Awards in the years they were published. In 2001, another novel (Farmer in the Sky) and a novella (The Man Who Sold the Moon) received “Retro Hugos” for the year 1951, and the movie Destination Moon, which was based on a Heinlein story, received the “Retro Hugo” for Best Dramatic Presentation.
他是第一位被美国科幻小说作家协会授予终身成就大奖的作家。
海因莱因被誉为 "科幻小说家的院长"，但他的意义远不止于此。他是一位慈善家，帮助过许多慈善事业和个人。当被问及如何才能报答他的帮助时，他会回答说："你不能报答我，你必须向前报答。"
One cause that was of great importance to him was blood donation. Having a rare blood type himself (AB+), he was a frequent donor and a supporter of the National Rare Blood Club, which was an integral part of his novel I Will Fear No Evil. In 1976, at the 34th World Science Fiction Convention in Kansas City, he helped organize the first of many science fiction convention blood drives. In 1977, he did the same at San Diego Comic-Con.
2025 marked the 49th year of the Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive as an integral part of Comic-Con, and the 17th year of the WonderCon Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Blood Drive.