Time Enough for Love

Over two thousand years old and tired of living, Lazarus Long is coaxed by his descendants into recording his life story before he ends it — a bargain that unfolds into a sprawling, digressive chronicle of his many lives, marriages, and adventures across centuries and worlds. Interwoven with Lazarus's own aphorisms and philosophy, the narrative ranges from frontier planets to time travel back to his own boyhood.

Robert A. Heinlein uses Lazarus Long's extraordinarily long life as a vehicle for his most personal meditations on individualism, family, and mortality, making this one of his most ambitious and controversial novels.