Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was amo...
Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love
Synopsis
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.
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Lazarus LongProtagonist
The oldest living human, recounting centuries of his lives before choosing to die.
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Time Enough For LovePaperback, Oct
640 pages
AceISBN: 97805934372475 editions available
