Time Enough for Love (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Heinlein
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future history
- Time of Work: 1916-4291
- Setting: Various planets throughout the galaxy including Earth, New Beginnings, Secundus, and Tertius
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, 1910’s, Time travel, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Earth, Genetics, Twins or multiple-birth siblings, Longevity, Clones or cloning
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
Lazarus Long (alias Woodrow Wilson Smith, Ernest Gibbons, Corporal Ted Bronson, and many others), born in 1912, is kidnapped and rejuvenated on the planet Secundus by the Howard Families Trustees in the year 4272. The trustees want to add his recollections, as the oldest person in the known galaxy, to the historical archives. Lazarus at first is unhappy with this turn of events because he does not want to be rejuvenated again. He makes a deal with Ira Weatheral, chief executive of the Howard Foundation on Secundus, that if Weatheral and his administrative computer,...
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