Every time I get to Dora's story, I blubber like a baby. ' Quite possibly my favorite book of all time.

' In his later years Robert Heinlein's work was the sex obsessed musings of an old perv. The book itself reads clumsily at times, but who cares: it's the ideas, the morality, the epic vision of what we can be. ' THIS is how one begins an intelligent conversation. ' Good story but the content made it hard to read at times. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.I have read this book a couple of times since, and love coming back to it each time. For some reason old Lazarus Long really spoke to me as a teenager. 'My previous favorite SF book (before I read Ender's Game), and the single novel that has had the most profound impact on me. His use of slang, technical jargon, sharp wit, and clever understatement lend this story a texture and authority that seems the very tone of things to come. Time Enough for Love is his lovingly detailed account of his journey through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Using the voice of Lazarus, Heinlein expounds his own philosophies, including his radical ideas on sexual freedom. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries, his love for time ultimately causing him to become his own ancestor. Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. By the time he died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.Time Enough for Love is the capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein’s famous Future History series. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. Heinlein’s books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future. His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there.

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