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Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The book made the shortlist for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards for best science fiction novel of that year, [1] although it did not win. It did win a retrospective Libertarian Futurist Society award: the Prometheus Hall of Fame ...
Lapis Lazuli Long – Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast; Llita – Time Enough for Love; Lazarus Long (a.k.a. Woodrow Wilson Smith) – Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, To Sail Beyond the Sunset; Lorelei Lee Long – Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast
Maureen Johnson Smith Long (July 4, 1882 – "June 20, 1982") most often referred to as Maureen Johnson, is a fictional character in several science fiction novels by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. She is the mother, lover, and eventual wife of Lazarus Long, the longest-living member of Heinlein's fictional Howard families. She is the only ...
Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard Foundation, Lazarus (birth name Woodrow Wilson Smith) becomes unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years with the aid of occasional rejuvenation treatments.
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long is a 1978 collection of aphorisms by Robert Heinlein's main character, "Lazarus Long", excerpted from his 1973 novel Time Enough for Love. [1] The aphorisms were originally published as two "intermission" sections in the novel.
One of the central themes of the book is the importance of love in human life. In discussing love, Lazarus and the other characters develop the distinction between Agape (spiritual love) and eros (sexual love). Later in the novel, Lazarus credits his friends and family with reminding him of the importance of love, thereby restoring his will to ...
In addition, Maureen lives through, and gives her (sometimes contradictory) viewpoints on many events in other Heinlein stories, most notably the 1917 visit from the future by "Ted Bronson" (Lazarus Long), told from Long's point of view in Time Enough for Love, D. D. Harriman's space program from The Man Who Sold the Moon, and the rolling roads ...
Heinlein wrote, "I grew so fond of Maureen [from the Puddin' stories] that I helped her to get rid of that excess weight, changed her name to 'Podkayne', and moved her to Mars (along with her unbearable kid brother)." [22] Heinlein felt that a particular ending for Podkayne of Mars, published in 1963, was dramatically necessary to the story ...