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. 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.Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. Using the voice of Lazarus, Heinlein expounds his own philosophies, including his radical (for 1946) ideas on sexual freedom. Time Enough for Love is his lovingly detailed account of his journey through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries. Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. He is “the senior” – the oldest man alive in the Galactic Year 2053 – the man who is forever young.Īnd Heinlein traces his fantastic life – or lives – through many marvelous identities: from Lazarus Long who lead the first great exodus from Earth to Aaron Sheffield, interstellar star-ship captain, through to Ted Bronson, the time-traveler, catapulted through time back to Earth in 1916. And there is time enough indeed for love, as Lazerus Long’s lifespan covers 23 centuries. Heinlein, award-winning maestro of the SF world, surpasses himself in this, his most powerful novel.

Time enough for love