![]() The framing device is cunningly designed to allow the three stories to be told in a manner that feels almost natural. It is definitely one of Heinlein’s author tracts. It is steeped in a curious mixture of warmth and affection mingled with a cool pragmatism and – to some extent – ruthlessness that one might expect a four-thousand-year old man to possess. On the face of it, Time Enough for Love is one of the Lazarus Long/Howard Families stories, yet large parts of it consist of Lazarus recounting his adventures (and telling us about the life of a man who might have been a friend of his). ![]() Time Enough for Love is, I think, one of the oddest of Heinlein’s later works. TL:DR – Lazarus Long plays Scheherazade, gets his groove back and seduces his mother. ![]() When faced with a choice of evils, accept the least hazardous and cope with it, unblinkingly. ![]()
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