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Description
Sure, there's time enough for love...but who has time enough to get through 281/2 hours of a novel as dull as this? It opens 22 centuries in the future, when the ruler of a remote colony planet tries to keep 2000-year-old Lazarus Long from committing suicide before he passes on what he has... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Lazarus Long: Born in 1912 in the third generation of a long-life selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard Foundation, Lazarus (whose birth name is Woodrow Wilson Smith) turns out to be unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years with the aid of occasional rejuvenation treatments
First Sentence
As the door of the suite dilated, the man seated staring glumly out the window looked around.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Prelude
I
II
Counterpoint
I
II
Variations on a Theme
I - Affairs of State
II - The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail
III - Domestic Problems
Counterpoint
III
Variations on a Theme
IV - Love
Counterpoint
IV
Variations on a Theme
V - Voices in the Dark
VI - The Tale of the Twins Who Weren't
VII - Valhalla to Landfall
VIII - Landfall
IX - Conversation Before Dawn
X - Possibilities
Intermission--
Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Variations on a Theme
XI - The Tale of the Adopted Daughter
XII - The Tale of the Adopted Daughter (continued)
Second Intermission
More from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Variations on a Theme
XIII - Boondock
XIV - Bacchanalia
XV - Agape
XVI - Eros
XVII - Narcissus
Da Capo
I - The Green Hills
II - The End of an Era
III - Maureen
IV - Home
V - <quick>
VI - <quick>
VII - <quick>
Coda
I - <quick>
II - <moderate>
III - <slow>
IV - <quick>
Authors & Contributors
- Robert A. Heinlein (Author)
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