From the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Starship Troopers "and the first Grand Master of Science Fiction... Lazarus Long 1916-4272 The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, " Time Enough for Love "follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.
De Wereld als Mythe Reeks
Deze saga duikt in de diepten van het bestaan, met thema's als een lang leven, tijdreizen en het 'universum hoppen'. De verhalen zitten vol filosofische overpeinzingen over de mensheid, maatschappijen en de aard van de werkelijkheid zelf. Lezers worden meegenomen op buitengewone reizen die de grenzen van het bekende universum overschrijden. Het is een viering van grenzeloze mogelijkheden en diepe menselijke verlangens.
Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
A brilliant, but eccentric scientist has invented a space/time machine and using the three space and three time co-ordinates, he has discovered a possible 666 alternative universes ...666 being associated with the biblical Beast of Revelations. Into this theme, Heinlein weaves his own galaxy of incredible ingredients - a Martian penal colony where the British empire wars with Imperial Russia; a universe with no letter "I"; Multiperson Pantheistic Solipsism; and the possibility that the mythical Beast may not be mythical at all...
The Cat Who Walks through Walls
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Robert A. Heinlein has written some of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time, including the beloved classic STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. Now, in THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS, he creates his most compelling character ever: Dr. Richard Ames, ex-military man, sometime writer and unfortunate victim of mistaken identity. When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Ames is thrown head first into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions where Lazarus Long still thrives, where Jubal Harshaw lives surrounded by beautiful women, and where a daring plot to rescue the sentient computer called Mike can change the direction of all human history.
Bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein's autobiographical masterpiece--a wondrous return to the alternate universes that all Heinlein fans have come to know and love.Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead...Filled with the master's most beloved characters, To Sail Beyond the Sunset broadens and enriches Heinlein's epic visions of time and space, life and death, love and desire...