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Robert A.
Heinlein
Time Enough For Love -- Robert A. Heinlein -- (1973)

The Lives of Lazarus Long


For Bill and Lucy


TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE


The Lives of the Senior Member of the Howard Families (Woodrow Wilson
Smith; Ernest Gibbons; Captain Aaron Sheffield; Lazarus Long; "Happy" Daze;
His Serenity Seraphin the Younger, Supreme High Priest of the One God in All
His Aspects and Arbiter Below and Above; Proscribed Prisoner No. 83M2742; Mr.
Justice Lenox; Corporal Ted Bronson; Dr. Lafe Hubert; and others), Oldest
Member of the Human Race. This Account is based principally on the Senior's
Own Words as recorded at many times and places and especially at the Howard
Rejuvenation Clinic and at the Executive Palace in New Rome on Secundus in
Year 2053 After the Great Diaspora (Gregorian Year 4272 of Old Home Terra) --
and supplemented by letters and by eyewitness accounts, the whole then
arranged, collated, condensed, and (where possible) reconciled with official
records and contemporary histories, as directed by the Howard Foundation
Trustees and executed by the Howard Archivist Emeritus. The result is of
unique historical importance despite the Archivist's decision to leave in
blatant falsehoods, self-serving allegations, and many amoral anecdotes not
suitable for young persons.


INTRODUCTION

On the Writing of History

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion-i.e., none to
speak of.
-L.L.

The Great Diaspora of the Human Race which started more than two
millennia ago when the Libby-Sheffield Drive was disclosed, and which
continues to this day and shows no sign of slowing, made the writing of
history as a single narrative-or even many compatible narratives-impossible.
By the twenty-first century (Gregorian)* (*Gregorian Terran dates are used
throughout, as no other calendar, not even Standard Galactic, is certain to be
known to scholars of every planet. Translators should add local dates for
clarification. J.F. 45th) on Old Home Terra our Race was capable of doubling
its numbers three times each century-given space and raw materials.
The Star Drive gave both. H. sapiens spread through this sector of our
Galaxy at many times the speed of light and multiplied like yeast. If doubling