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Heinlein and the Howards

Nephilaine Protagonist
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Join date: 22 Jul 2003
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10-25-2004 12:28
Robert Heinlein: he rocks me.
But I'm REALLY in love with Lazarus Long and his ancestors/decendants. In fact, I adore all the Howard-affiliated charachters I've met :)

I'm looking for more titles that have plotlines that involve the various Howards and thier kin- any Heinlein fans out there that can help me out and reccomend some titles?
So far my favorites in this vein have been:
Time Enough For Love
To Sail Beyond The Sunset

:D
thanks
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Devlin Gallant
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10-25-2004 13:38
The first collection was "The Past Through Tomorrow" I think.
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
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10-26-2004 09:50
Gotta agree with you about Heinlein: I read a collection of his stories about ten years ago and totally got into his writings. Good stuff, alot of it visionary when you consider when he wrote it all.
Archaegeo Platini
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10-26-2004 13:34
http://www.bobgod.com/writer/lazaruslong.html
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Corwin Weber
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10-26-2004 19:41
From: Nephilaine Protagonist
Robert Heinlein: he rocks me.
But I'm REALLY in love with Lazarus Long and his ancestors/decendants. In fact, I adore all the Howard-affiliated charachters I've met :)

I'm looking for more titles that have plotlines that involve the various Howards and thier kin- any Heinlein fans out there that can help me out and reccomend some titles?
So far my favorites in this vein have been:
Time Enough For Love
To Sail Beyond The Sunset

:D
thanks


Both of those pretty much wrap up the whole story.... (they contain retellings of various aspects...) The Cat Who Walked Through Walls is another in that bunch, and.... *thinks* boy I'd really have to research that. A lot of the LL stuff isn't written as separate novels, they come up through a lot of short stories.
Tinker LaFollette
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Join date: 6 Jan 2004
Posts: 86
10-26-2004 22:44
Lazarus Long was introduced in the novella (novelette?) "Methuselah's Children", part of Heinlein's "Future History" timeline. The character reappeared in Time Enough for Love, "The Number of the Beast--", The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and To Sail Beyond The Sunset, in that order. The later books draw in characters from many of Heinlein's other works (including some that aren't part of the Future History timeline), mainly from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and The Rolling Stones.

The aphorisms from Time Enough for Love have also been published as a separate book, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long.

For my money though, Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress were his best.

EDIT: Corrected title of "Methuselah's Children"
Lazarus Lumiere
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Join date: 4 Jun 2004
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10-26-2004 23:34
The first appearence of Lazarus Long (and, yes, I'm a fan too - if LL had the surname Long I'd have been all over it) was the book Methuselah's Children, which details the persecution and exodus of the Howard families from Earth. Time Enough for Love was the re-introduction of Lazarus Long, and the book from which many of the aphorisms were taken. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and To Sail Beyond the Sunset were the last books that Heinlein wrote.
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