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Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1973.
The book is about Lazarus Long, the universe's oldest living person, who is tired of living and wants to die.
The book takes the form of several Novellas tied together in the form of Lazarus's retrospective narrative.
One of the stories is about a US naval cadet who was "too lazy to fail." A lengthy, western-style story about his days as a pioneer surprises us, being rather un SF fare for a book proclaimed as a SF classic. There are two "intermissions", taking the form of lists of provocative phrases and aphorisms, each about four pages long. Another story is the high-tech colonization of a planet in the "modern" way. There is a bit of time travel at the end.
This book gets tied in with The Number of the Beast also by Robert A. Heinlein, and through it is tied to The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and several other Heinlein novels.
