'The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail' In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no longer worth living, but, in what is described as a reverse Arabian Nights scenario, agrees not to end his life for as long as his companion, chief executive of the Howard Families and descendant Ira Weatheral, will listen to his stories. The first half of the book takes the form of several novellas connected by Lazarus's retrospective narrative. The result of more a mutation than the breeding experiment, he is the oldest living human, at more than two thousand years old. The book covers several periods from the life of Lazarus Long (born Woodrow Wilson Smith), an early beneficiary of a breeding experiment designed to increase mankind's natural lifespan, known as the Howard Families, after the program's initiator. By the time hed died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.Time Enough for Love by Robert A. He continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future.

His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941.

He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California.

Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there.

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