Time Enough for Love

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Authors: Robert A Heinlein

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Robert A. Heinlein graduated from Annapolis, where he was a champion swordsman, and served in the navy for five years. He began writing fiction in 1939 and soon won recognition as one of the towering figures of science fiction, winning the coveted Hugo Award for the best science fiction novel of the year on four separate occasions, an unequaled record. Mr. Heinlein died in May 1988.

Books by Robert A. Heinlein

Books by Robert A. Heinlein

ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY

THE BEST OF ROBERT HEINLEIN

BETWEEN PLANETS

THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS

CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

DESTINATION MOON

THE DOOR INTO SUMMER

DOUBLE STAR

EXPANDED UNIVERSE: MORE WORLDS OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

FARMER IN THE SKY

FRIDAY

THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH

HAVE SPACE SUIT—WILL TRAVEL

I WILL FEAR NO EVIL

JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE

THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON

THE MENACE FROM EARTH

METHUSELAH’S CHILDREN

THE NOTEBOOKS OF LAZARUS LONG

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

ORPHANS OF THE SKY

THE PUPPET MASTERS

RED PLANET

REVOLT IN 2100

ROCKET SHIP GALILEO

THE ROLLING STONES

SIXTH COLUMN

SPACE CADET

THE STAR BEAST

STARMAN JONES

STARSHIP TROOPERS

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

THREE BY HEINLEIN

TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE

TIME FOR THE STARS

TOMORROW THE STARS (Ed.)

TO SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET

TRAMP ROYALE

TUNNEL IN THE SKY

THE UNPLEASANT PROFESSION OF JONATHAN HOAG

WALDO & MAGIC, INC.

THE WORLDS OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE

An Ace Book / published by arrangement with
G. P. Putnam’s Sons

PRINTING HISTORY
G. P. Putnam’s Sons edition published 1973
G. P. Putnam’s / Berkley edition / January 1974
Ace edition / August 1988

All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1973 by Robert Heinlein.
Cover art by James Warhola.
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Dedication

For
Bill and Lucy

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

PRELUDE

I

 

II

COUNTERPOINT

I

II

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

I

Affairs of State

II

The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail

III

Domestic Problems

COUNTERPOINT

III

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

IV

Love

COUNTERPOINT

IV

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

V

Voices in the Dark

VI

The Tale of the Twins Who Weren’t

VII

Valhalla to Landfall

VIII

Landfall

IX

Conversation Before Dawn

X

Possibilities

INTERMISSION

Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

XI

The Tale of the Adopted Daughter

XII

The Tale of the Adopted Daughter (continued)

SECOND INTERMISSION

More from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

XIII

Boondock

XIV

Bacchanalia

XV

Agape

XVI

Eros

XVII

Narcissus

DA CAPO

I

The Green Hills

II

The End of an Era

III

Maureen

IV

Home

V

VI

VII

CODA

I

II

III

IV

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