Interspersed with the above is the story of how Long, Weatherall, and others established a colony and family together on a new world. A man who, unlike poor Dora, is an immortal. Once Dora is husband-high, the man she sets her cap for is none other than the man who raised her.
Long inadvertently commits wife-husbandry after rescuing an infant girl from the fire that kills the rest of her family. This leaves the problem of teaching them how to be self-sufficient, as well as the issue of what to do about the siblings’ mutual attraction. Slavery is abhorrent to Long and he immediately frees his slaves.
In what is almost certainly not a hat tip to Captain Pausert, Long purchases a brother and sister who, thanks, to creative genetic engineering, are genetically dissimilar.
Set in the 20 th century, this tells the tale of a man whose successful career was possible thanks to his skill at rules-lawyering and creative slacking-off. The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail Long regales an inexorably growing crowd of descendants with three novella-length stories: Chairman pro tem of the planet Secundus, Ira Weatherall, tempts the Methuselah with the one thing he cannot resist: an audience. His descendants are not done with him and while dying may be every person’s right, it is not one Lazarus will get to enjoy. Time weighs heavily on the ancient grognard. By the beginning of TEFL, he is an impressive two millennia old. Lazarus Long was a mere 213 years old when he first appeared in Methuselah’s Children. As is this review.Īnd yes, I am aware this book was nominated for a Nebula 1, a Hugo 2, and a Locus 3. It is by no means the worst of Heinlein’s books - that’s probably Number of the Beast, although I am told that The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, which I have not read, gives NotB a run for its money - but considered as a whole, TEFL is not very good. I no longer remember why I thought it would be a good idea to review 1973’s Time Enough For Love.
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