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Title	:	Methuselah's Children (Future History or "Heinlein Timeline" #22)
Author	:	Robert A. Heinlein
Book Format	:	hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 276 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1986 by Baen (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Fantasy. Classics. Speculative Fiction. Adventure

Methuselah's Children (Future History or "Heinlein Timeline" #22) hardcover | Pages: 276 pages

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After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All.

No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them: nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality...

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Original Title:	Methuselah's Children
ISBN:	0671655973 (ISBN13: 9780671655976)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Future History or "Heinlein Timeline" #22, Lazarus Long
Characters:	Lazarus Long, Andrew Jackson "Slipstick" Libby

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I just loved this book silly. It's early Heinlein packed with adventure and excitement. Two of my favorite characters, Lazarus and Libby are front and foremost in this story, and it provides a lot of color and background for the Howard families. I read this story after others that are chronologically prior in the Future History, and it works either way. This would be a great starter book for new Heinlein exploration.2015: I finally got around to reading this one with the kids. It really hooked

Reading old science fiction generally involves a certain disconnect - you've got people hopping back and forth to the Moon, yet still behaving in many ways like your grandparents' generation. Even beyond that, though, this one has problems. The premise: among normal humanity there live, semi-secretly, the Howard Families, who through selective breeding have massively expanded their lifespan, and spend those long lives at an age of their choosing. When the short-lived majority find out, they

Finally a "CLASSIC" that live up to the billing.I had grown weary of the same old trite - "You HAVE to read"s - that just didnt live up to the billing.Having read a lot of Larry Niven, and now starting on the Heinlein series', I think it is safe to guess Niven grew up on Heinlein, as I see some pretty serious similarities between Lazarus and Louis Wu, but since I have loved the Niven, it follows I loved the Heinlein.I may have been aided in this by expecting to be let down after slogging thru

3.5 stars. I was pleasantly surprised by this. Not being much of an RAH fan, I was not expecting much beyond his using the story as a thin veil for his political rantings and ravings. To be sure, there was some of that, though it mostly took a backseat to a genuinely fun, engaging story with minimal kitsch and some interesting, unexpected twists. The story, and much of the science it expounds, holds up, in my inexpert opinion, quite well today, many decades after it was first published in 1958.

Heres the latest in my re-read of Heinleins Future History series.This one is slightly different, in that it is more of a novel than a short story, which is what the previous elements have mainly been. The background is that Methuselahs Children was first a long story published in Astounding in 1941, but, like some of the other elements of the Future History, was revised and expanded into a novel in the late 1950s.However, this is, at least in its updated form, perhaps the most retrofitted into

Originally posted at FanLit.Methuselahs Children introduces us to Lazarus Long, a popular character in several of Robert A. Heinleins books. Lazarus, who wears a kilt (but theres guns strapped to his thighs!) and cant remember how old he is, is descended from one of several families who, long ago, were bred for their health and longevity. Lazarus and his extended clan live very long lives so long that they must eventually fake their own deaths and take new identities so that others dont get

A must read for any true sci-fi fan! Simply outstanding!Selective breeding and carefully planned marriages with subtle financial encouragement from a secretive group called the Howard Foundation carried out over the last 150 years have resulted in a group of humans that have the extraordinary trait of extreme longevity - Lazarus Long, the patriarch of the Family, born Woodrow Wilson Smith, carries his two hundred plus years quite well! When pressed for his true age, he's either not telling or he