Heinlein time enough for love5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Love finally turns out to be bearable for human beings, on the horizon of eternity, when it is commensurate with the power human beings have unleashed through modern natural science. The story’s really about the ultimate collapse of freedom and should be understood as a warning about the likely consequences of our modern confusions of American freedom.įinally, Heinlein’s most famous character, Lazarus Long, gets the completion for which he has always yearned. Time Enough for Love, published in 1973 and amply rewarded with prizes by sci-fi lovers, is the only dishonest Heinlein title there is. For one, the dreams of freedom from misery, and freedom from longing, turn into a lived inhumanity that’s by turns ridiculous and depressive. For once, in this novel, he showed the dark side of this complex mind. Heinlein certainly portrayed the American character this way time and again. As I keep saying, the joke about Americans is, you love nature almost as much as conquest of nature. ![]()
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