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Orphans of the Sky. Methuselah's Children is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in the July, August, and September 1941 issues, it was expanded into a full-length novel in 1958.
4.01. 20,662 ratings400 reviews. 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.
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Eleanor Johnson, a young Howard woman, 27 years old, is a new mother when the story begins. Horace Foote is a hero. Plot Synopsis. Because Ira Howard, a self-made Victorian era millionaire, finds himself dying of old age while in his mid-40s, his Will institutes a foundation to encourage discovery of a means to prolong human life.
Dec 19, 2020 · Methuselah’s Children, inducted by the LFS in 1997 into the Prometheus Hall of Fame, is a short novel by today’s standards, yet it manages to squeeze multiple plots and ideas into just over 150 pages. The gist of the novel centers around an extended “family” whose members share a common trait, in that they’re unusually long-lived.
Dec 17, 2017 · 17 December 2017. Fact & Opinion. One of Heinlein’s early novels, Methuselah’s Children, is the first to introduce his “Future History,” a series of interrelated books and stories beginning a few hundred years in the future. It’s in this novel that his recurring character, Lazarus Long, is first introduced.
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Feb 9, 2019 · Boiled down to essentials, the ultimate point of Methuselah’s Children is “there’s no place like home,” that in the future Mankind manages to travel light-years from their point of origin to find that aliens are odd and scary and therefore want to go back to their home planet, not for the benefit of the human race but because they are ...
Sep 11, 2022 · September 11, 2022September 11, 2022 by jameswharris. Methuselah’s Children by Robert A. Heinlein. Methuselah’s Children first appeared 81 years ago this summer, in the July, August, and September 1941 issues of Astounding Science-Fiction. In 1948, Erle Korshak gave Heinlein a $200 advance to publish the serial at Shasta Press.
