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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data">Robert A. Heinlein</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Birth year</th><td class="infobox-data">1912</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Birth place</th><td class="infobox-data">Earth</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ethnicity</th><td class="infobox-data">Caucasian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Oldest (fictional) member of the human race</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">In-universe information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Full name</th><td class="infobox-data">Woodrow Wilson Smith</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alias</th><td class="infobox-data">Ernest Gibbons<br />Captain Aaron Sheffield<br />"Happy" Daze<br />Proscribed Prisoner No. 83M2742<br />Mr. Justice Lenox<br />Dr. Lafayette 'Lafe' Hubert<br />Corporal Ted Bronson<br /><i>His Serenity Seraphim the Younger, Supreme High Priest of the One God in All His Aspects and Arbiter Below and Above.</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Gender</th><td class="infobox-data">Male</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data">Senior</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">actor, musician, beggar, farmer, priest, pilot, politician, con artist, gambler, doctor, lawyer, banker, merchant, soldier, electronics technician, mechanic, restaurateur, investor, bordello manager, and slave.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Family</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Howard_families" title="Howard families">Howard families</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Lapis Lazuli, Lorelei Lee (XX-parity clones), as well as many others unnamed.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">American</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lazarus Long</b> is a fictional character featured in a number of <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> novels by American writer <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>. Born in 1912 in the third generation of a <a href="/wiki/Selective_breeding" title="Selective breeding">selective breeding</a> experiment run by the <a href="/wiki/Howard_families" title="Howard families">Ira Howard Foundation</a>, Lazarus (birth name <b>Woodrow Wilson Smith</b>) becomes unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years with the aid of occasional <a href="/wiki/Rejuvenation_(aging)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rejuvenation (aging)">rejuvenation</a> treatments. Heinlein "patterned" Long on science fiction writer <a href="/wiki/Edward_E._Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward E. Smith">Edward E. Smith</a>, mixed with <a href="/wiki/Jack_Williamson" title="Jack Williamson">Jack Williamson</a>'s fictional Giles Habibula.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His exact (natural) life span is never revealed. In his introduction at the beginning of <i><a href="/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children" title="Methuselah's Children">Methuselah's Children</a></i>, he claims he is 213 years old. Approximately 75 years pass during the course of the novel, but because large amounts of this time are spent traveling close to the <a href="/wiki/Speed_of_light" title="Speed of light">speed of light</a>, the 75-year measurement is an expression of the time elapsed on Earth, rather than time seen from his perspective. At one point, he estimates his natural life span to be around 250 years, but this number is not expressed with certainty. He acknowledges that such a long life span should not be expected as a result of a mere three generations of selective breeding, but offers no alternative explanation except by having a character declare: "A mutation, of course — which simply says that we don't know".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>Methuselah's Children</i>, Long mentions visiting Hugo Pinero, the scientist appearing in Heinlein's first published story "<a href="/wiki/Life-Line" title="Life-Line">Life-Line</a>", who had invented a machine that precisely measured lifespan. Pinero refuses to reveal the results of Lazarus's reading and returns his money. </p><p>The promotional copy on the back of <i><a href="/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love" title="Time Enough for Love">Time Enough for Love</a></i>, the second book featuring Lazarus Long, states that Lazarus was "so in love with time that he became his own ancestor", but this never happens in any of the published books. In the book, Lazarus does travel back in time and is seduced by his mother, but this takes place years after his own birth. Heinlein did, however, use just such a plot device in the short story <span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span><a href="/wiki/All_You_Zombies" title="All You Zombies">'—All You Zombies—'</a><span style="padding-left:.15em;">"</span>, in which a character becomes both of his own parents. </p><p>A rugged individualist with a distrust of authority, Lazarus drifts from world to world, settling down periodically and leaving when the situation becomes too regimented for his taste, often just before an angry mob arrives to capture him. </p><p>The Lazarus Long set of books involve <a href="/wiki/Time_travel" title="Time travel">time travel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parallel universe (fiction)">parallel dimensions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Free_love" title="Free love">free love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Individualism" title="Individualism">individualism</a>, and a concept that Heinlein named <a href="/wiki/World_as_Myth" class="mw-redirect" title="World as Myth">World as Myth</a> — the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, such that even fictional worlds are real. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Appearances">Appearances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lazarus_Long&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Appearances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Novels featuring Lazarus include: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children" title="Methuselah's Children">Methuselah's Children</a></i> (serialized 1941, expanded to novel 1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love" title="Time Enough for Love">Time Enough for Love</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)" title="The Number of the Beast (novel)">The Number of the Beast</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cat_Who_Walks_Through_Walls" title="The Cat Who Walks Through Walls">The Cat Who Walks Through Walls</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Sail_Beyond_the_Sunset" title="To Sail Beyond the Sunset">To Sail Beyond the Sunset</a></i> (1987)</li></ul> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Lazarus_Long" title="The Notebooks of Lazarus Long">The Notebooks of Lazarus Long</a></i>, a book containing sayings of the character Lazarus Long largely taken from <i>Time Enough for Love</i>, was published in 1978. </p><p>James Gifford postulates that Doctor MacRae in <i>Red Planet</i> may also be another incarnation of Lazarus Long: "McRae's [sic] actions and description, combined with Lazarus Long's brief discussions of his early history in <i>Methuselah's Children</i> and <i>Time Enough for Love</i>, would seem to say so. There is no conclusive evidence one way or another. But the pieces fit together rather well, and Heinlein must have had some reason for including the anomalous and cryptic reference to McRae's [sic] recall of events that apparently predate his birth."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Methuselah's_Children"><span id="Methuselah.27s_Children"></span><i>Methuselah's Children</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lazarus_Long&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Methuselah's Children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the character of Lazarus Long is introduced in <i><a href="/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children" title="Methuselah's Children">Methuselah's Children</a></i>, he is 213 years old, and the breeding experiment that created the <a href="/wiki/Howard_families" title="Howard families">Howard Families</a> has proven to be a success, with most "Howards" enjoying a lifespan of approximately 150 years and changing identities periodically to conceal their long lifespans. Ten percent of them have elected to end "The Masquerade" and live publicly, with the approval of the Howard Foundation, but this process has backfired. </p><p>The general public of Earth, once exposed to the Howards' lifespan, believes incorrectly that the Howards have discovered an anti-aging process that they are choosing to conceal, and come to resent them. <a href="/wiki/Civil_liberty" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil liberty">Civil liberties</a> applied to the Howards are suspended and, with the exception of Lazarus, the entire membership of the Howard Families is detained. </p><p>With the aid of the elected head of the world government, Slayton Ford, Lazarus hijacks the <i>New Frontiers</i>, a starship designed to travel to distant stars, and liberates the Howards. While the <i>New Frontiers</i> was designed to sustain a colony in travel at speeds significantly below the <a href="/wiki/Speed_of_light" title="Speed of light">speed of light</a>, a Howard named <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Libby" title="Andrew Jackson Libby">Andrew Jackson "Slipstick" Libby</a> increases the ship's top speed to nearly the speed of light. With the ship thus modified, the Howard Families, under the leadership of Lazarus Long, escape the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a> in search of a planet of their own. </p><p>The first planet they encounter is populated by the Jockaira, an intelligent species that has been domesticated for another, unnamed and undescribed, species, whom they worship as gods. When the latter discover that the humans cannot be domesticated, all of the humans are forcibly removed from the planet and placed in their ship, which is then transferred to another star system and planet by means of technology sufficiently advanced that it is not observable by the humans. </p><p>This second planet is populated by a diminutive furry species called the "Little People", who are a very advanced <a href="/wiki/Collective_intelligence" title="Collective intelligence">collective intelligence</a>. They are very accommodating to the humans. In fact, their world is pleasant enough to be considered a <a href="/wiki/Paradise" title="Paradise">paradise</a>. After many years, Mary Sperling — a close friend of Lazarus and the second-oldest of the Howard Families — joins the collective intelligence in order to escape <a href="/wiki/Thanatophobia" class="mw-redirect" title="Thanatophobia">thanatophobia</a>, whereupon Lazarus and many other Howards return to <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>. Approximately twelve thousand remain behind. </p><p>Upon return to Earth, the Howards learn that a rejuvenation treatment has been developed to approximate the secret of longevity supposedly held by them, thus permitting Lazarus, who has grown old, to regain his youth. </p><p>Note that Heinlein's basic concept in Methuselah's Children bears some similarities to George Bernard Shaw's <i>Back to Methuselah</i>, which Heinlein had mentioned having read. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Time_Enough_for_Love"><i>Time Enough for Love</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lazarus_Long&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Time Enough for Love"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the beginning of this book, Lazarus has grown weary of life and decides to die. He returns to Secundus, where a standing order is in place to notify the Chairman Pro Tempore of the Howard Families if he came on world. He is located and, without his <a href="/wiki/Informed_consent" title="Informed consent">consent</a>, subjected to rejuvenation at the behest of his descendant Ira Weatheral, Chairman <i>Pro Tempore</i> of the Howard Families, who believes that the society and culture of Secundus are in death throes, and wishes to lead the Families to a new planet named Tertius, having had Lazarus advise him in doing so. Lazarus later agrees, promising to commit <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> if Ira does not meet his demands, and in exchange, Ira orders a search to find Lazarus a new amusement. This search, using a "<a href="/wiki/Morphological_box" title="Morphological box">Zwicky box</a>", is performed by an <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> named Minerva, who handles most of the computerized functions of the planetary government, is in love with Ira, and becomes friends with Lazarus. Meanwhile, the latter's rejuvenator, named <a href="/wiki/Ishtar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ishtar">Ishtar</a>, and Ira's daughter, named <a href="/wiki/Hamadryad" title="Hamadryad">Hamadryad</a>, both give birth to female clones of him, their <a href="/wiki/Y_chromosome" title="Y chromosome">Y chromosome</a> being replaced by an identical copy of the <a href="/wiki/X_chromosome" title="X chromosome">X chromosome</a>, producing "daughters" named Lapis Lazuli and Lorelei Lee. Lazarus' advice to Ira appears alternately as <a href="/wiki/Proverb" title="Proverb">proverbs</a> and as stories. </p><p>Lazarus assists Ira in the migration to Tertius, settles the latter, and attempts a trans-temporal journey to Earth, around 1919–1929, but mistakenly arrives in 1916, there to insinuate himself into his parents' family under the name of "Ted Bronson", whom his grandfather Ira suspects to be an illegitimate nephew or son of his own. Lazarus also discovers, to his surprise and (initial) shame, a sexual desire of his own mother, <a href="/wiki/Maureen_Johnson_(Heinlein_character)" title="Maureen Johnson (Heinlein character)">Maureen</a>. When his family learns that he has no plans to join the <a href="/wiki/Army" title="Army">army</a> in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, they spurn him, prompting him to enlist. His genetic father, Brian Smith, an officer, makes arrangements for him to go overseas, thinking that he is doing "Ted" a favor. </p><p>Before deployment, Lazarus again visits his family, whereupon he learns that Maureen is as attracted to him as he is to her. She explains that her husband does not insist on <a href="/wiki/Fidelity" title="Fidelity">fidelity</a>, although she is careful not to become pregnant by any man but Brian, and being newly pregnant, consummates her attraction to Lazarus. Overseas, Lazarus is seriously wounded in combat, but is rescued by his Tertian household. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_novels">Other novels</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lazarus_Long&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Other novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)" title="The Number of the Beast (novel)">The Number of the Beast</a></i>, the main characters discover a way to travel to fictional worlds, and in the course of their explorations, visit the world of Lazarus Long. Using the technology of these characters' ship (which can travel through space and time), Lazarus snatches his mother out of the time stream at the end of her life and replaces her with a dead clone. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)#The_Pursuit_of_the_Pankera" title="The Number of the Beast (novel)">The Pursuit of the Pankera</a></i>, which is a parallel novel of <i>The Number of the Beast</i>, Lazarus is mentioned by the name "Doc Lafe Hubert" (a known alternate name for Lazarus), who claims to have "delivered over twelve thousand babies[,] about fifty of them his own", and later in the book: "After this ruckus, Maureen wants your family to visit ours."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lazarus also appears as a minor character in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cat_Who_Walks_Through_Walls" title="The Cat Who Walks Through Walls">The Cat Who Walks Through Walls</a></i> and plays a role in Heinlein's last novel, <i><a href="/wiki/To_Sail_Beyond_the_Sunset" title="To Sail Beyond the Sunset">To Sail Beyond the Sunset</a></i>, which is the life story of Maureen. In the former novel, Lazarus is revealed at the end of the novel as the father of protagonist Colin "Richard Ames" Campbell, whereas in the latter novel, Maureen as narrator tells a somewhat different version of Lazarus' visit to Earth in 1916–1918, details that information about the future received from Lazarus was crucial to the Howard Foundation's survival of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>, and reveals that Lazarus (as Woodrow "Bill" Smith) was the backup pilot of the first lunar expedition. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lazarus_Long&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">William H. Patterson, <i>Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century</i>, volume 1, Tor Books, 2011, p. 273.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Justin Foote the 45th in the (in-fiction) Introduction in <i><a href="/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love" title="Time Enough for Love">Time Enough for Love</a></i>, p. xvi.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gifford, James (2000). Robert A. Heinlein: A Readers Companion. 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Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Future_History_(Heinlein)" title="Future History (Heinlein)">Future History</a></i></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon_(short_story_collection)" title="The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection)">The Man Who Sold the Moon</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Hills_of_Earth_(short_story_collection)" title="The Green Hills of Earth (short story collection)">The Green Hills of Earth</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Revolt_in_2100" title="Revolt in 2100">Revolt in 2100</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orphans_of_the_Sky" title="Orphans of the Sky">Orphans of the Sky</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Past_Through_Tomorrow" title="The Past Through Tomorrow">The Past Through Tomorrow</a></i> (1967)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children" title="Methuselah's Children">Methuselah's Children</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress" title="The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress">The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love" title="Time Enough for Love">Time Enough for Love</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)" title="The Number of the Beast (novel)">The Number of the Beast</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cat_Who_Walks_Through_Walls" title="The Cat Who Walks Through Walls">The Cat Who Walks Through Walls</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Sail_Beyond_the_Sunset" title="To Sail Beyond the Sunset">To Sail Beyond the Sunset</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pursuit_of_the_Pankera" class="mw-redirect" title="The Pursuit of the Pankera">The Pursuit of the Pankera</a></i> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short <br /> stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Life-Line" title="Life-Line">Life-Line</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Let_There_Be_Light_(Heinlein_short_story)" title="Let There Be Light (Heinlein short story)">"Let There Be Light"</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll" title="The Roads Must Roll">The Roads Must Roll</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Blowups_Happen" title="Blowups Happen">Blowups Happen</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon" title="The Man Who Sold the Moon">The Man Who Sold the Moon</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Delilah_and_the_Space_Rigger" title="Delilah and the Space Rigger">Delilah and the Space Rigger</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Space_Jockey" title="Space Jockey">Space Jockey</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Requiem_(short_story)" title="Requiem (short story)">Requiem</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Long_Watch" title="The Long Watch">The Long Watch</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gentlemen,_Be_Seated!" title="Gentlemen, Be Seated!">Gentlemen, Be Seated!</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Black_Pits_of_Luna" title="The Black Pits of Luna">The Black Pits of Luna</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/It%27s_Great_to_Be_Back!" title="It's Great to Be Back!">It's Great to Be Back!</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/%E2%80%94We_Also_Walk_Dogs" title="—We Also Walk Dogs">—We Also Walk Dogs</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Searchlight_(short_story)" title="Searchlight (short story)">Searchlight</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ordeal_in_Space" title="Ordeal in Space">Ordeal in Space</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Green_Hills_of_Earth" title="The Green Hills of Earth">The Green Hills of Earth</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Logic_of_Empire" title="Logic of Empire">Logic of Empire</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Menace_from_Earth" title="The Menace from Earth">The Menace from Earth</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/%22If_This_Goes_On%E2%80%94%22" title=""If This Goes On—""><span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>If This Goes On—<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span></a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Coventry_(short_story)" title="Coventry (short story)">Coventry</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Misfit_(short_story)" title="Misfit (short story)">Misfit</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Orphans_of_the_Sky" title="Orphans of the Sky">Universe</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Orphans_of_the_Sky" title="Orphans of the Sky">Common Sense</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Characters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lazarus Long</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Lazarus_Long" title="The Notebooks of Lazarus Long">The Notebooks of Lazarus Long</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delos_D._Harriman" title="Delos D. Harriman">Delos D. Harriman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jubal_Harshaw" title="Jubal Harshaw">Jubal Harshaw</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Competent_man" class="mw-redirect" title="Competent man">Competent man</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maureen_Johnson_(Heinlein_character)" title="Maureen Johnson (Heinlein character)">Maureen Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Libby" title="Andrew Jackson Libby">Andrew Jackson Libby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazel_Stone" title="Hazel Stone">Hazel Stone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Worlds_of_Robert_A._Heinlein" title="The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein">The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Expanded_Universe_(Heinlein)" class="mw-redirect" title="Expanded Universe (Heinlein)">Expanded Universe</a></i> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Robert_A._Heinlein" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Template:Robert A. 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Heinlein bibliography">Bibliography</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Future_History_(Heinlein)" title="Future History (Heinlein)"><i>Future History</i></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon_(short_story_collection)" title="The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection)">The Man Who Sold the Moon</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Hills_of_Earth_(short_story_collection)" title="The Green Hills of Earth (short story collection)">The Green Hills of Earth</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Revolt_in_2100" title="Revolt in 2100">Revolt in 2100</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children" title="Methuselah's Children">Methuselah's Children</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orphans_of_the_Sky" title="Orphans of the Sky">Orphans of the Sky</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Past_Through_Tomorrow" title="The Past Through Tomorrow">The Past Through Tomorrow</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love" title="Time Enough for Love">Time Enough for Love</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Lazarus_Long" title="The Notebooks of Lazarus Long">The Notebooks of Lazarus Long</a></i> (1978)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">World as Myth</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)" title="The Number of the Beast (novel)">The Number of the Beast</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cat_Who_Walks_Through_Walls" title="The Cat Who Walks Through Walls">The Cat Who Walks Through Walls</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Sail_Beyond_the_Sunset" title="To Sail Beyond the Sunset">To Sail Beyond the Sunset</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)#The_Pursuit_of_the_Pankera" title="The Number of the Beast (novel)">The Pursuit of the Pankera</a></i> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Heinlein_juveniles" title="Heinlein juveniles">Scribner's <br /> juveniles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rocket_Ship_Galileo" title="Rocket Ship Galileo">Rocket Ship Galileo</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Space_Cadet" title="Space Cadet">Space Cadet</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Planet_(novel)" title="Red Planet (novel)">Red Planet</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farmer_in_the_Sky" title="Farmer in the Sky">Farmer in the Sky</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Between_Planets" title="Between Planets">Between Planets</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_(novel)" title="The Rolling Stones (novel)">The Rolling Stones</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Starman_Jones" title="Starman Jones">Starman Jones</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Star_Beast_(novel)" title="The Star Beast (novel)">The Star Beast</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tunnel_in_the_Sky" title="Tunnel in the Sky">Tunnel in the Sky</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Time_for_the_Stars" title="Time for the Stars">Time for the Stars</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Citizen_of_the_Galaxy" title="Citizen of the Galaxy">Citizen of the Galaxy</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Have_Space_Suit%E2%80%94Will_Travel" title="Have Space Suit—Will Travel">Have Space Suit—Will Travel</a></i> (1958)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/For_Us,_the_Living" title="For Us, the Living">For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs</a></i> (1939/2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_This_Horizon" title="Beyond This Horizon">Beyond This Horizon</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sixth_Column" title="Sixth Column">Sixth Column</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Puppet_Masters" title="The Puppet Masters">The Puppet Masters</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Variable_Star" title="Variable Star">Variable Star</a></i> (1955/2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Double_Star" title="Double Star">Double Star</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer" title="The Door into Summer">The Door into Summer</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Starship_Troopers" title="Starship Troopers">Starship Troopers</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land" title="Stranger in a Strange Land">Stranger in a Strange Land</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Podkayne_of_Mars" title="Podkayne of Mars">Podkayne of Mars</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glory_Road" title="Glory Road">Glory Road</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farnham%27s_Freehold" title="Farnham's Freehold">Farnham's Freehold</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress" title="The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress">The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Will_Fear_No_Evil" title="I Will Fear No Evil">I Will Fear No Evil</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Friday_(novel)" title="Friday (novel)">Friday</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice" title="Job: A Comedy of Justice">Job: A Comedy of Justice</a></i> (1984)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Robert_Heinlein_Omnibus" title="The Robert Heinlein Omnibus">The Robert Heinlein Omnibus</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Unpleasant_Profession_of_Jonathan_Hoag_(collection)" title="The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (collection)">The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Worlds_of_Robert_A._Heinlein" title="The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein">The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Expanded_Universe_(book)" title="Expanded Universe (book)">Expanded Universe</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Requiem_(short_story_collection)" title="Requiem (short story collection)">Requiem</a></i> (1992)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nonfiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Take_Back_Your_Government" title="Take Back Your Government">Take Back Your Government</a></i> (1946/1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tramp_Royale" title="Tramp Royale">Tramp Royale</a></i> (1954/1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grumbles_from_the_Grave" title="Grumbles from the Grave">Grumbles from the Grave</a></i> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Screenplays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Destination_Moon_(film)" title="Destination Moon (film)"><i>Destination Moon</i> (1950)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Moonbase" title="Project Moonbase"><i>Project Moonbase</i> (1953)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Robert_A._Heinlein_characters" title="List of Robert A. Heinlein characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Delos_D._Harriman" title="Delos D. Harriman">Delos D. Harriman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jubal_Harshaw" title="Jubal Harshaw">Jubal Harshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maureen_Johnson_(Heinlein_character)" title="Maureen Johnson (Heinlein character)">Maureen Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Libby" title="Andrew Jackson Libby">Andrew Jackson Libby</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lazarus Long</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazel_Stone" title="Hazel Stone">Hazel Stone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Legacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heinlein_Centennial" title="Heinlein Centennial">Heinlein Centennial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinlein_Society" title="Heinlein Society">Heinlein Society</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein_Award" title="Robert A. Heinlein Award">Robert A. 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