It is shame that the jacket art is uncredited, it shows the skeleton of a spaceship impaled on a futuristic tower. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974. In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no longer worth living, but (in what is described as a reverse Arabian Nights scenario) will consent not to end his life as long as his companions will listen to his stories. The first half of the book takes the form of several novellas connected by Lazarus's retrospective narrative. Heinleins longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it, and so in love with Time that he.
Cover artwork by: Will Staehle 'Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Episodes from the life of Lazarus Long (birth name: Woodrow Wilson Smith), the oldest living human, now more than two thousand years old. First printing, Trade paperback, New, 614 pp. One of Heinlein's (1907-88) best and longest science fiction books. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, jacket still bright and unsunned, some yellowing to page block and page fore edges, price clipped, no inscriptions, slight lean, internally clean and tight, overall a vg copy for its age. First published in 1973 in the US by Putnam & Co, this is the first UK edition, first impression published by NEL of 1974.
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