Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

Called “Da Capo” – a title that’s retained as the heading of the last 150-page section of the story – the story was originally to be included in a planned five-book series of Future History stories for Shasta Publishers, which published The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth and Revolt in 2100.

The core of the story, however, was developed years earlier. 1 Started on March 13, 1972, Heinlein wrote his novel over the course of 119 days, finishing on July 7 – his 65th birthday. Published in July 1973, Time Enough For Love was Heinlein’s fiction follow-up to I Will Fear No Evil. (I have read – or rather, listened to – To Sail Beyond the Sunset, which is from Maureen Smith’s point of view, and covers at least some of the same ground.) This book is part of Heinlein’s “Future History” series, and the stories do get rather jumbled.

Some pieces of it seemed familiar, but it may just be that bits of this book are shared in other of Heinlein’s stories. I think I must have read bits of it before, though I don’t recall. Also, there is the absurdity of having two of Heinlein’s longest novels at the front end of the series, which makes no sense so far as I can tell.Ĭonfusion aside, I liked the story of Time Enough For Love much better. I didn’t intend for there to be such a long hiatus, but things got in the way. It’s been almost a year since I reviewed the first volume of the Virgina Edition, I Will Fear No Evil.

This post is part of a series on the Virginia Edition of Robert A.

Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein