Достаточно времени для любви, или Жизни Лазаруса Лонга

"We have crossed the peak. Now our race could leave fifty planets, close ranks tighter and move on. Our gallant lamas will make up for the loss in one generation. But this is unlikely to happen; so far we have not been able to meet with one a race as unscrupulous, stubborn and treacherous as ours..." Mankind has conquered the cosmos, but it faces a new, completely unexpected choice. And the decision must be made without delay ... About all this and not only in the book Time Enough for Love, or the Life of Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)

Robert Heinlein's novel is unusual both in its plot and in its structure. This is a symphony novel. Fear not, dear sci-fi lovers, it has everything you should like, including sci-fi. It's just made according to musical canons - prelude, counterpoint, interludes, there are even variations on the theme. Lazarus Long, known to readers since Heinlein's early work "Children of Methuselah", is a long-liver, moreover, the oldest representative of the human race (at the time of the novel's action - 4325 Earth year - he had already exceeded two thousand (!!!) years), who had passed the way (born 1912) from US Navy cadet to… Interplanetary trader, one of the richest men in the galaxy, successful colonialist, generous, loving husband — and despite this, a man willing to risk all his connections, all his fortune to participate in the experiment over time and return to the days of childhood ...