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The millions of fans of Lazarus Long--probably Heinlein's most beloved character--will flock to this new tale, which continues adventures of the characters of The Cat Who Walked Through Walls. From the author of Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love.
- Sales Rank: #87132 in Books
- Brand: Ace
- Published on: 1988-06-01
- Released on: 1988-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.10" w x 4.20" l, .49 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 448 pages
- Great product!
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''Exuberant and spirited . . . unquestionably one of the major, defining works of Robert A. Heinlein's long and successful career.'' --San Jose Mercury News
''A tour de force . . . In a strange and moving way, To Sail beyond the Sunset may be the finest work in the dean's lengthy career!'' --Kansas City Star
''Absorbing and involving!'' -- Kirkus Reviews
''A family reunion for Heinlein's characters . . . a well-attended gathering.'' --Houston Post
About the Author
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre.
He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future.
Robert A. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. By the time hed died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.
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70 of 75 people found the following review helpful.
Heinlein sails beyond the sunset
By John S. Ryan
Robert Heinlein spiked this one into the end zone as he dropped. What an ending to his career.
(The title is a reference to a line in Tennyson's 'Ulysses', having to do with accomplishments in old age, and it's undoubtedly intended to describe what Heinlein himself was up to here. He succeeded.)
A word of warning, though -- if you didn't like _Time Enough for Love_, stay away from this one. Even (if possible) more than its predecessor, this one just oozes s-e-x, including wife-swapping, incest, and other stuff probably not in conformity to the mores of your tribe. In my view, it's all very tastefully and responsibly handled, but then my own opinions on such matters (including my devout antigrundyism) were in large measure informed by massive reading of RAH during my formative years. Just be aware that the usual suspects have dismissed this novel as pornographic trash.
At any rate, this novel was clearly a labor of love for Heinlein. In it, he gets to revisit the world of his childhood (or close to it; he actually has to start a bit earlier than his own birth).
You see, it's the story of one of Heinlein's most compelling heroines: Maureen Johnson Long, of the Howard Families, mother (and co-wife) of Woodrow Wilson Smith (a.k.a. Bill Smith a.k.a. Ernest Gibbons a.k.a. Lafe Hubert a.k.a. Aaron Sheffield a.k.a. Lazarus Long). And she lived just down the road a piece from Heinlein (and Sam Clemens, who makes a nice cameo appearance in her memoirs).
There's a thin shell of story around it, but most of the novel consists of Maureen narrating her life to herself (and us). We learn a lot about her unconventional childhood and her interesting relationship with her father (Lazarus's Gramp, Ira Johnson). We watch her grow up, get married (to fellow Howard Family member Brian Smith), make a home, bear children, and do all sorts of other things.
Of course since the stuff that happened in Heinlein's 'Future History' stories didn't actually come to pass in _our_ world (no rolling roads, for example, and our moon shot was a government affair), Lazarus and his kin must hail from an alternative timeline. And sure enough -- right around the beginning of the Second World War, we start to see events that diverge from our own history. But boy, it turns out Maureen was there behind the scenes for quite a bit of that 'Future History'; she knew Delos Harriman, was sleeping with George Strong, and provided some crucial assistance to what in her world was the first lunar landing.
Great stuff, filled with the wonderful narrative, dialogue, and characterization that Heinlein's longtime readers had learned to expect -- not to mention the Old Man's usual range of soapboxery and iconoclasm, in spades. And it's always good to see Lazarus again.
As I've said elsewhere, I credit Heinlein with three absolutely magisterial SF novels: _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, _Double Star_, and _The Door Into Summer_. This is one of his near-magisterial second-tier novels; it falls just ever so slightly short because I think there's a wee bit too much 'fitting Maureen into the cracks' of his previous novels.
Speaking of which: Be sure to read _Time Enough for Love_, _The Number of the Beast_, and _The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_ before you read this one; they form a series. At some point you'll also want to read _Methusaleh's Children_ and Heinlein's 'Future History' stories (collected in _The Past Through Tomorrow_; find a used copy). But though helpful, it's not absolutely necessary to have read them first.
Anyway -- this one's a keeper. I can't tell you how many times I've reread it (along with _TEFL_ and the rest). These are some of the _realest_ characters to be found in SF, or for that matter in any fiction. I won't speak for you, cobber, but my own life is much better for having met these people.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
A little skewed
By C. Martin
I started reading Heinlen when I was eight, and didn't know that some of the books he wrote were written for kids while others for adults until AFTER I had read both Time Enough for Love and Friday at the age of eleven. Due to this, a large chunk of my social and political views were molded in a slightly different cast as my peers as Heinlen is,as my father put it, "the only man who could ever start a cult I would join" (which would have proably horrified him). Having said that, take my review with a grain of salt.
This is proabably my LEAST favorite Future History series of books, if only because it seemed to have the least point. The rampant incest, free love, pokes at organized religion, and general snubbing of societal rules bothers me not even a little. However, unlike most of Heinlen's books, I didn't finish this one feeling like I had figured out a little more about the world I live in, or the world I want to live in. There are aspects of Mama Maureen I take to heart in my own life, but unlike TEFL which I quote at my friends ad naueseum and attempt to work into the way I live my day to day life, I finished To Sail Beyond the Sunset feeling oddly empty. While I greatly enjoy the later Heinlen's, I don't enjoy when there is an Us/Them mentalitly to them. The thing I like most about TEFL, I Will Fear No Evil, and Friday is that I can get wrapped up in the story without worrying about who wins and who loses. To Sail Beyond the Sunset attempts the same feeling without being quite as succesful.
Having said that, I would kill to have Ira Johnson in my life, be one of Mama Maureen's children, and I'm still a hoping deep down inside to get to go travelng with Dora and Laz and Lor, and of course Lazarus. I live by the Eleventh Commandment and try to emulate Maureen's definition of a lady at every chance, and parts of this book have stuck with me between readings as with every Heinlen novel I've ever read (and as of last week I have read every piece of fiction he ever put into a book). I've read this book easly twenty-five times, I'm just saying it is ABSOLUTELY NOT the first or even fifth Heinlen to read, if you didn't like TEFL stop now, and be prepared to put the pre-imprinted notions of society to the side while reading this one, and expect to be a little uncomfortable if you can't.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A fitting epitaph to a great man's work
By A Customer
In reading this book, Heinlein's last, I was absolutely blown away. It is arguably the broadest work Heinlein produced, but in many ways it is also the quietest and most subtle.
Part sci-fi, part autobiography, part social history, _To Sail Beyond The Sunset_ offers in great detail what _Time Enough For Love_ and _"The Number of the Beast ..."_ only hinted at: Maureen.
We first met Maureen Johnson Smith when Lazarus Long, assuming the name "Theodore Bronson," visited his childhood home and subsequently fell in love with his mother. Our next visit with Mama Maureen came in _"The Number of the Beast..."_ when Hilda, Zebbie, Deety, and Jake all joined forces to rescue her from an oncoming 18-wheeler. It was almost too much, getting only this brief glimpse of her, because the next book she was featured in, _The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_, badly underused her character.
This is exactly what I had been waiting for. It was a chance for me not only to meet up with some of my favorite characters (including Lazarus Long, Pixel the cat, and the Boondock gang) but also to gain new perspective on one of Heinlein's most interesting, and most human, characters.
Much of the narrative here concerning Maureen's autobiography is reputed to be an autobiographical account of Heinlein's own childhood and life experiences. Whether based on actual events or not, Maureen's life seems almost frighteningly real. It is a strength, and not a weakness, that most of this book does not intend to be science fiction: the narrative is based mostly on the life of a very unusual woman.
A richly woven novel full of beautiful and poetic vignettes, _To Sail Beyond The Sunset_ is a novel to be read and cherished. Not only does it flesh out Maureen, but it also brings together his "Future History" short stories and other favorite characters.
_To Sail Beyond The Sunset_ is an absolute must read for all lovers of science fiction, and a special treat for Heinlein's fans. His last work is indeed a fitting epitaph for a long and distinguished career.
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