Series
Lazarus Long
Robert A. Heinlein · 6 novels · 4 short stories · 1958–2020
Lazarus Long is the recurring protagonist of a loose sequence of Robert A. Heinlein novels, beginning with Methuselah's Children (1958) and continuing through Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset, with the posthumously assembled The Pursuit of the Pankera joining the group decades later. Born in 1912 into a multi-generation longevity-breeding program, Long survives for over two thousand years through periodic rejuvenation, and the later novels follow him through increasingly unconventional adventures across time and alternate realities. The books were written independently across more than sixty years rather than as a planned series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Lazarus Long at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s1
- 1960s0
- 1970s5
- 1980s3
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s0
- 2020s1
Shape
6 novels · 4 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionimmortalityspacefar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 71% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 10 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (excerpts from Time Enough for Love)darkest · calmest
- The Number of the Beastbrightest
- The Pursuit of the Pankeramost intense