Time Enough For Love

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1. rwmjApr 2026
   Time Enough for Love. IMHO much better than Stranger in a Strange Land.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love

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2. branonDec 2025
   The Gulag Archipelago is on my shelf, when I rotate back to Russian authors (big fan of Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Bulgakov) I will hopefully get to it.

   Here's my log for 2025, most recent at the top. Currently I am slogging my way through Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast" which I'm not a fan of. Halfway done with it though!

   Gabrielle Zevin, "The Hole We're In" (not my usual genre, enjoyed this though)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land" (pretty good)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love" (PHENOMENAL, highly recommended)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "Methuselah's Children" (pretty good, required to understand "Time Enough for Love")

   Richard K. Morgan, "Altered Carbon" (very good)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "The Rolling Stones" (young adult, but good all the same)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (very good)

   Piers Anthony, "On A Pale Horse" (very good, never got very far into the series though)

   Lincoln Child, "Full Wolf Moon" (okay, not great)

   Lincoln Child, "The Forgotten Room" (pretty good)

   Lincoln Child, "The Third Gate" (very good)

   Lincoln Child, "Terminal Freeze" (okay, not great)

   William Gibson, "In the Beginning… Was the Command Line" (good, but outdated, look up what he's said about it more recently)

   Lincoln Child, "Deep Storm" (very good)

   James Patterson, "Along Came a Spider" (not my usual genre, okay though)

   Jules Verne, "Around the World in 80 Days" (from childhood, revisited)

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3. madhadronDec 2025
   "Time Enough for Love" is the only Heinlein I've felt any inclination to reread in the past few decades that held up at all (and it's still a good read).
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4. RagnarDDec 2023
   - Most works by Heinlein esp. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Tunnel In The Sky, Time Enough For Love

   - Many other works by Asimov

   - The Rama series by A.C. Clarke

   - Gateway and other novels in the same universe, by Fred Pohl

   - The earlier novels of James P. Hogan esp. The Two Faces Of Tomorrow and The Genesis Machine

   - The Complete Venus Equilateral, by George O. Smith

   Much more, of course, but a good start.

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5. clbrmbrSep 2023
   I think if the author read Time Enough for Love, they would understand where their math went wrong.
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6. ycombineteMay 2023
   There are many avid sci-fi fans here. So it's likely as much to do with piqued interest (scientific or philisophical), as it is to do with not wanting to die.

   Someone who loved reading Time Enough for Love, or Permutation City, is probably going to be interested in the subject.

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