robert a heinlein the number of the beast

Shortly after telling the story Lazarus mistakenly calls David 'Donald', which is intended to make the reader think that the story is a roman à clef and actually refers to Lazarus himself.

This story concerns a 20th-century United States Navy seaman, midshipman, and officer, David Lamb, who receives multiple promotions while minimizing any semblance of real work or combat by applying himself enthusiastically to the principle of 'constructive laziness'. 'The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail' In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no longer worth living, but, in what is described as a reverse Arabian Nights scenario, agrees not to end his life for as long as his companion and descendant, chief executive of the Howard Families Ira Weatheral, will listen to his stories. The first half of the book takes the form of several novellas connected by Lazarus's retrospective narrative. Lazarus is the result of more a mutation than the breeding experiment, and he is the oldest living human at more than two thousand years old. The experiment is known as the Howard Families, after the program's initiator. The book covers several periods from the life of Lazarus Long (born Woodrow Wilson Smith), an early beneficiary of a breeding experiment designed to increase mankind's natural lifespan. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.

Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A.

Robert a heinlein the number of the beast