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Time Enough for Love

Robert A. Heinlein

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973

Lazarus Long, the oldest living human, tells the stories of his more than two thousand years of life, with the aphorisms collected as "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long".

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Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) was one of the most widely read science-fiction writers of the twentieth century. In this novel, Lazarus Long, tired of living, is persuaded to keep going by being asked to tell his life story.

In copyright. G. P. Putnam's Sons published the book in 1973. Heinlein died in 1988, and his widow, Virginia, left most of their literary estate to the Heinlein Prize Trust.

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Public domain in the United States
1 January 2069, 95 years after the book was published
Public domain in Canada
1 January 2059, 70 years after Heinlein's death in 1988

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