Time Enough for Love
The World as Myth • Book 1
Narrated by Tom Weiner
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
At 23 hours of an immortal man's rambling memoirs, this is either the most rewarding sci-fi listen of your life or an endurance test — almost no one lands in the middle.
- Great if you want: epic, philosophical Heinlein with his full libertarian worldview
- Listening experience: slow and digressive — episodic vignettes, not a tight narrative
- Narration: Weiner's measured, elder-statesman delivery fits Lazarus Long well
- Skip if: the incest subplot or Heinlein's sexual politics will put you off
About This Audiobook
Lazarus Long has lived for over two thousand years and has decided he is finished, but the Howard Families intercept him and demand the wisdom and the stories that so much living must have accumulated. What follows is a sprawling narrative that moves through multiple novellas within the frame story, covering Long's time as a slave trader, his adventures across the galaxy, and a journey back in time that forces him to confront the most forbidden desire of all. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious novel is a meditation on longevity, freedom, and the inexhaustible appeal of life.
Tom Weiner navigates the novel's epic length and its multiple embedded narratives with a steady hand, giving Long's voice the authority of accumulated experience without making him remote. At just over twenty-three hours, this is a substantial commitment, but Heinlein's ideas and the variety of the stories within stories make the journey worthwhile. Science fiction fans interested in the philosophical wing of the genre will find Weiner's performance a faithful companion.
