From the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Starship Troopers "and the first Grand Master of Science Fiction... Lazarus Long 1916-4272 The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, " Time Enough for Love "follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.
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Táto sága skúma hĺbky existencie skrze koncepty dlhovekosti, cestovania časom a multiverza. Príbehy sú plné filozofických úvah o ľudstve, spoločnosti a samotnej podstate reality. Čitatelia sa môžu tešiť na dobrodružstvá, ktoré búrajú hranice známeho vesmíru. Je to oslava nekonečných možností a hlbokých ľudských túžob.
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