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Jun 01, 1988 | ISBN 9780441748600 Buy
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Jun 01, 1988 | ISBN 9780441748600
Bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein’s autobiographical masterpiece—a wondrous return to the alternate universes that all Heinlein fans have come to know and love.Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead…Filled with the master’s most beloved characters, To Sail Beyond the Sunset broadens and enriches Heinlein’s epic visions of time and space, life and death, love and desire…
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over… More about Robert A. Heinlein
“Thought-provoking…considerable wit and energy!”—Newsday“Admirably successful…The autobiographical material is consistently superb. The alternate universes are equally well done…The sexuality shows the lusty pleasure in smashing taboos familiar to readers of Stranger in a Strange Land.”—Chicago Sun-Times“In To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Heinlein continues to asseble most, if not all, the characters he has ever created…He remains the master!”—Locus“Exuberant and spirited…unquestionable one of the major, defining works of Robert A. Heinlein’s long and successful career.”—San Jose Mercry News
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