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To Sail Beyond The Sunset
A Science Fiction Novel by Robert Heinlein
Book 4 of the World as Myth Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Autobiographical Fiction,
- Longevity,
- Sexuality
This book is for you if you're into...
- Philosophical sci-fi with sharp, unconventional heroines
- Centuries-spanning life stories with radical ideas on sex and society
- Narratives driven by witty, provocative commentary instead of plot
The novel is mainly in the form of an autobiographical flashback from a tough space-going lady who finds herself naked in a cybernetic hotel room with a stiff and a telepathic cat that can walk through walls. She turns out to have been born back in the 1890s and to have been brought up under the auspices of the Howard League (a research institute interested in longevity).
The girl is a radical of the conservative variety and a free thinker who learns much about life from her wise old daddy, a doctor with a good line in home-spun theorizing. She works out her own values and re-writes the Ten Commandments in a wickedly relevant fashion. All she learns about sex in all its varieties. She is paid by the Howard League for every baby. Even at 600 years old she is a tough and feisty old broad with the body of a 35-year-old (she has been rejuvenated a few times).
There is not a lot of narrative but there is a huge amount of wise and entertaining observation.
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