4 ROBERT HEINLEIN—WORLD AS MYTH SERIES—1982 +'88—LAZARUS LONG

Description: .4 Softcovers --- SCIENCE FICTION by Robert A. Heinlein World As Myth Series Fantasy Science Fiction AdventurePrinting Years: 1982 + 1988 1. Time Enough for Love - 589 Pages Nominee Hugo, Nebula, Locus Awards Won Prometheus Award, + 7 Citations 2. Normal 0 The Number of the Beast - 511 Pgs Nominee Locus Award 3. Normal 0 The Cat Who Walks Through Walls 388 Pages -- Nominee Locus Award 4. Normal 0 To Sail Beyond the Sunset - 434 Pgs Nominee Locus, Prometheus Awards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heinlein: Many Wins / Nominations Hugo, Retro-Hugo, Nebula, & Locus Awards Member Science Fiction Hall of Fame FIRST Grand Master of Science Fiction . >TRUSTED EBAY SELLER SINCE 2003 >SHIPS ONLY TO USA & CANADA >MEDIA MAIL or GROUND ADVANTAGE - USA ONLY >PRIORITY MAIL ~ FAST SHIP OPTION - USA & CANADA ****************************************************************************************** . . >Shipping with Tracking - in Sturdy BOX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>HEINLEIN COOL TRIVIA at Listing Bottom (end) .<>Action, adventure, & discovery come together in these fascinating tales. Four Softcovers by Robert A. Heinlein - World As Myth Series - with Lazarus Long. Printing Years: 1982 + 1988..1. Time Enough for Love - Normal 0 ISBN: 0441810764 - Copyright 1973, ACE Books, ACE Science Fiction, Aug. 1988 -- 589 Pages . >>Features: Normal 0 10-PG Introduction -- Table of Contents -- Multi-PG Prelude -- 4-PG CODA -- Nominee Hugo, Nebula, Locus Awards -- Won Prometheus Award, + 7 Citations . Brief Summary Let's meet Lazarus Long (born Woodrow Wilson Smith) - an early beneficiary of a breeding experiment designed to increase human's natural lifespan. The experiment is known as the Howard Families, after the program's initiator. Lazarus is the result - more of a mutation than the breeding experiment - and he is the oldest living human at more than 2,000 years. This tale follows Lazarus through a vast & magnificent timescape of centuries & worlds. It is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it. He's so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2. Normal 0 The Number of the Beast Normal 0 - ISBN: 0449144763 - Copyright 1980, First Ballantine Books Edition, July 1982 -- 511 Pages.>>Features: Table of Contents - Author Bio - Nominee Locus Award Brief Summary Two male & two female sensual and incredibly cerebral humans, find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthroughs. They then take to the skies - and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket ride of adventure & danger, ecstasy and peril. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. 3. Normal 0 The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - ISBN: 0441094996 - Copyright 1985, Ace Books Edition July 1988 - Table of Contents + Nominee Locus Award - 388 Pages . Normal 0 Brief Summary Richard Ames an ex-military man - now turned writer - fancies himself a pundit. An assassination attempt precipitates his marriage to Gwen - and sends the newlyweds scurrying to the Moon and then to the planet Tertius (headquarters of Time Corps). When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, mystery, and other dimensions - where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.4. Normal 0 To Sail Beyond the Sunset - ISBN: 0441748600 - Copyright 1987, ACE Books Edition June 1988 -- 434 Pages . >>Features: Normal 0 2-PG Table of Contents -- 7-PG Appendix "People in This Memoir" -- Appendix 2-PG Associated Stories -- Nominee Locus + Prometheus Awards.Brief Summary Maureen Johnson, the somewhat-irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat, named Pixel. The man is a stranger to her - and besides that, he is dead. Here is an epic tale involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, life and death, love and desire. Explore the theory that alternate universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere (for example) the Land of Oz is real.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>>HEINLEIN COOL TRIVIA: - Heinlein narrated 1969 Moon landing with Walter Cronkite (CBS) - Crater on Mars named after him (Heinlein Crater) - Main-belt asteroid named for him (6312 Robheinlein). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONDITION Books Very Good to Good+ condition. They resided in an indoor storage cabinet; part of my sci-fi collection. There may be some natural color aging in pages & covers from Vintage 1982+88 printings, lightly tanned with age. Have storage wear on spines, corners, & edges, with creasing on covers. A bit waviness to books. Bk 1 has a bit clear tape at back cover edge. Bk 2 has minor tape at spine bottom. Good binding, pages secure; no apparent writing..Generally, books also May Have some storage edge or corner wear, a bit of cover or page creasing or wrinkling, smudges, slight curving of books/pages, tags or tape affixed, minor darkening of pages at top, bottom, fore-edges or covers, & cover color rubbing wear, fading on inside covers - though this may not be apparent to view in 11 photos. .>>There is no return for this Lot item. . PHOTO LIST PHOTOS 1 thru 3 & 10, 11 -- Front views of 4 books. PHOTOS 4 thru 5 -- Back views of 4 books. PHOTOS 6 thru 9 -- Views spine, top, bottom, and fore-edges. ************************* ************************** PayPal Verified . Pay securely with a major credit card thru PayPal Our eBay store has BOTH PayPal & ID Verified Approval, providing buyer confidence. Items come from a smoke-free business. Only RC Aircraft items have a return or exchange policy. 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