Time Enough for Love, to close out his Future History. It centered on Lazarus Long, the effectively immortal protagonist of Methuselah’s Children, whose superhuman fecundity—women beg to have his children—came off as a wishful reaction to the author’s own childlessness. The result was his last major work, and it included a few nostalgic nods to Hubbard, whom he had never ceased to see as a war hero. Lazarus uses the pseudonym “Lafayette Hubert, M.D.,” and he refers to another Lafe, a naval officer, with some familiar qualities: He had hair so red that Loki would have been proud of it. Tried to
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