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This is the strangest combination of charming-but-perverted that I've ever read on the topic of "forbidden love" or whatever you might call it.

I bet book club discussions were quite interesting back when this was new on the shelf.

Summarized and cynical takes on World War One, though Lazarus agrees to participate in it to some degree- with his advanced knowledge and experience as a "cheat code" of sorts. Since this is so close to the end of the book, I wonder if he's going to be killed in the war (and I wonder if the director/writer of 12 Monkeys borrowed heavily from this concept for that movie).

Okay, the time travel bit with Laz going hundreds of years back to see the "genesis" of his family is kinda neat; contemplating whether or not he could/should have sex with his own mother, not.

Why didn't he just cut the fluff and give Lazarus the name Casanova instead? =P

I do admit that the question of fathering a child through a female-clone version of yourself is as amusing as it is *extremely unlikely* to ever be a concern in the next 1-200 years.

Okay Rob we get it, you like making your characters talk obliquely about fornication. In a distant galaxy-spanning futuristic model of humanity, I would think (hope) that we'd feel less need to dwell casually on the topic so frequently.

...or is this a "the more things stay the same" kind of commentary on human nature?

Good ol' fashioned pioneer-style (attempted) bushwhacking! The way it was choreographed was certainly interesting, but hard to say how realistic it is.

I appreciate the drama and narrative significance of it all- however, "futuristic pioneering" is a lot less dangerous and suspenseful when you have portable long-distance means of (radio) communication available...which Heinlein knew we all did in the early 1970s.

Ah, I liked the brutally descriptive way he explains the (non-) value of fiat currency. I bet Heinlein and Thomas Sowell would've gotten along.

"Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love."

That one works in-context as well as in general. Tipping my hat to you, Mr. Heinlein sir.

Lots of pontificating on eugenics, family, and enhancements to selective breeding thanks to the massive improvements to science and technology in this hyper-futuristic time.

Also a brief jab or two at the 17th-19-century breeding tendencies of the royalty at the time (and understandably so).