To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Final novel published in Heinlein's lifetime
Narrative Synopsis
The memoirs of Maureen Johnson, mother of Lazarus Long, born in Missouri in 1882. Waking in a retirement habitat on Tertius, Maureen chronicles over a century of life, sexual liberation, family building, frontier pioneering, and temporal paradoxes, weaving all threads of Heinlein's Future History into a joyful philosophical capstone.
The only crime is to waste the joy of living.
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Historical & Editorial Context
Published on Heinlein's 80th birthday; the title quotes Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Ulysses".