To sail beyond the sunset : the life and loves of Maureen Johnson (being the memoirs of a somewhat irregular lady)

Bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein's autobiographical masterpiece--a wondrous return to the alternate universes that all Heinlein fans have come to know and love. Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls . The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead... Filled with the master's most beloved characters, To Sail Beyond the Sunset broadens and enriches Heinlein's epic visions of time and space, life and death, love and desire... To sail beyond the sunset was the last novel published before Heinlein died in 1988. It is the last of the "Lazarus Long" cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism -- the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them so that somewhere (for example) the Land of Oz is real. It can easily be considered the capstone to the series, as it ends on a note very suggestive of an epic's finale SciFi - Subtitled "The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)". Maureen Johnson is the mother of Woodrow Wilson Smith/Lazarus Long/Theodore Bronson. This memoir takes sexually active Maureen from her childhood in the 1880s to her rescue 100 years later and on to her rejuvenation and activity as a time traveler. The millions of fans of Lazarus Long--probably Heinlein's most beloved character--will flock to this new tale, which continues adventures of the characters of The Cat Who Walked Through Walls. From the author of Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love. **