Time Enough for Love
- 589
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Time Enough for Love” shows Heinlein on the grand scale: nearly six hundred pages of adventurous time travel in a bright, utopian far future. Some readers enjoy the optimism of that future. Others hear mostly an old man’s rambling anecdotes with little science fiction in them, or find the hero overbearing and chauvinist.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The book made the shortlist for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards for best science fiction novel of that year, although it did not win. It did win a retrospective Libertarian Futurist Society award: the Prometheus Hall of Fame award of 1988.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 121 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 45% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 121 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Time Enough for Love?
It has 589 pages — longer than 77% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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