Methuselah's children
by Robert A. Heinlein · first published 1958
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Rear Cover Synopsis "After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and chronicled in 'Revolt in 2100', the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for all. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; NOTHING could make them foreswear those truths they hold self-
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The first thing that came to mind was Robert Heinlein’s ‘Howard Families’. And his later ‘Methuselah’s children’. Heinlein was a mixed bag. Mostly nuts. But his meta concepts and storylines were way ahead of his time(50-70s)..and some would say even by today’s standards. Still..one of favourite early sci fi authors.…
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on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗…nutrient medium in a glass flask of his own design. Every forty-eight hours the tissue doubled in size and was transferred to a new flask. Twenty years later, it was still growing. In his 1941 story Methuselah's Children, Robert Heinlein paid homage to his work by referring to the famous chicken as a research tool for the long-lived Howard Families: Lazarus found her servicing the deathless tissue of chicken heart known…
on “What is this colored fiber in my chicken?” ↗