h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I ntoiced a couple of little things in the entry.

Naval Academy should be capitalized.

Lazaraus wasn't immortal, he just isn't dead yet. I'm not sure that they ever established that he was his own father. In Time Enough for Love, he went back after Woodrow Willson Smith was born.

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll be sure to fix it.

As for Lazarus being immortal and his own father, as far as I know he can live until he chooses to die, which makes him immortal. I also wasn't sure about him being his own father, but several books I read mentioned it.

It's hard to say since the books openly contradict each other. I just read Methusila's Children. In it, Lazarus Long claims that Dr. Perino stopped using his machine from Life Line after he tried using it on Lazarus. In Life Line, Dr. Perino used it right up until his predicted death.

My wife just read Time Enough for Love, and I've been reading some of his other stuff. I hoped to have more to contribute, but I haven't come up with anything really useful that you haven't talked about yet.

I just picked up a few more books. I bought The Cat That Walked Through Walls for my wife. I bought Friday, Expanded Universe and Podkayne of Mars for me.

Maybe I'll have something to contribute before long.

no, Lazarus (or whatever name he's currently going by) is NOT his own father, he was playing chess with his younger self in both "Time Enough" and "Sunset," and Mama Maureen kept good birth records.
i looked for a heinlein reference, didn't find this, posted an A849080 with his official homepage and links, personal observations and an update about putting a colony on the moom from the World Science Congress, in progress here/now 10/16/02.
they think they can melt moondust, make a gigantic solar panel and power an industrial site/colony. now, if they can get water out of rocks...)
thanks.