In fact, the main motivator for the entire time travel plot is 'my mum is hot and has nice breasts, I want to bang her'. Is it refreshingly freeing to see a sex positive and open society where polyamorous families can all love one another and bring up children together? Or is it all weirdly tarnished by the way he dials it all up to 11 and attacks the incest taboo head on? By the end of the book our hero has seduced both the child he raised from a baby, and his actual literal mother at the age she was when he was originally about 6. A few minutes with the internet suggests this is not the first book Heinlein wrote in his loose Future History/World as Myth/Lazarus Long series, and if I had been making some effort to start at the beginning the lightly pencilled in ideas of the Senior and the Howard families might have been a bit more explained! But you can muddle through from where I started, or at least I did. I made no effort to work out if it was a book in a series, or whether there was backstory I needed to know, I just dived in. A friend gave me this huge brick of a Heinlein, and I spent a month ploughing through it, and what do I think? My braindump follows.
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