Os Filhos de Matusalém (Mundo Fantástico / Mundos da Ficção Científica #10) -

Robert A. Heinlein

Francisco Alves, (RJ)

1978

216 páginas

7h 12m

Português Brasileiro

"Methuselah's Children", 1941. As "Famílias Howard" eram o resultado de uma experiência genética, de um programa de cruzamentos, que tinha produzido mais de cem mil pessoas com uma média de vida de século e meio. No ultracivilizado ano de 2125 d.C. esta distinção era intolerável. A sua existência era finalmente conhecida e o mundo inteiro exigia partilhar o "segredo" da eterna juventude. Um exemplo da imaginação de Robert A. Heinlein que través da personagem principal desta obra - Lazarus Long - instiga a dúvida, choca o leitor mais desprevenido, mas nunca deixa de ser fascinante.

[Wikipedia] Methuselah's Children is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science-Fiction in the July, August, and September 1941 issues. It was expanded into a full-length novel in 1958. The novel is usually considered to be part of Heinlein's Future History series of stories. It introduces the Howard Families, a fictional group of people who achieved long lifespans through selective breeding. The space ship in this novel, the New Frontiers, is described in the Future History timeline as a second generation ship, following the Vanguard, the vehicle for Heinlein's paired novellas "Universe" and "Common Sense".
According to John W. Campbell the novel was originally to be called While the Evil Days Come Not. This provisional title stems from a quotation from Ecclesiastes that was used as a password on the second page of the story...