num_pages: 175
description: The 'Howard Families' were the product of a genetic experiment, an interbreeding program which had produced one hundred thousand people with an average life expectancy of a century and a half.Now, at last, their existance was known on earth, and the entire world demanded to share the "secret" of eternal youth.
language: English
title: Methuselah's Children
titlecomplete: Methuselah's Children
characters: Lazarus Long, Andrew Jackson "Slipstick" Libby
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 20273
series: Future History or "Heinlein Timeline", Lazarus Long
publisher: New English Library