Editing Time Enough for Love (section)

==Reception==
[[John Leonard (critic)|John Leonard]], writing in ''[[The New York Times]]'', praised ''Time Enough for Love'' as "a great entertainment", declaring that "it doesn't matter [that] all his characters sound and behave exactly the same; it's because the man is a master of beguilement. He pulls so hard of the dugs of sentiment that disbelief is not merely suspended; it is abolished".<ref>"Books of the Times: Two Tales for the Future", ''[[The New York Times]]'', 22 August 1973.</ref>

[[Theodore Sturgeon]] reviewed the novel favorably, citing "the fascination of watching the mind of a man whose reach always exceeds his grasp but who will never stop reaching".<ref>"Galaxy Bookshelf", ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'', November 1973, p. 85.</ref>

The work has a 4/5 star rating on Goodreads from 36,500 ratings describing it as "The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History". On Amazon.com the work has a rating of 4.6/5 from 2,280 ratings.

The book has been criticized for its excessive length and unpleasant promotion of incest. Kat Hooper called it a boring novel "for masochists only".<ref>https://fantasyliterature.com/reviews/time-enough-for-love/ Retrieved 8 January 2024.</ref>