Editing Methuselah's Children (section)

==Critical reception==
Alva Rogers, in ''A Requiem for Astounding'', wrote that ''Methuselah's Children'' was "Full of adventure, conflict, romance, and enough casually tossed-off ideas to serve as the basis for a half-dozen other stories."<ref>
{{cite book|last=Rogers|first=Alva|year=1964|title=A Requiem for Astounding|url=https://openlibrary.org/b/OL5930850M/Requiem_for_Astounding|location=Chicago|publisher=Advent|isbn=9780911682168 |ol=5930850M }}</ref>

In ''Heinlein in Dimension'', [[Alexei Panshin]] wrote, "In many ways this is an important book.  For one, its main theme, the problem of escaping death, is one that keeps cropping up in Heinlein stories, and for another, an amazing number of brilliant ideas are tossed out along the way."<ref>
{{cite book|last=Panshin|first=Alexei|year=1968|title=Heinlein in Dimension|url=https://openlibrary.org/b/OL19583639M/Heinlein_in_dimension|location=Chicago|publisher=Advent|ol=19583639M }}</ref> [[Floyd C. Gale]] called the book "a classic".<ref name="gale195908">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1959-08/Galaxy_1959_08#page/n135/mode/2up | title=Galaxy's 5 Star Star Shelf | work=Galaxy | date=August 1959 | access-date=14 June 2014 | author=Gale, Floyd C. | pages=138–142}}</ref>