Editing Lazarus Long (section)

== Other novels ==
In ''[[The Number of the Beast (novel)|The Number of the Beast]]'', the main characters discover a way to travel to fictional worlds, and in the course of their explorations, visit the world of Lazarus Long. Using the technology of these characters' ship (which can travel through space and time), Lazarus snatches his mother out of the time stream at the end of her life and replaces her with a dead clone.

In ''[[The Number of the Beast (novel)#The Pursuit of the Pankera|The Pursuit of the Pankera]]'', which is a parallel novel of ''The Number of the Beast'', Lazarus is mentioned by the name "Doc Lafe Hubert" (a known alternate name for Lazarus), who claims to have "delivered over twelve thousand babies[,] about fifty of them his own", and later in the book: "After this ruckus, Maureen wants your family to visit ours."<ref>Pursuit of the Pankera, pages 485, 497.</ref>

Lazarus also appears as a minor character in ''[[The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]]'' and plays a role in Heinlein's last novel, ''[[To Sail Beyond the Sunset]]'', which is the life story of Maureen. In the former novel, Lazarus is revealed at the end of the novel as the father of protagonist Colin "Richard Ames" Campbell, whereas in the latter novel, Maureen as narrator tells a somewhat different version of Lazarus' visit to Earth in 1916–1918, details that information about the future received from Lazarus was crucial to the Howard Foundation's survival of the [[Great Depression]], and reveals that Lazarus (as Woodrow "Bill" Smith) was the backup pilot of the first lunar expedition.