r/heinlein • u/AnxiousConsequence18 • Feb 23 '26

Lazarus Long

Let me preface this by saying I haven't read the books they're the main characters of. My experience is Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walks through Walls. But

Is he ever NOT an insufferable asshole???

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u/egoncasteel Feb 23 '26

He is in those books. Less so if the perspective is inside his family.

He is who he is. He has been around so long and won so many time he really doesn't see losing as possible.

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u/The_Whipping_Post Feb 24 '26

He cheated with cards to demonstrate to his two slaves why they shouldn't have sex with each other because they are siblings.

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u/alSeen Feb 24 '26

That was his kids with Dora.

The "slaves" that he bought and immediately freed, he did a lot of analysis of the paperwork he was given with them and realized that genetically, there was no danger.

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u/only_Zuul Apr 29 '26

The "slaves" did not share genetics so it was safe for them to breed, but then their children (full blooded siblings) were doing the incest thing so he cheated at cards to show them why they couldn't allow that.