Kinds Of A Novel

How many kinds of a novel is Poul Anderson's There Will Be Time (New York, 1973)?

Science fictional;
biographical;
conversational.

A conversational novel is a comfortable read. In the midst of the action, we can suddenly revert to the hero telling the narrator how it happened.

Consider the fifth paragraph on p. 105 in Chapter X. The first two sentences are a third person account of Jack Havig's trip first in a plane and in airport buses, then time-hopping around for a couple of days. However, the third sentence reads:

"He had told me through a wry grin, 'Know where the best place usually is...'" (See the previous post.)

In the following paragraph, we are back with Havig eating his dinner after the trip.

Usually, a first person narrator can be expected to survive the narrative - unless he turns out to be narrating from a hereafter. (This does happen in Sunset Boulevard.) The same immunity applies to a central character who has later told his story to the author/narrator.