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The Number of the Beast
The Number of the Beast
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril.
ISBN-13: 9780449900192
ISBN-10: 0449900193
Publication Date: 12/12/1980
Pages: 511
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  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 16 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 2
One of my all-time favorite books by my favorite author. The first two sections are outstanding time-travelling, dimension-hopping Science Fiction. Sadly, the third section falls to Heinlein's efforts to tie all of his books into one story line.
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Helpful Score: 2
Contrary to one or two other reviewers, this Heinlein novel is one of my favorites and I am just beginning my 3rd (or 4th or perhaps 5th) reading.

The novel is set primarily in a different universe than the one that we readers currently inhabit and takes the reader on a long journey into another time and space using a ship that is certainly not yet been invented in our world.

Heinlein wraps this novel up with the characters of this novel, meeting up with centuries old Lazarus Long and his tribe. If you have not met them yet, you really should!
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Excellent entertainment, better than even 'Stranger in a Strange Land' (also by Heinlein), this book is on my best-ten-fiction list. Vivid characters, good science, great plot. I will keep it and re-read it in a couple years.
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Time and Space travel...wow
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A must read for Heinlein fans!
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I have enjoyed The Number of the Beast in the past.
I always enjoy rereading an old favorite.
Robert A. Heinlein is my all time favorite author.


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