| Publication date: | 1979.10 |
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| Genre: | Science fiction novel |
| Series: | World as Myth Lazarus Long |
| Preceded by: | The Notebooks of Lazarus Long |
| Followed by: | Friday |
| Wikipedia page |
“The Number of the Beast” is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, published in the magazine “Omni” 1979 October, November. The first (paperback) edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers.
Exposition
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.
Alternative covers
