The Number of the Beast
Author: Robert A Heinlein
 
An enthralling combination of classic space opera and heroic fantasy. The Number of the Beast is a breathtakingly original masterwork from one of the acknowledged greats of the genre.
A brilliant, but eccentric scientist has invented a space/time machine and using the three space and three time co-ordinates, he has discoverd a possible 666 alternative universes . . . 666 being the magical number associated with the biblical Beast of Revelations.
Into this theme, Heinlein weaves his own galaxy of incredible ingredients - a Martian penal colony where the British Empire wars with Imperial Russia, a universe with no letter 'J', Multiperson Pantheistic Solipsism, and the possibility that the mythical Beast may not be mythical at all . . .
 
FIRST NEL PAPERBACK APRIL 1981
ISBN: 0450051277