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Number of the Beast
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Number of the Beast Paperback - 1980

by Robert A. Heinlein


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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. From the Paperback edition.

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  • Title Number of the Beast
  • Author Robert A. Heinlein
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 511
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, NY
  • Date 1980-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780449900406 / 0449900401
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 80016844
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre.

He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future.

Robert A. Heinlein's books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. By the time he died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.

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