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The Number of the Beast

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A brilliant, but eccentric scientist has invented a space/time machine and using the three space and three time co-ordinates, he has discovered a possible 666 alternative universes ...666 being 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 "I"; Multiperson Pantheistic Solipsism; and the possibility that the mythical Beast may not be mythical at all...

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The Number of the Beast, Robert A. Heinlein

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1990
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English
Released
1990
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Paperback
ISBN10
0450046753
ISBN13
9780450046759
First published
1980
Original title
The Number of the Beast,
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A brilliant, but eccentric scientist has invented a space/time machine and using the three space and three time co-ordinates, he has discovered a possible 666 alternative universes ...666 being 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 "I"; Multiperson Pantheistic Solipsism; and the possibility that the mythical Beast may not be mythical at all...