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The number of the beast / Robert A. Heinlein ; illustrated by Richard M. Powers.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Heinlein, R.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space flight--Fiction.
- Space flight.
- Gifted persons.
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Gifted persons--Fiction.
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 511 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fawcett Columbine, [1980]
- Summary:
- The wickedest, most wonderful science fiction story ever created in our-or any-time Anything can begin at a party in California-and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction. When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans-two male, two female-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, danger, ecstasy, and peril.
- Notes:
- Novel.
- "First Fawcett Columbine printing: August 1980"--Title page verso.
- Cover art: Richard Powers.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy is slightly damaged from a burn.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 191177
- Other Format:
- Online version: Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988. Number of the beast.
- ISBN:
- 0449900401
- 9780449900406
- 0449900193
- 9780449900192
- OCLC:
- 6421136
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