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| Original Title: | The Number of the Beast |
| ISBN: | 0449900401 (ISBN13: 9780449900406) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The World As Myth #2, Lazarus Long |
Robert A. Heinlein
Paperback | Pages: 511 pages Rating: 3.61 | 11485 Users | 411 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Number of the Beast (The World As Myth #2) |
| Author | : | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 511 pages |
| Published | : | September 12th 1986 by Ballantine Books (first published 1980) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Time Travel. Adventure. Speculative Fiction |
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A fan of Robert A. Heinlein’s earlier works, generally classified as his “juveniles” published from 1947 until the late 50s, may be confused and disappointed by his 1980 novel Number of the Beast. Also, those familiar with and inspired by his middle period, roughly late 1950s until 1970, spanning the publications of The Door Into Summer in 1957 until I Will Fear No Evil in 1970 (the period that I regard as his zenith) may likely be nonplussed by what is going on in this work published when the grandmaster was 73 years old. To be certain, a Heinlein story where four interesting characters experience an adventure into Barsoom and Wonderland and Oz and also meet up with some classic Heinlein characters like Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw sounds like a great story and much of it is … but. As much of a fan as I am, I cannot help but apply the damning tag of self-indulgent. First of all, it’s about twice as long as it needs to be. A 200 page Number of the Beast would have been much better, faster paced and pithy. Secondly, had the man moved into a nudist colony and time traveled to pick up a septuagenarian value pack of Cymbalta? I love the libertarianism and his egalitarian sexism, but Time Enough for Love was enough already. Finally, he went on and on and on some more about militaristic group dynamics until the worthwhile and relevant observations on leadership and command were lost in blurred paragraphs and diminished by over exposure. I cannot help but compare this work to Poul Anderson’s Harvest of Stars (which had some traces of homage to Heinlein), which was published in 1993 when Anderson (another SFWA Grandmaster) was 67. This was a libertarian space opera that would have had Philip K. Dick scratching his head. Like The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, Heinlein’s The Number of the Beast may only be for true fans.
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I was looking forward to reading this and it started off quite pleasantly, I was enjoying the story, such as it was, but then it got dull, quickly, that is about a third of the way in, and its a 500+ page book.Basically a scientist invents a dimension jumping machine cum time machine, based around an old Ford car, and he comes up with a theory of the number of universes based on the number 6 raised to the power of 6, 6 times - 6 6 6. A group is assembled, a kind of family group, off on theirI've been a big fan of Heinlein for years. But with each successive Heinlein book I read these days, my enthusiasm for his writing wanes just a bit more. This book was so dismal that it actually negatively affected my feelings about other Heinlein books (specifically Time Enough For Love).In a nutshell, this is Heinlein at his most masturbatory. Towards the end of his career, he set out to tie together not only his own quite broad body of work but also the entire scope of human fiction, sending
I feel very conflicted about this book. It's one of the ones that I've re-read every year or two; it's large, and once you start it it's very hard to put down. Heinlein, whatever his faults, was a storyteller - and a gripping one.But his faults are largely on display in this book.When I was a young teen, my brother and I used to torture each other by reading particularly ripe and painful passages out loud to each other. This book, and the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" excerpts from Time Enough For
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.When I was a kid I loved some of Robert A. Heinleins Juveniles science fiction stories for children and teens. Red Planet was one of my favorites and I must have read it at least five times. These novels are part of the reason I kept reading science fiction they left such an impression on my young mind.Despite this nostalgia, I havent read Heinlein in years. When Blackstone Audio recently started releasing some of his later novels on audio, I thought it
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Non-Sexist Rip-Roaring SF: "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein(Original Review, 1980-08-31)Robert Heinlein's agent had hoped to get $1 million for his latest novel, "The Number of the Beast." What he had to settle for was half that, and not from his accustomed publisher nor from any of the houses with heavy SF publishing programs. The U.S. book rights went to Fawcett Columbine, and the resulting trade paperback is $6.95 per
A fan of Robert A. Heinleins earlier works, generally classified as his juveniles published from 1947 until the late 50s, may be confused and disappointed by his 1980 novel Number of the Beast. Also, those familiar with and inspired by his middle period, roughly late 1950s until 1970, spanning the publications of The Door Into Summer in 1957 until I Will Fear No Evil in 1970 (the period that I regard as his zenith) may likely be nonplussed by what is going on in this work published when the
Heinlein gets such a bad rap these days, and I feel like I want to defend him and say that a lot of his stories are really not that bad and sometimes even really cool. I seem to remember enjoying some of the early stuff. "By his Bootstraps" is a terrific short story. Friday and Job were good books. This though? The characters are intolerable! Everythin'gs so smug and pontificating and self-congratulatory. The dialogues go on and on with their self-important posturing and weird internal gender
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