An edition of The Number of the Beast (1980)

The Number of the Beast

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An edition of The Number of the Beast (1980)

The Number of the Beast

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  • ★★★ 3.00 ·
  • 8 Ratings
  • 48 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 17 Have read

Heinlein buff David Potter explained on alt.fan.heinlein, in a posting reprinted on the Heinlein Society, that the entire book is actually "one of the greatest textbooks on narrative fiction ever produced, with a truly magnificent set of examples of HOW NOT TO DO IT right there in the foreground, and constant explanations of how to do it right, with literary references to people and books that DID do it right, in the background." He noted that "every single time there's a boring lecture or tedious character interaction going on in the foreground, there's an example of how to do it RIGHT in the background."

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Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Language
English
Pages
511

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Subjects
American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, alien contact, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, science fiction, general

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The Number of the Beast
1982, Ballantine, Fawcett
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The number of the beast
1981, New English Library
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The number of the beast.
1981, NEL
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New York, NY

First Sentence

""He's a Mad Scientist, and I'm his Beautiful Daughter.""

Table of Contents

{'level': 0, 'label': 'Part One', 'pagenum': '11', 'title': "The Mandarin's Butterfly"}
{'level': 0, 'label': 'Part Two', 'pagenum': '163', 'title': "The Butterfly's Mandarin"}
{'level': 0, 'label': 'Part Three', 'pagenum': '383', 'title': 'Death and Resurrection'}

Edition Notes

Cover art by Richard Powers.

Genre
Science Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3515.E288 N8

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
511 p.
Number of pages
511
Dimensions
23 cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4102318M
ISBN 10
0449900401, 0449900193
ISBN 13
9780449900406, 9780449900192
LCCN
80016844
OCLC/WorldCat
6421136
Library Thing
35732
Goodreads
50877
640994

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