The Number of the Beast, Robert A. Heinlein
The Number of the Beast, Robert A. Heinlein
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The Number of the Beast

Author: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne, Emily Durante, Malcolm Hillgartner, Sean Runnette, Paul Michael Garcia, and Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 21 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The wickedest, most wonderful science fiction story ever created in ouror anytime Anything can begin at a party in Californiaand everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction. When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humanstwo male, two femalefind themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skiesand zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure, danger, ecstasy, and peril.

About Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A Heinlein is considered one of the Big Three of classic science fiction (along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke). Heinlein is a seven-time Hugo Award recipient and was given the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. Heinlein’s juveniles alone have influenced generations of scientists, engineers and creators the world over (for instance, it was once estimated that everyone in the Apollo 11 mission control room had read and loved at least one Heinlein novel). His worldwide bestsellers include Have Space Suit — Will Travel, Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny

There's this terrible thing that happens to some science-fiction writers near the end of their careers: they want their oeuvre to make sense, with all the books related to each other in some complex structural way. I mean, who do they think they are, Balzac or Powell or someone? Get a grip, guys. Yo......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

This book is one of the quirkiest, perfectly complicated, sexually liberated, libertarian multi-multi-universe romps in SF literature. Few have dared to come even close to this kitchen sink of a novel, but that may be because this later-career novel of Heinlein is a great example of a writer at the h......more

Goodreads review by Bob

This morning I was perusing book reviews at Goodreads that, for the most part, lambaste Robert A Heinlein's 1980 novel The Number of the Beast, which I haven't read in years and years. This poor treatment of this particular novel surprised me somewhat, as I remembered TNotB to have been a rather ext......more

Goodreads review by Owen

This book is to science fiction literature as Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is to cinema: a big, fat, sloppy, self-indulgent love letter to everything its creator holds dear. The first time I read it I hated it, but a few years later I got into an argument about it with someone at a party and decid......more

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