
The Number of the Beast
When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans 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 and danger, ecstasy and peril.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Year
- 1980
- ISBN-13
- 9781647100032
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Topics
- Interdimensional travelAlien conflictAdventure
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(1981)
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