![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "If you're bemused by the mild porn and physical references being thrust in your face, you never notice what's actually going on. "It's nothing but a MANUAL on How To Write Good Fiction, written on several simultaneous levels - and people get out of it what they put INTO it. "THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST is the most massive and wonderful practical joke ever played on the Speculative Fiction genre-reading public. How can the entry not note this is one long instruction manual for writing science fiction written almost as a practical joke? Ed Poor It's called Pan-Theistic Multi-Ego Solipsism, In short, each man or woman mentally creates their own universe or multiverse, AKA "World as a Myth"Ħ9.207.233.152 ( talk) 01:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC) Reply Other books in this set include - To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Methuselah's Children, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and Time Enough for Love.Ībove three paragraphs exact duplicate of another Heinlein novel - only need to be said once. Opinion is divided among science fiction fans as to whether this and other late Heinlein novels are brilliant, creative and original, or simply the wishfulfillment of a man in his second childhood. It is one of the ' Lazarus Long' set of books, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solopsism (I think) - the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them so that somewhere Oz is real. ![]()
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