The science fiction novel The Number of the Beast (ISBN 0-449-13070-3) by Robert A. Heinlein contains references to many locations, names, etc.
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Locations
- Arizona Strip
- Elko
- Grand Canyon
- Helium
- Hill Air Force Range
- New Raffles
- Paducah
- Palembang
- San Andreas Fault
- Singapore
- Snug Harbor
- Sumatra
- Utah State University
- Winnemucca
Movies
Persons
- Archimedes
- Carter, Captain John
- da Vinci, Leonardo
- Dirac, Paul
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Korzybski, Alfred[citation needed]
- Lovecraft, H.P.
- Moriarty, Professor
- Nettie, Great-Aunt[citation needed]
- Pal, George
- Smith, Edward Elmer (Doc)
- Smythe-Belisha, Mr. Giles[citation needed]
- Thoris, Dejah
- Wells, H.G.
- Whorf, Benjamin Lee[citation needed]
- Yang, Cecil[citation needed]
- Zamir, Uncle[citation needed]
Phrases
- B.S.
- baby-chewed
- Blokes in Black Hats
- Boys in Black Hats
- continua craft[1]
- Cooper's Droop[2]
- County Clerk
- County Judge
- dogleg
- ETA
- ex cathedra
- family duty
- faux pas
- Gesundheit
- Gray Lensmen
- infantile bias
- information theory
- jungle machete
- lusty wench
- M.S.
- Mad dogs and Englishmen
- Old Stone Face
- Ph.D.
- Pooh
- priest's hole
- shrink factory
- slugabeds[3]
- symbolic logic
- tit
- whiff as a polecat[4]
Publications
- A Princess of Mars[5]
- Air Wonder
- All-Story[6]
- Argosy
- Black Mask
- Clayton Astoundings
- Gernsbachs
- Jirel of Joiry[7]
- Northwest Smith[8]
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oz books
- Reuters
- The Lensmen Series
- The Shadow[9]
- UPI
- War Aces[10]
- Weird Tales
Scientific names
Miscellaneous
- Aerospace Reserve
- Amazons
- Australian Defence Forces
- Ford of Canada
- Kaor[12]
- Ku Klux Klan
- Liebestod[13]
External links
- ^ "A Heinlein Concordance created by M. E. Cowan". http://www.heinleinsociety.org/concordance/books/nb_hc.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
- ^ "Cooper's Droop". http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903271,00.html. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
- ^ "Slugabed". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slugabed. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
- ^ "MYTHS VERSUS FACTS". http://www.stinkybusiness.org/myths.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ "A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs". http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/pmars-table.html. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ^ "All-Story (Cavalier) Weekly/Magazine". http://www.philsp.com/mags/all_story_weekly.html. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
- ^ "Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature". http://www.blackgate.com/articles/jirel_of_joiry.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ^ "Northwest Smith". http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes/northwest.html. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ^ "You Know Their Names ...". http://thepulp.net/theshadow.html. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ^ "The FictionMags Index". http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/t1627.htm#A36544. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
- ^ "What is Satyriasis?". http://www.medfriendly.com/satyriasis.html. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
- ^ "Customs & Titles". http://www.erblist.com/abg/customstitles.html. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
- ^ "Liebestod". http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Liebestod. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
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