Allusions of The Number of the Beast to Other Works

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.

Locations

  1. Arizona Strip
  2. Elko
  3. Grand Canyon
  4. Helium
  5. Hill Air Force Range
  6. New Raffles
  7. Paducah
  8. Palembang
  9. San Andreas Fault
  10. Singapore
  11. Snug Harbor
  12. Sumatra
  13. Utah State University
  14. Winnemucca

Movies

  1. Time Machine

Persons

  1. Archimedes
  2. Carter, Captain John
  3. da Vinci, Leonardo
  4. Dirac, Paul
  5. Jefferson, Thomas
  6. Korzybski, Alfred
  7. Lovecraft, H.P.
  8. Moriarty, Professor
  9. Nettie, Great-Aunt
  10. Pal, George
  11. Smith, Edward Elmer (Doc)
  12. Smythe-Belisha, Mr. Giles
  13. Thoris, Dejah
  14. Wells, H.G.
  15. Whorf, Benjamin Lee
  16. Yang, Cecil
  17. Zamir, Uncle

Phrases

  1. B.S.
  2. baby-chewed
  3. Blokes in Black Hats
  4. Boys in Black Hats
  5. continua craft
  6. Cooper's Droop
  7. County Clerk
  8. County Judge
  9. dogleg
  10. ETA
  11. ex cathedra
  12. family duty
  13. faux pas
  14. Gesundheit
  15. Gray Lensmen
  16. infantile bias
  17. information theory
  18. jungle machete
  19. lusty wench
  20. M.S.
  21. Mad dogs and Englishmen
  22. Old Stone Face
  23. Ph.D.
  24. Pooh
  25. priest's hole
  26. shrink factory
  27. slugabeds
  28. symbolic logic
  29. tit
  30. whiff as a polecat

Publications

  1. A Princess of Mars
  2. Air Wonder
  3. All-Story
  4. Argosy
  5. Black Mask
  6. Clayton Astoundings
  7. Gernsbachs
  8. Jirel of Joiry
  9. Northwest Smith
  10. Oxford English Dictionary
  11. Oz books
  12. Reuters
  13. The Lensmen Series
  14. The Shadow
  15. UPI
  16. War Aces
  17. Weird Tales

Scientific names

  1. mammary gland
  2. Satyriasis
  3. teat
  4. Wassermann Positive

Miscellaneous

  1. Aerospace Reserve
  2. Amazons
  3. Australian DeFence Forces
  4. Ford of Canada
  5. Kaor
  6. Ku Klux Klan
  7. Liebestod