Title: Number of the Beast (parts 17-24) - Novel
Written:   Written October - December 1978 using material from (including first 250 pages of The Panki-Barsoom Number of the Beast (Op. 176)     Pages: 586
 
Description:
Part 31, 280 pages, contains proof copy of novel.
Part 32, 280 pages, contains print copy of novel.
Part 33, 25 pages, contains bestsellers lists for novel.
 
Publication: 
Novel 219,000 words. Serial publication of 27,250 word excerpt and reduction in Omni magazine October 1979; published after auction by Fawcett Columbine in 1980, with a British release a few weeks earlier.
 
Notes: Cross Referenced: in OPUS176. Alternate working titles: The Gay Deceiver and Always Tip the Headsman