The continua device allows travel into various fictional universes, such as the Land of Oz, as well as through time. The continua device can travel on all six axes. The geometry of the novel's universe contains six dimensions – the three spatial dimensions, known to the real world, and three time dimensions: t, the real world's temporal dimension, τ ( Greek tau), and т ( Cyrillic te). The continua device was built by Professor Burroughs while he was formulating his theories on n-dimensional non-Euclidean geometry. Thus begins the series of adventures that the four embark upon as they travel in the Gay Deceiver, which is equipped with the professor's "continua" device and armed by the Australian Defence Force. The couples then go to Jacob's hidden cabin in the woods, where they have their honeymoons. The incidents have so traumatized Jacob that he has agreed to marry Hilda and so they have a double ceremony.
Zeb flies to Elko, Nevada, the state being the only one to allow people to get married 24 hours a day with no waiting period or blood test. Zeb gets everyone into his modified air car Gay Deceiver and by activating the Deceiver 's flying capability, escapes undetected by the authorities or the criminals who put a bomb in the other vehicle. Zeb, having a premonition, grabs the three of them and ducks behind another vehicle before Jacob and Deety's vehicle explodes. As they are approaching their vehicles, Hilda comes out, deciding to tag along. As they are leaving, Deety and Zeb rescue Jacob from a heated argument he is having with another faculty member before a fight breaks out. Zeb figures out and explains to Deety that he is not the one who wrote the article but a relative with a similar name.Īfter dancing a very intimate tango, Zeb jokingly suggests the dance was so strong they should get married, and Deety agrees. Deety is trying to get Zeb to meet her father to discuss what she thinks is an article Zeb wrote about n-dimensional space, even going so far as to offer herself.
In the opening, Deety is dancing with Zeb at a party at Hilda's mansion. The names "Dejah Thoris", "Burroughs", and "Carter" are overt references to John Carter and Dejah Thoris, the protagonists of the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book is a series of diary entries primarily by each of the four main characters: Zebadiah "Zeb" John Carter, programmer Dejah Thoris "Deety" Burroughs Carter, her mathematics professor father Jacob Burroughs, and off-campus socialite Hilda Corners. Excerpts from the novel were serialized in the magazine Omni (1979 October, November).
The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A.
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