The Number of the Beast
Semi-mad scientist Jake Burroughs, his beautiful daughter Deety, her strong love interest
Zeb Carter, Hilda Corners (“Aunt Hilda” if you prefer) and their
time/dimension-traveling ship Gay Deceiver yak and smooch their way though many time
periods in many universes (including that of
Lazurus Long), soon
realizing the true nature of the world as pantheistic multiperson solipsism.
In
Heinlein’s first version of this novel, written in 1977, the middle third of the story
takes place on Barsoom, but in the 1980 published version, Barsoom
was replaced by a futuristic British Mars
— Michael Main
Sharpie, you have just invented multiperson solipsism. I didn’t think that was
mathematically possible.