sci fi/fantasy space and time travel late 70's

[Mrmurphman]

Hello all,

Just joined as this forum as seems like good potential to identify a book I read in the mid to late 70's perhaps as late a 1980 that I can not for the life of me remember nor find through various searches and looking at thumbnails of book covers from that era.

So anyway, this was a large softcover book, 12 inch by 8 or 10, and also fairly long as I recall, at least 300 - 400 pages. On the cover was a beautiful women, hair up perhaps with some king of crown or tiara, she is dressed in a very see through a body stocking bedecked with jewels, with one ample breast exposed. There is some image of space ship/space port or star system behind her as if she were indoors in a glass enclosed space/bubble/sphere and this planetary system was outside. In the story, there was intrigue, battle, and planetary travel with a specific character and a vessel (sleek smallish space cruiser) that had devised a way to travel to any point in space (not sure about time) via some computerized navigation system that put equal pressure on each of 3 axis points in a three dimensional model of the known/current star system etc..... the computer running this ship had a name (female?) and there was also a special program the character called "jump" which in times of some emergency or peril the ship would immediately jump to some known safe coordinates at the push of a button or command etc......

I have no idea of the author, nor can I recall anything I am sure is a part of the tittle, all I know is I read this generally after the Tolkien books as a adolescent and I believe pre- Hebert/Dune series and sometime around the first Donaldson/Unbeliever series

Anyone that can identify this one has my eternal thanks.

Happy Holidays all

Murph

 

[chrispenycate]

I'll start the ball rolling with Heinlein's "The number of the beast", even if my cover showed no similarity to this (the costume was described, briefly in the text).

Equal forces on three axes of a gyroscope, check, Gay deceiver (spacecraft and computer) check, Gay, bounce (verbal commands) check…

 

[Abernovo]

Until chrispenycate mentioned it, I didn't think of this novel, but your description does have some points in common with it. My edition has the cover below. The device is also fitted later in the book to the space yacht Dora. Heinlein named several of his spacecraft with female names.

 

[j d worthington]

While there are some elements which don't agree, i'd also have to go with The Number of the Beast... though the novel came out in 1980.

 

[Mrmurphman]

Thanks all and Merry Christmas. I am reading thru some of the passages of this book, and while similar is some aspects I don't think this is it. I will keep reading to see if the story has the same theme.