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The Sun and Moon Corrupted
Philip Ball
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Description for The Sun and Moon Corrupted
Paperback. Kurt Neder was once Einstein's accomplice and the brightest young physicist of his generation, now a lost soul wandering Europe in the hope that someone will pay him heed. Enter Lena - an intrepid young British journalist, hoping for a story to kick-start her stalled career, and driven by her own needs and beliefs, and her own need to believe. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
What if you had developed a machine that generated energy for free and no one believed you? That is the lot of Kurt Neder, once Einstein's accomplice and the brightest young physicist of his generation, now a lost soul wandering Europe in the hope that someone will pay him heed. Enter Lena - an intrepid young British journalist, hoping for a story to kick-start her stalled career, and driven by her own needs and beliefs, and her own need to believe. Her trail takes her from the cafes of Vienna via the castles of Transylvania and the labs of Princeton ... Read more
What if you had developed a machine that generated energy for free and no one believed you? That is the lot of Kurt Neder, once Einstein's accomplice and the brightest young physicist of his generation, now a lost soul wandering Europe in the hope that someone will pay him heed. Enter Lena - an intrepid young British journalist, hoping for a story to kick-start her stalled career, and driven by her own needs and beliefs, and her own need to believe. Her trail takes her from the cafes of Vienna via the castles of Transylvania and the labs of Princeton ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846271090
SKU
V9781846271090
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About Philip Ball
PHILIP BALL has written several award-winning works of non-fiction, including Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, Bright Earth: Art & the Invention of Colour, H2O: a Biography of Water, and The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. This is his first novel. He is a consultant editor at Nature and a contributing editor ... Read more
Reviews for The Sun and Moon Corrupted
'A cracker of a story' Henry Gee, Nature 'Funny and sad and smart' LabLit.com 'A complex tale of global and personal conflicts' FT 'Ball keeps you reading' Telegraph