The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space: A Collection of Short Stories - Brossura

Goldschmidt, Pippa

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ISBN 10: 1910449121 ISBN 13: 9781910449127

Casa editrice: Freight Books, 2015

Riassunto

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Falling Sky, an outstanding collection of short stories on the theme of science and its impact on all our lives In stories by turns witty, accessible, fascinating, and deeply moving, Pippa Goldschmidt demonstrates her mastery of the short form as well as her ability to draw out scientific themes with humane and compelling insight. This collection allows readers to spy on Bertolt Brecht as he rewrites his play Life of Galileo with Charles Laughton after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It introduces Albert Einstein as he deals with the loss of his first child, Liesel. We meet Robert Oppenheimer scheming against his tutor, Professor Patrick Blackett, at Cambridge University, having fallen in love with Blackett’s wife. We also hear the story of a female university student starting a love affair with her lecturer paralleled alongside the "relationship" between Alice and Bob, two imaginary figures that symbolize the theory of relativity. These stories' scopes can be epic, at other times intimate, providing a forensic examination of relationships and the forces that influence them.

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Recensione:

'Clever and compassionate, funny and bittersweet, inventive and heartfelt, it's a real discovery.' ---- Independent

'...endlessly inventive, blurring the lines between science, the surreal and the absurd.' -- The List

'Read it because it's exceptionally good... a genuinely fascinating volume, rewarding and stimulating.' ---- The Herald

'Definitions: "scientist" - human being who wonders, tries, gets things wrong; "science" - curiosity, wrapped in strange language and with odd-looking equipment; "story" - what if, and then, and then. Pippa Goldschmidt mixes all of the above and the resulting compounds are sweet, funny, spicy, provocative, moving. Your universe will be expanded. It doesn't get any better than that.' -- Tania Hershman author of My Mother Was An Upright Piano

'These stories, written with deep empathy and a bittersweet humour, open up a world where literature often fears to tread. Science is a tool for understanding the universe, but in Pippa Goldschmidt's hands it is also a metaphor through which we can better understand ourselves. She is a writer of great heart and talent.' -- Iain Maloney author of First Time Solo and Silma Hill

'Sharply imagined stories that glitter like a constellation: funny, sexy and moving by turns. There is a haunting, planetary loneliness at the heart of many of these tales, but they're told with energy, wit and unflagging inventiveness.' -- Wayne Price, author of Furnace and Mercy Seat

'Pippa Goldschmidt is busy defining an entirely new kind of "science" fiction. These stories - all of which are superb exercises in tone and concision - are urgent dispatches from a territory almost completely ignored by contemporary authors - elegant fables that inhabit the intersection of science, culture, humanity, and which are thoroughly informed by a sharp understanding of both the secret histories and hidden processes of actual science.' ---- Alastair Reynolds

L'autore:

Pippa Goldschmidt has a PhD in astronomy and worked as an astronomer for several years, followed by posts in the civil service including working in outer space policy. She has written on astronomy for the New York Times. In 2012 she was awarded a prestigious Scottish Book Trust/Creative Scotland New Writers Award. Her novel The Falling Sky was runner-up in the Dundee International Book Prize.

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• Editore: Freight Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910449121
• ISBN 13: 9781910449127
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 178