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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : New. 305pp. Photos. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". N° de réf. du vendeur 075443
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Description du livre Softcover. Etat : new. Reprint. Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt VonnegutIn the mid1950s Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady where his older brother Bernard is a leading scientist in its research labor House of Magic Kurt has ambitions as a novelist and Bernard is working on a series of cuttingedge weathercontrol experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourishWhile Kurt writes zippy press releases Bernard builds silveriodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice His experiments attract the attention of the government weather proved a decisive factor in World War II and if the military can control the clouds fog and snow they can fly more bombing missions Maybe weather will even be the New Super Weapon But when the army takes charge of his cloudseeding project dubbed Project Cirrus Bernard begins to have misgivings about the harmful uses of his inventions not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphereIn a fascinating cultural history Ginger Strand chronicles the intersection of these brothers lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite As the Cold War looms Bernards struggle for integrity plays out in Kurts evolving writing style The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how sciences ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists. N° de réf. du vendeur DADAX0374536538
Description du livre Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic 0.65. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur BBS-9780374536534
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