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

Goldschmidt Pippa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910449121 ISBN 13 : 9781910449127

Editeur : Freight Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'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

Présentation de l'éditeur

Pippa Goldschmidt, author of the acclaimed novel The Falling Sky, brings together an outstanding collection of short stories on the theme of science and its impact on all our lives. In turns witty, accessible, fascinating and deeply moving, Goldschmidt demonstrates her mastery of the short form as well as her ability to draw out scientific themes with humane and compelling insight.
Goldschmidt allows us to spy on Bertolt Brecht, as he rewrites his play Life of Galileo with Charles Laughton after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She introduces us to 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. She tells 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 symbolise the theory of relativity.
Goldschmidt's scope can be epic, at other times intimate, providing a forensic examination of relationships and the forces that influence them.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Freight Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910449121
• ISBN 13: 9781910449127
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible