Overview
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe. Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn't supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delia's husband, Levi, goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer. The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes. In Hartley's novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system. But is any of Lode Stars real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?
Full Product Details
Author: Lavie Tidhar ,
Stefan Rudnicki ,
Maxwell Caulfield ,
Eyre, Justine
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 14.70cm
Weight: 0.136kg
ISBN: 9781982574932
ISBN 10: 1982574933
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""A mind-bending existential adventure that seeks to answer the age-old question of why humanity exists...This is a knockout."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Ingeniously constructed and stylistically protean, this seven-course banquet of a novel glistens with the Golden Age of science fiction, even as it nourishes our neurons with a marvelous thought experiment."" -- ""James Morrow, award-winning author of Shambling Towards Hiroshima"" ""Tidhar's rich portrayal of the pulpy golden age of science fiction, distinctive characters, and nimble turns of phrase make for a cool confection."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"""
"""Ingeniously constructed and stylistically protean, this seven-course banquet of a novel glistens with the Golden Age of science fiction, even as it nourishes our neurons with a marvelous thought experiment."" -- ""James Morrow, award-winning author of Shambling Towards Hiroshima"" ""Can we all just admit now that Lavie Tidhar's a genius?"" -- ""Daryl Gregory, award-winning author"" ""Tidhar wins it all with this magnificently original mind-bender of a novel."" -- ""Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author"" ""A mind-bending existential adventure that seeks to answer the age-old question of why humanity exists...This is a knockout."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Tidhar's rich portrayal of the pulpy golden age of science fiction, distinctive characters, and nimble turns of phrase make for a cool confection."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"""
"""Ingeniously constructed and stylistically protean, this seven-course banquet of a novel glistens with the Golden Age of science fiction, even as it nourishes our neurons with a marvelous thought experiment."" -- ""James Morrow, award-winning author of Shambling Towards Hiroshima"" ""Can we all just admit now that Lavie Tidhar's a genius?"" -- ""Daryl Gregory, award-winning author"" ""Tidhar wins it all with this magnificently original mind-bender of a novel."" -- ""Junot D�az, Pulitzer Prize-winning author"" ""A mind-bending existential adventure that seeks to answer the age-old question of why humanity exists...This is a knockout."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Tidhar's rich portrayal of the pulpy golden age of science fiction, distinctive characters, and nimble turns of phrase make for a cool confection."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"""
Author Information
Lavie Tidhar is an internationally-acclaimed author of literature, science fiction, fantasy, graphic novels, and middle-grade fiction. Tidhar received the Campbell, Xingyun, and Neukom awards for the novel Central Station. He has also received the British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. Tidhar currently resides with his family in London. Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices. Maxwell Caulfield has played leading roles on Broadway in An Inspector Calls and on the West End in Chicago. He has worked extensively in film and television, most notably appearing in Grease 2 and Dynasty. Justine Eyre is a classically trained actress whose audio narrations have won the prestigious Audie Award and several AudioFile Earphones Awards.
