The Circumference of World

by Lavie Tidhar

The Circumference of World

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<B><I>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 </I>(Central Station)<I> travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.</I></B><BR><BR><I><B> 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. </B></I><BR><B> <I>James Morrow, award-winning author of </I>Shambling Towards Hiroshima</B><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>The infamous novel <I>Lode Stars</I> 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 <I>Lode Stars</I> 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?
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<B><I>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 </I>(Central Station)<I> travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.</I></B><BR><BR><I><B> 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. </B></I><BR><B> <I>James Morrow, award-winning author of </I>Shambling Towards Hiroshima</B><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>The infamous novel <I>Lode Stars</I> 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 <I>Lode Stars</I> 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?

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