The Secret Invention

by Kenneth King

Overview

Adeena Adare, a glamorous and successful poet, is caught up in life-threatening conspiratorial crosshairs along with her twin brother because his secret world-changing invention, a nano engine that runs on dark matter and antimatter will render oil companies, nuclear power, and public utilities obsolete. The Secret Invention is a futuristic novel in which science, art, and technology transform the world, as we know it.


"It's technically science fiction, after all--because Adeena's brilliant, reclusive twin brother, Jeremy (imagine Andy Warhol as a humanitarian scientist), has just perfected "the Glass Engine," a revolutionary, new free-energy source based on lasers and nanoparticles... Jeremy wants the invention to be a gift to all mankind, not a secret hoarded by the greedy and dangerous 1 percent profiteers of Wall Street and the energy industry... Meanwhile, suspicious terrorist attacks start hitting the United States... The busy, fast-paced narrative serves largely as a vehicle for... [a] brisk... mix of New York City glitterati, literati, technocrati, and subatomic nuclei..."

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940150804388
Publisher:	Club Lighthouse Publishing
Publication date:	09/10/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	205
File size:	527 KB

About the Author

Kenneth King is the author of Writing in Motion: Body—Language—Technology published by Wesleyan University Press (2003), most of which can be accessed at Google Books His writings have appeared in The Paris Review, The Chicago Review, Hotel Amerika, /nor (New Ohio Review), Art & Cinema, Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, Shantih: The Literature of Soho, Movement Research Performance Journal, PLJ/Performing Arts Journal, Semiotext(e), Film Culture, Soho Weekly News, Gay and Lesbian Journal Worldwide, Dance Magazine, File, eddy, Ballet Review, Panache, and in the anthologies Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page, Merce Cunningham: Dancing in Space and Time, The Young American Writers, The New American Arts, Text-Sound Texts, Further Steps: Fifteen Choreographers on Modern Dance, Further Steps 2: Fourteen Choreographers on What’s the R.A.G.E. in Modern Dance, and The New American Cinema.

King also has a history as a multimedia dance artist who has performed throughout the US and in Europe. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and was awarded a “Bessie” New York Performance Award for/Sustained Achievement, which he declined to protest the Iraq War. He has taught in numerous universities and colleges and has appeared in the films of Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Gregory Markopoulos, Michael Blackwood, and in Robyn Brentano and Andrew Horn’s movie Space City. He is a graduate of Antioch College and lives in New York City.