A Life Full of Quarks
John Chant grew up swimming in a sea of science: his father an eccentric physics professor, his mother a former nuclear chemist, his older sister a pest and occasional Marxist, his 'brother' a robot, his pet a venomous lizard. In this darkly comic journey, positioned somewhere between science fiction, fabulation, and magical realism, John encounters dinosaurs, cosmic rays, alien astronauts, poets and atomic secrets, alcoholics and cancer victims, crackpots and Nobelists, brilliant, beguiling women, and an experimental chimpanzee. He goes to a circus, a nuclear lab, graduate school, an underground lair, and eventually a faculty position at a spectacularly dysfunctional university. Through it all John explores the fantastical mysteries of the universe, including the biggest mystery of all: love.
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A Life Full of Quarks
John Chant grew up swimming in a sea of science: his father an eccentric physics professor, his mother a former nuclear chemist, his older sister a pest and occasional Marxist, his 'brother' a robot, his pet a venomous lizard. In this darkly comic journey, positioned somewhere between science fiction, fabulation, and magical realism, John encounters dinosaurs, cosmic rays, alien astronauts, poets and atomic secrets, alcoholics and cancer victims, crackpots and Nobelists, brilliant, beguiling women, and an experimental chimpanzee. He goes to a circus, a nuclear lab, graduate school, an underground lair, and eventually a faculty position at a spectacularly dysfunctional university. Through it all John explores the fantastical mysteries of the universe, including the biggest mystery of all: love.
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A Life Full of Quarks

A Life Full of Quarks

by C W Johnson
A Life Full of Quarks

A Life Full of Quarks

by C W Johnson

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Overview

John Chant grew up swimming in a sea of science: his father an eccentric physics professor, his mother a former nuclear chemist, his older sister a pest and occasional Marxist, his 'brother' a robot, his pet a venomous lizard. In this darkly comic journey, positioned somewhere between science fiction, fabulation, and magical realism, John encounters dinosaurs, cosmic rays, alien astronauts, poets and atomic secrets, alcoholics and cancer victims, crackpots and Nobelists, brilliant, beguiling women, and an experimental chimpanzee. He goes to a circus, a nuclear lab, graduate school, an underground lair, and eventually a faculty position at a spectacularly dysfunctional university. Through it all John explores the fantastical mysteries of the universe, including the biggest mystery of all: love.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798991428439
Publisher: Baryon Dreams Press
Publication date: 09/12/2024
Pages: 346
Sales rank: 875,508
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

C. W. Johnson is a physics professor, journal editor, and author of poetry and SF stories published in magazines such as Analog and Asimov’s Science Fiction. This is his first published novel.
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