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“Expands the future of the immigrant novel.” – Gish Jen, New York Times Book Review “Spectacular and emotionally polyphonic…That Jin has managed to craft such an intimate, emotionally complex story is an awesome achievement. That she managed to do it in her debut novel, doubly so.”...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this volume the Mad Scientist takes centre stage. Naturally the stories come in all shapes and sizes and in the pens of our classic authors the scientists more usually arrive as dark, twisted and evil as they go about their work illuminating humanity as only a mad scientist can.

Der Physiker Nikola Tesla galt lange als vergessen - doch seine unglaublichen Erfindungen waren es nie. Ein ausgerechnet in Deutschland wiederentdecktes Öl-Porträt des genialen Ingenieurs bringt Hacker T-Rex auf die Spur eines mysteriösen Experiments, in dem Tesla quasi "aus dem Nichts" Energie erschaffen zu haben scheint. Doch T-Rex erkennt das wirkliche Geheimnis Teslas. Und die übergroße Bedeutung, die diese Entdeckung - ähnlich wie Teslas Entwicklungen des Wechselstroms und der Funktechnik - wieder einmal für die Menschheit haben könnte.

Digging up the past isn't easy ... Sweet, funny and feel-good, the unmissable rural romance from the bestselling author of A Home Among the Snow Gums and The Vet From Snowy River. Dr Joanne Tan is an expert in a lot of things. Love isn't one of them. Being thirty-something, broke, divorced and...

Critics worry that the world will simply miss their smokestacks too much.

The extensive study utilized both an electroencephalogram and a finger.

NASA says the human race is 20 years away from sending a manned mission to the sun.

Scientists add that he’s the most compassionate gorilla-suited man they have come across.

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, is Mary Shelley's passionate and Gothic tale of terror, in which a man's desire to know the unknowable sweeps him into a living nightmare. Victor Frankenstein's experiments with life itself give birth to an extraordinary force with the potential for either good or evil.