J. J. Connington

Nordenholt's Million (eBook, ePUB)

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Next morning I still felt the effects of the shock; and decided not to go to my office. I stayed indoors all day. When the evening papers came, I found in them brief accounts of the fire-ball; and in one case there was an article by Wotherspoon under the heading: "Well-known Scientist's Strange Experience." One or two reporters called at my house later in the day in search of copy, but I sent them on to Cumberland Terrace. In some of the reports I figured as "a well-known motor manufacturer," whilst in others I was referred to simply as "a friend of Mr. Wotherspoon." I had little difficulty in surmising the authorship of the latter group. In the ordinary course of events, the fire-ball would have been much less than a nine days' wonder, even in spite of Wotherspoon's industry in compiling accounts of it and digging out parallel cases from the correspondence columns of old volumes of Nature and Knowledge; actually its career as a news item was made briefer still. An entirely different phenomenon shouldered it out of the limelight almost immediately.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Librorium Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782385742959
• Artikelnr.: 68560436

Autorenporträt

Under the pseudonym J. J. Connington, Alfred Walter Stewart (1880–1947)  wrote seventeen well-received detective novels; Nordenholt’s Million is his only science fiction novel. Stewart was a distinguished British chemist and author of the popular textbooks Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry (1908) and Recent Advances in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry (1909). Via a 1918 theory of the physical chemistry of radioactivity, he contributed the term isobar—as complementary to the term isotope—to science.    Matthew Battles is the author of Library: An Unquiet History, Palimpsest, and Tree, as well as the story collection The Sovereignties of Invention. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science, technology, and the natural world have appeared in the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, and Orion. For Harvard's metaLAB, he develops research into the dark abundance of collections, cultural and technology, and conditions of experience in the context of deep time.   Evan Hepler-Smith teaches the history of science and technology and environmental history at Duke University. He has a special interest in the history of chemicals and chemistry, information technology, and environmental regulation. His book in progress is entitled Compound Words: Chemical Information and the Molecular World. His writing has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time.com, and Public Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword vii
Introduction: Benignant Fascism xiii
Matthew Battles
I Genesis 1
II The Coming of "The Blight" 19
III B. Diazotans 31
IV Panic 41
V Nordenholt 49
VI The Psychology of the Breaking-strain 75
VII Nordenholt's Million 103
VIII The Clyde Valley 121
IX Intermezzo 147
X The Death of the Leviathan 165
XI Fata Morgana 175
XII Nuit Blanche 183
XIII Reconstruction 221
XIV Winter in the Outer World 243
XV Document B. 53. X. 15 263
XVI In the Nitrogen Area 281
XVII Per Iter Tenebricosum 301
XVIII The Eleventh Hour 319
XIX The Breaking-strain 339
XX Asgard 349
Afterword: Alfred Walter Stewart 357
Evan Hepler-Smith