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Bubble Chamber
Author: Dave Kress
Pub Date: 2019; 362 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59539-044-8
Price: $19.95
Description: Novella.
In the two complementary novellas
comprising Bubble Camber, Dave Kress
leads the reader on a dizzying chase through
rich and meticulously crafted narratives that
plumb the very idea of fiction in a post-truth
world.
Buda and Pest follows
a group of Hungarian rebels through invasion
and occupation, first by the Nazis and, later,
the Soviets. Their story rides the fault lines
of life and death, myth and history, peace and
war, futures and pasts, folk wisdom and
science, the hush of the unspeakable and the
irresistible rummage for words equal to a
thorny truth. Every juncture of this adventure
compels the friends to broker yet another
radical split.
In Fads and
Fallacies in the Name of Science, Kress
reimagines Martin Gardner’s 1957 masterpiece
of scientific skepticism as murder mystery and
narrative puzzle. A lab technician has been
arrested for the murder of Muriel Arkade,
Director of the Center for Applied Science and
Engineering. But why did he do it? The answer
may lie in his obsession not only with Arkade,
but with a host of crackpot theories, from
Dianetics to Lysenkoism to ufology to general
semantics to …. His colorful elaborations on
these theories, which he uses to rationalize
his heinous act, form part of an unpublishable
annotated bibliography he calls Myth After
All. But what is myth? What is
all?
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