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Author
Index
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David
Ambrose |
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Title
Index
The |
The
Man Who Turned
into Himself |
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| Year |
1993 |
| Publisher |
Pan
Books
(Jonathan Cape) |
| ISBN |
0330326740 |
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Synopsis
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Rick
Hamilton has the
perfect life: a
great career, a
wonderful son and
a beautiful
wife. Until
one day, halfway
through a vital
business meeting
he starts doodling
- and a chilling
premonition tells
him his wife is
about to die in a
car crash.
After a frantic
dash to the scene
he discovers an
even more
horrifying
truth. It is
his car not his
wife's in the
wreckage.
Blood spatters his
clothes -
different clothes
to the ones he
wore in the
meeting. His
wife is there and
alive but why,
through her tears,
is she calling him
Richard? And
denying that they
have a son?
Rick Hamilton
is trapped in a
parallel
universe. In
an anything-but
perfect life ... |
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Review
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'Highly
ingenious
storytelling'
Douglas Adams
'This is a
novel which works
very well in three
distinct ways: as
a genuinely
exciting thriller,
as an extended
metaphor (quantum
theory apart, the
feeling that all
our possible
selves co-exist is
a common one), and
as an exposition
of advanced
physics which,
though always
comprehensible, is
suitably
mind-blowing'
Spectator
'I enjoyed and
admired this
novel, with its
twists and turns,
and its unexpected
perspectives,
which it would
spoil a reader's
pleasure to
reveal.
David Ambrose
juggles with many
spheres: chaos
theory, feminism,
creative
mathematics,
friendship, love,
and
jealousy. It
is well worth the
money to spend an
evening in'
Literary Review |
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Credit:
NASA
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Centaurus
A: X-Rays
from an
Active
Galaxy
Its
core
hidden
from
optical
view by a
thick lane
of dust,
the giant
elliptical
galaxy
Centaurus
A was
among the
first
objects
observed
by the
orbiting
Chandra
X-ray
Observatory.
Astronomers
were not
disappointed,
as
Centaurus
A's
appearance
in x-rays
makes its
classification
as an
active
galaxy
easy to
appreciate.
Perhaps
the most
striking
feature of
this
Chandra
false-color
x-ray view
is the
jet,
30,000
light-years
long.
Blasting
toward the
upper left
corner of
the
picture,
the jet
seems to
arise from
the
galaxy's
bright
central
x-ray
source --
suspected
of
harboring
a black
hole with
a million
or so
times the
mass of
the Sun.
Centaurus
A is also
seen to be
teeming
with other
individual
x-ray
sources
and a
pervasive,
diffuse
x-ray
glow. Most
of these
individual
sources
are likely
to be
neutron
stars or
solar mass
black
holes
accreting
material
from their
less
exotic
binary
companion
stars. The
diffuse
high-energy
glow
represents
gas
throughout
the galaxy
heated to
temperatures
of
millions
of degrees
C. At 11
million
light-years
distant in
the
constellation
Centaurus,
Centaurus
A (NGC
5128) is
the
closest
active
galaxy.
Photo
Credit:
R.Kraft
(SAO) et
al., CXO,
NASA
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