Ratner’s Star

Author: Don DeLillo

Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent’s education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space…..Read More

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