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Fiction, Science fiction
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Mar 12, 2013 | 9781841497808 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 5, 2013 | 9781405525817 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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From one of the best-loved comic writers in fantasy fiction comes another absurdly witty science fiction title. Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett.
The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps.
For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more.
Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money.
Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own existence, news arrives that his good friend Professor Pieter van Goyen, renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died. And by leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit to Theo, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions. A journey that will rewrite the laws of physics. A battle to save humanity itself.
This is the tale of a man who had nothing and gave it all up to find his destiny - and a doughnut.
Tom Holt
Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines. These interests led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialised in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. He lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife and daughter. He also writes as K. J. Parker.
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