Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read.
But is any of Lode Stars real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?.
In Hartley\'s novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system.
The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes.
After Delia\'s husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer.
Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel.
But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous.
Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn\'t supposed to exist.
In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.
Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax.
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read
