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A Life Full of Quarks
Paperback
HumorScience FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Baryon Dreams Press
Published: Sep 24 2024
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
...the best self-published novel I have read this year...clever, sad and funny by turns - and, occasionally, all at once-- Big Al's Books and Pals
Heartbreaking and hilarious. Kirkus Reviews (starred review); Kirkus top Indie books of 2025
2025 BIBA winner fiction/non-genre
2024 Indies Today Best Literary Science Fiction
a masterful work of absurdist fiction that is remarkably grounded in authentic emotion and real science-- Self Publishing Review
The genre-crossing misadventures of a lonely boy genius.
Vengeful dinosaurs. A runaway alien. Deadly subatomic particles. Parents who don't understand you.
John Chant had an unusual childhood, sprinkled with a venomous pet lizard, a robot brother, an omelet competition, an island of monstrous secrets, and a malevolent chimpanzee.
Exiled and on his own, he later negotiates graduate school, atomic secrets, and the challenges of death-rays. John is skilled at math and nuclear reactors, but he struggles with the universe's most difficult puzzle: love.
Thrillingly inventive novel of growing up the son of a mad scientist. BookLife review
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