Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island her love for mathematics and a novel that isnt supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fictionobsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delias husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, faceblind book dealer. The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley legendary pulp sciencefiction writer and founder of the Church of the AllSeeing Eyes. In Hartleys novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system. 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?

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: Tachyon Publications; Classification: FL; Weight: 396 g; Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 19

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