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Alex Preston of The Observer went further, calling the book "beautiful and profound, certainly DeLillo's best since Underworld. [ 13 ] Joshua Ferris of The New York Times was effusive in his praise, declaring "sentence by sentence, DeLillo magically slips the knot of criticism and gives his readers what Nabokov maintained was all that mattered ...
The book offers a comprehensive look at number 0 and its controverting role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought and history since its invention by the ancient Babylonians or the Indian people. Even though zero is a fundamental idea for the modern science, initially the notion of a complete absence got a largely negative, sometimes ...
In its starred review, Kirkus Reviews called The Silence a "vivid" book, and that "in its evocation of people in the throes of social crisis, it feels deeply resonant." [ 3 ] Publishers Weekly praised DeLillo's "mastery of dialogue" and said the work stood out among DeLillo's short fiction but felt "underpowered" compared to his novels.
"Non-Zero Probabilities" is a speculative fiction short story by N. K. Jemisin, published in 2009 in Clarkesworld Magazine. The story features a semi-apocalyptic New York City where the laws of probability have shifted, and follows a young woman as she navigates a world driven by belief systems. Thematically, the short story deals largely with ...
The Names (1982) is the seventh novel of American novelist Don DeLillo.The work, set mostly in Greece, is primarily a series of character studies, interwoven with a plot about a mysterious "language cult" that is behind a number of unexplained murders.
Cosmopolis is the story of Eric Packer, a 28-year-old multi-billionaire and asset manager who makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut. He drives around in a stretch limo, which is richly described as luxurious, spacious and highly technical, filled with television screens and computer monitors, bulletproofed and floored with Carrara marble.
The book is the only one in the trilogy that follows a single cohesive plot, with the sequels both featuring multi-strand narrative structures that culminate in the end. Count Zero consists of three major protagonists, and chapters alternate from one character's story to the next. The first of these is Turner, an ex-military mercenary.
Joe Ledger is the name of an ongoing series of bio-terrorism thriller books written by Jonathan Maberry, beginning with the 2009 Patient Zero.The series also includes several short stories, audio originals and novellas.