Gaudeamus

Paperback | 7 January 2020

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In a tale that transgresses conventional lines between fiction and reality, renowned science fiction writer John Barnes finds himself in one of the wildest, most rollicking SF adventures in years.

Barnes's college friend Travis Bismark always brings back plenty of great stories from his job as an industrial spy. This time, over a few beer- and coffee-fueled chat sessions, Travis unravels a tale about his current case too tall for even an SF author to believe: a Gaudeamus machine that bends physics in order to make possible both teleportation and time travel, and how it gets stolen twice; a prostitute who deals telepathy-inducing drugs; five scientists who ride around in a flying saucer in clown suits by day and play awful punk rock by night; hippie kidnappers; and dozens of inventors who master the concept of the Gaudeamus machine and are immediately contacted by aliens offering them their heart's desire in exchange for the right to have their way with Earth.

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"A master of the genre." --Arthur C. Clarke on John Barnes"Welcome this writer to the front ranks of contemporary science fiction." --The New York Times on The Sky So Big and Black"John Barnes knows how to make readers care.... Barnes combines philosophical speculation, high-speed action, and character development in a way that is the hallmark of a master." --Los Angeles Reader on The Sky So Big and Black

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