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A collection of short stories that touch on science, its experiments and hypotheses, and the changes it introduces in the world.

A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of...

This fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining will captivate listeners.

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book...

"A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and...