Fe: an Atom's Tale

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  • Cloud
  • Atlas
  • meets
  • Forrest
  • Gump
  • meets
  • Albert
  • Einstein
  • in
  • this
  • fast-paced,
  • grippingly
  • brilliant
  • 8-billion-year
  • biography
  • of
  • the
  • universe's
  • most
  • interesting
  • iron
  • atom.Born
  • from
  • a
  • dying
  • red
  • giant,
  • the
  • atom
  • Fe
  • orbits
  • the
  • early
  • Solar
  • system,
  • trapped
  • aboard
  • an
  • iron-nickel
  • asteroid.
  • Now,
  • after
  • billions
  • of
  • years
  • of
  • waiting,
  • Fe
  • is
  • about
  • to
  • fall
  • to
  • Earth
  • and
  • into
  • the
  • clutches
  • of
  • vicious
  • and
  • clever
  • Homo
  • sapiens.Benjamin
  • Bronte's
  • brilliant
  • debut
  • novel
  • is
  • an
  • ingenious
  • telling
  • of
  • humanity's
  • past,
  • present,
  • and
  • future,
  • all
  • through
  • the
  • quantum-scale
  • perspective
  • of
  • a
  • single
  • atom.
  • Near-indestructible
  • and
  • ineffably
  • magnetic,
  • Fe
  • is
  • a
  • hero
  • like
  • no
  • other.
  • After
  • its
  • flaming,
  • plummeting
  • asteroid
  • slams
  • into
  • the
  • sands
  • of
  • ancient
  • Mesopotamia,
  • Fe
  • finds
  • itself
  • forged
  • into
  • a
  • deadly
  • weapon
  • by
  • powerful
  • princes
  • whose
  • peoples
  • have
  • not
  • yet
  • discovered
  • the
  • secret
  • of
  • iron
  • working.Time,
  • gravity,
  • and
  • fundamental
  • forces
  • march
  • ever
  • onwards,
  • leaving
  • unforgettable
  • characters
  • and
  • their
  • deeply-human
  • narratives
  • behind,
  • following
  • the
  • immortal
  • and
  • infinitesimal
  • Fe
  • to
  • its
  • next
  • grand
  • adventure.
  • Thrilling
  • scenes
  • of
  • the
  • Second
  • World
  • War
  • give
  • way
  • to
  • the
  • humorous,
  • and
  • often
  • maddening,
  • complexity
  • of
  • our
  • own
  • overconnected
  • 21st-century
  • world,
  • only
  • for
  • Fe
  • to
  • leave
  • Earth
  • forever,
  • welded
  • into
  • a
  • spaceship,
  • destined
  • to
  • settle
  • other
  • worlds…In
  • Fe:
  • an
  • Atom's
  • Tale,
  • the
  • science
  • on
  • every
  • page
  • is
  • meticulously
  • accurate,
  • while
  • its
  • immersive,
  • metaphor-rich
  • writing
  • style
  • ensures
  • that
  • readers
  • remain
  • entertained
  • rather
  • than
  • overwhelmed.
  • Benjamin
  • Bronte's
  • training
  • as
  • a
  • physicist
  • and
  • educator,
  • paired
  • with
  • relentless
  • research,
  • has
  • guaranteed
  • an
  • unprecedented
  • level
  • of
  • plausibility
  • for
  • a
  • work
  • of
  • science
  • fiction.
  • Readers
  • of
  • Fe:
  • an
  • Atom's
  • Tale
  • will
  • learn
  • how
  • magnetic
  • fields
  • work
  • during
  • a
  • shoot-out
  • in
  • a
  • drug
  • lab,
  • and
  • they'll
  • come
  • to
  • appreciate
  • the
  • role
  • of
  • hemoglobin
  • while
  • enjoying
  • a
  • tribal
  • feast.
  • Following
  • Fe,
  • readers
  • will
  • learn
  • about
  • metallurgy,
  • cosmology,
  • how
  • to
  • break
  • into
  • the
  • Louvre,
  • dive-bombers,
  • fair
  • prices
  • for
  • classic
  • guitars,
  • photosynthesis,
  • and
  • how
  • to
  • accidentally
  • start
  • a
  • religion.
  • Fe
  • may
  • be
  • a
  • single,
  • mindless
  • atom
  • of
  • iron,
  • but
  • what
  • other
  • novel's
  • main
  • character
  • rides
  • on
  • a
  • meteor,
  • is
  • captured
  • by
  • Nazis,
  • and
  • lives
  • inside
  • a
  • goat?Fe's
  • may
  • be
  • the
  • smallest
  • story
  • ever
  • told,
  • but
  • no
  • other
  • novel
  • has
  • gone
  • so
  • deep
  • and
  • in
  • such
  • an
  • entertaining
  • manner.
  • Garnering
  • instant
  • praise
  • from
  • fans
  • in
  • early
  • releases,
  • Fe:
  • an
  • Atom's
  • Tale
  • is
  • proving
  • to
  • be
  • a
  • remarkably
  • unique,
  • and
  • remarkably
  • entertaining,
  • debut.
  • Written
  • in
  • the
  • spirit
  • of
  • Isaac
  • Asimov
  • and
  • hard
  • science
  • fiction
  • like
  • Steven
  • Baxter
  • and
  • Arthur
  • C.
  • Clarke,
  • Fe:
  • an
  • Atom's
  • Tale
  • presents
  • something
  • entirely
  • new:
  • a
  • groundbreaking
  • novel
  • that
  • puts
  • the
  • 'science'
  • back
  • in
  • science fiction.
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