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Darkworld Chronicles #1
Andronescu's Paradox
Armageddon is about to happen, but it's not what you think. This war is not going to blow anything up; it's just going to turn everything off . . .
On the top floor of Cornell University’s Clark Hall, physicist, Homer Layton and his three young PhD assistants are on the brink of a breakthrough, a way to induce a minute slowing in the flow of time. They suspect that their so-called “Layton Effect” will probably not turn out to be useful for anything, but the paper they plan to write will be a bombshell in the world of theoretical physics. But then Loren Martine, the youngest member of Homer’s team, notes something Where time is slowed, the energy in combustible materials is insufficient to flash. Things can still burn—though a bit more slowly—but nothing can explode. They envision a kind of Layton Effect flashlight that could stop a gun from firing, and realize it could also stop a bomb from exploding, even inhibit a war from happening.
It’s all pure theory until events in Washington suddenly bring the prospect of war all too close. With missiles incoming and outgoing, they turn on the effect to abort the war. As a side-effect, they have also repealed most of the last hundred years of progress. And now the real adventure begins.
On the top floor of Cornell University’s Clark Hall, physicist, Homer Layton and his three young PhD assistants are on the brink of a breakthrough, a way to induce a minute slowing in the flow of time. They suspect that their so-called “Layton Effect” will probably not turn out to be useful for anything, but the paper they plan to write will be a bombshell in the world of theoretical physics. But then Loren Martine, the youngest member of Homer’s team, notes something Where time is slowed, the energy in combustible materials is insufficient to flash. Things can still burn—though a bit more slowly—but nothing can explode. They envision a kind of Layton Effect flashlight that could stop a gun from firing, and realize it could also stop a bomb from exploding, even inhibit a war from happening.
It’s all pure theory until events in Washington suddenly bring the prospect of war all too close. With missiles incoming and outgoing, they turn on the effect to abort the war. As a side-effect, they have also repealed most of the last hundred years of progress. And now the real adventure begins.
590 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 7, 2013
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About the author
Tom DeMarco
33 books223 followersTom DeMarco is the author of fifteen books, including five novels, a collection of short stories and the rest business books. His most recent work is a seemingly jinxed love story, The One-Way Time Traveler.
Before that he wrote Dark Harbor House, and before that Slack and Peopleware and The Deadline.
Before that he wrote Dark Harbor House, and before that Slack and Peopleware and The Deadline.
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May 14, 2019
I rated this four stars, even though I found parts of it a bit uneven. What I mean by this is that there were some places when the characters went on and on talking about the physics involved. The book lost me a bit there. Also, at places there were so many characters discussed that I lost track of who was who. It also, as many books do, wrapped up quickly at the end. Despite these quibbles, I still enjoyed it.
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