G640 Book Review of The Flicker Men by Ted Kosmatka
Name of Book: The Flicker Men Author: Ted Kosmatka ISBN: 978-0-8050-9619-4 Publisher: Henry Holt Type of book: Science fiction, thriller, changing the world, testing, experimenting, mysterious people, second chances, Wisconsin? Year it was published: 2015 Summary: Brilliantly conceived and multilayered, Divining Light is a high-concept thriller that questions what it really means to be human In Ted Kosmatka’s wildly original and genre-busting Divining Light, a groundbreaking new discovery changes the world forever. Out of a job and struggling with depression and alcohol abuse after a breakdown, the brilliant quantum physicist Eric Angus is given a second chance after he’s hired on a probationary basis by an old friend who runs Hansen, a prestigious Boston-area research lab. Unable to find inspiration for a project, Eric stumbles upon old equipment used for Feynman’s double-slit experiment and decides to re-create the test in order to see the results for himself....