THE NEED FOR BETTER REGULATION OF OUTER SPACE

In these science-inspired tales Einstein ponders on the link between gravity and grief as he voyages in a freefalling lift between his wife and mistress, Turing is capable of imagining the distinction between computers and humans but fails to understand the nature of a police interrogation, Oppenheimer's isolation in a Cambridge laboratory leads to personal disaster. The suffragette bombing of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh in 1913 is finally explained, and Brecht's rewriting of ‘Life of Galileo' is influenced by Hiroshima. A student investigates the erotic possibilities of Einstein's relativistic thought experiments, a computer scientist breaks the barrier between simulated and real worlds, an astronomer uses a predicted meteorite strike to get revenge on her colleagues. Pippa Goldschmidt lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. She used to be an astrophysicist and her first novel THE FALLING SKY, about an astronomer who discovers evidence contradicting the Big Bang theory, was a runner-up in the Dundee International book Prize for 2012 and is published by Freight Books (2013).