A Life Full of Quarks - Softcover

Johnson, C W

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798991428408

Publisher: Baryon Dreams Press, 2024

Synopsis

“...the best self-published novel I have read this year…clever, sad and funny by turns – and, occasionally, all at once”-- Big Al’s Books and Pals

“Heartbreaking and hilarious.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

2025 BIBA winner fiction/non-genre

2024 Indies Today Best Literary Science Fiction

“a masterful work of absurdist fiction that is remarkably grounded in authentic emotion and real science”-- Self Publishing Review

The genre-crossing misadventures of a lonely boy genius.

Vengeful dinosaurs. A runaway alien. Deadly subatomic particles. Parents who don’t understand you.

John Chant had an unusual childhood, sprinkled with a venomous pet lizard, a robot brother, an omelet competition, an island of monstrous secrets, and a malevolent chimpanzee.

Exiled and on his own, he later negotiates graduate school, atomic secrets, and the challenges of death-rays. John is skilled at math and nuclear reactors, but he struggles with the universe’s most difficult puzzle: love.

“Thrillingly inventive novel of growing up the son of a mad scientist.” BookLife review

About this title

About the Author

C. W. Johnson is a physics professor, journal editor, and author of poetry and SF stories published in magazines such as Analog and Asimov's Science Fiction. This is his first published novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baryon Dreams Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798991428408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346