Product Description: Ephraim Appledore-Smith is an ordinary boy, and up until his father's stroke he lived an ordinary life. But all that changes when his family moves to the Water Castle―their ancestral home in the small town of Crystal Springs. Mallory Green's family has always been the caretakers of the Water Castle―and the guardians of the legendary Fountain of Youth, hidden on the estate grounds...read more

Product Description: This anthology draws out and distills science’s love of narrative from a wide range of scientific disciplines, weaving theory into very human stories and delving into the humanity of theorists and experimenters as they stood on the brink of significant discoveries...read more

Product Description: In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for Planet X...read more

Product Description: A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona.

Product Description: Bobby Carson is proud of his lying expertise. His scientist father uses him as a guinea pig for a machine which destroys his ability to be dishonest, but has unhappy social consequences. Soon criminals begin exploiting the possibilities of a world without lies in a society built upon sham and pretence...read more

Professor Philip Engstrand loses the love of his life, a particle physicist named Professor Alice Coombs, to an artificially created nothingness she and her colleagues call Lack, a rift in the universe that acts much like nothing. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.