Tyrone Slothrop a GI in London in 1944 has a big problem Whenever he gets an erection a Blitz bomb hits Slothrop gets excited & then as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence &a screaming comes across the sky& heralding an angel of death a V-2 rocket Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany Gravity&s Rainbow is never a single story but a proliferation of characters
- Pirate Prentice Teddy Bloat Tantivy Mucker-Maffick Saure Bummer & more
- & events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension It is a blizzard of references to science history high culture & the lowest of jokes & among the most important novels of our time Winner of the National Book Award

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‘ The greatest wildest author of his generation’ Guardian We could tell you the year is 1944 that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop & that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe & crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests But that doesn’t really begin to cover it Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish sinister mysterious absurd compulsive netherworld As the Financial Times said ‘you must forget earlier notions about life & letters & even the Novel’ Forty years since publication Gravity’s Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral ...

Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature It also has the distinction of being the oldest weakest & most difficult force to quantize Understanding gravity is not only essential for understanding the motion of objects on Earth but also the motion of all celestial objects & even the expansion of the Universe itself It was the study of gravity that led Einstein to his profound realisations about the nature of space & time Gravity is not only universal it is also essential for understanding the behaviour of the Universe & all astrophysical bodies within it In this Very Short Introduction Timothy Clifton looks at the development of our understanding of gravity since the early observations of Kepler & Newtonian theory He discusses Einstein's theory of gravity which now supplants Newton's showing how it allows us to understand why the frequency of light changes as it passes through a gravitational field why GPS satellites need their clocks corrected as they orbit the Earth & why the orbits of distant neutron stars speed up Today almost 100 years after Einstein published his theory of gravity we have even detected the waves of gravitational radiation that he predicted Clifton concludes by considering the testing & application of general relativity in astrophysics & cosmology & looks at dark energy & efforts such as string theory to combine gravity with quantum mechanics ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

In Gravwell Escape from the 9th Dimension players command spaceships that have been pulled through a black hole transporting them into a different dimension With each ship lacking fuel to get home each player must collect basic elements from surrounding asteroids using the gravity of the dimension & what little resources they have in order to reach the warp gate that will take them home But in this dimension moving ships will travel towards the nearest object which is usually another ship & when those objects are moving either forward or backward reaching the warp gate isn&t always easy Time is running out to save your crew & your ship! As a grim reminder of the cost of failing to escape the frozen hulks of dead spacecraft litter the escape route – but with careful cardplay you can slingshot past these derelict craft & be the first to escape from the Gravwell! This easy-to-learn game uses 26 alphabetized cards to determine movement order & thrust; most cards move your ship towards the nearest object but a few move you away from it Players will draft fuel cards in each round – picking up three pairs of two cards with only the top card of each pile being visible – giving you some information as to which moves you can expect from the other spaceships During a round each player will play all of his fuel cards in the order of his choosing During each phase of a round each player will choose one card then all cards are revealed & resolved in alphabetical order When your opponents move in ways you didn&t expect you won&t always be heading in the direction you thought you would! Each player holds an " Emergency Stop" card that he may tactically play only once per round to avoid such a situation Whoever first reaches the warp gate wins but if no one has escaped after six rounds then the player who is closest to the gate wins ...

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Guns &38; Ammo Candle Sculptures
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