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3.5/5 Language English Media type Print (hardback) Originally published June 1976 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf | 3.5/5 Country United States Publication date June, 1976 ISBN 0-394-40083-6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 438 pp (hardback first edition) Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Don DeLillo books, Novels |
Ratner's Star is a 1976 comic novel by Don DeLillo. It relates the story of a child prodigy mathematician who arrives at a secret installation to work on the problem of deciphering a mysterious message that appears to come from outer space. The novel has been described as "famously impenetrable".
The novel is told in two parts; the first is a conventional narrative, the second is less so. The author has said that the structural model was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The novel develops the idea that science, mathematics, and logic—in parting from mysticism—do not contain the fear of death, and therefore offer no respite.
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