Pippa Goldschmidt

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Falling Sky, an outstanding collection of short stories on the theme of science and its impact on all our lives In stories by turns witty, accessible, fascinating, and deeply moving, Pippa Goldschmidt demonstrates her mastery of the short form as well as her ability to draw out scientific themes with humane and compelling insight. This collection allows readers to spy on Bertolt Brecht as he rewrites his play Life of Galileo with Charles Laughton after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It introduces Albert Einstein as he deals with the loss of his first child, Liesel. We meet Robert Oppenheimer scheming against his tutor, Professor Patrick Blackett, at Cambridge University, having fallen in love with Blackett’s wife. We also hear the story of a female university student starting a love affair with her lecturer paralleled alongside the "relationship" between Alice and Bob, two imaginary figures that symbolize the theory of relativity. These stories' scopes can be epic, at other times intimate, providing a forensic examination of relationships and the forces that influence them.

The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space

Weiter als der Himmel

Ben Okri

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Elaine Chiew

Food can bring together families, communities, and cultures. It is the essence of life and yet our relationships with one another can be most fraught at the dinner table. This perpetually fascinating subject has inspired a unique collection of fiction—including flash fiction, essay, short stories, and even a "stoku" (amalgam of short story and haiku)—from a wonderfully diverse and international group of authors. The authors in the anthology include Elaine Chiew, Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni, Rachel J. Fenton, Diana Ferraro, Vanessa Gebbie, Pippa Goldschmidt, Sue Guiney, Patrick J. Holland, Roy Kesey, Charles Lambert, Krys Lee, Stefani Nellen, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Ben Okri, Angie Pelekidis, Susannah Rickards, and Nikesh Shukla. Elaine Chiew is a London-based writer who has won several prizes for her short stories and flash fiction. She was included in One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories. Many of her stories revolve around food. Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author, poet, activist, and teacher of writing. She has been published in many magazines and her writing has been included in over fifty anthologies. Ben Okri has published eight novels, including The Famished Road and Starbook, as well as collections of poetry, short stories, and essays. He has won numerous international prizes. Pippa Goldschmidt writes long and short fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Her PhD in astronomy inspired her first novel The Falling Sky, about a female astronomer who discovers the Universe and loses her mind.

Food Fiction from Around the World

Cooked Up

Der südlichste Punkt der Welt, der dunkelste aller Winter. Auf einer Forschungsstation vergräbt sich der namenlose Erzähler, nachdem ihn seine Freundin verlassen hat. Sieben Monate abgeschnitten vom Rest der Welt, so einsam wie im All. Mit dem letzten Schwung überwinternder Wissenschaftler taucht ausgerechnet der Mensch auf, den er am wenigsten erwartet hat.

Übersetzt von Zoë Beck

Der südlichste Punkt

Endlich ist es soweit: Pippa Goldschmidts grandioses Romandebüt erscheint in der deutschen Übersetzung von Zoë Beck. Jeanette, frisch promovierte Astronomin, macht an einem Teleskop in den chilenischen Anden eine sensationelle Entdeckung, die diversen Gesetzen ihrer Wissenschaft diametral entgegensteht. Jeanette weiß nicht, ob sie ihre Ergebnisse veröffentlichen soll oder ob sie damit ihrer Karriere schadet. Schließlich tut sie es und hat die gesamte astronomische Welt gegen sich aufgebracht. Sie stürzt in einen Strudel, der schon bald ihr Privatleben mit sich reißt und sie zwischen den Mühlsteinen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart zu zermahlen droht. Bilder ihrer Schwester, die unter rätselhaften Umständen in ihrer Kindheit starb, spannen sich vor die Wirklichkeit. Sie sucht den Himmel und die Erde nach ihr ab und verliert sich dabei selbst. Pippa Goldschmidts erster Roman ist zugleich tragische Kindheitsgeschichte und Wissenschaftssatire: Virtuos wechselt er die Erzählebenen, die sich schließlich mehr und mehr vermischen. „Die feinfühlige und faszinierende Studie eines Lebens, in dem Intellekt und fremde mikroskopische und kosmische Kraftfelder aufeinander einwirken.“ Stephen Fry

Weiter als der Himmel. Roman

A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, The Falling Sky brilliantly mixes fiction and astronomy into a fascinating, compelling and moving narrative. Jeanette is a young, solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos and incompetents, and caught in a cycle of brief and unsatisfying affairs, she travels to a mountain-top observatory in Chile to focus on her research. There Jeanette stumbles upon evidence that will challenge the fundamentals of the universe, drawing her into conflict with her colleagues and the scientific establishment, but also casting her back to the tragic loss that defined her childhood. As the implications of her discovery gather momentum, and her relationships spiral out of control, Jeanette's own grip on reality is threatened, finally forcing her to confront the hidden past. Pippa Goldschmidt's bittersweet debut novel blends black comedy, heart-breaking tragedy and fascinatingly accessible science, in this intricate and beautiful examination of one woman's disintegration and journey to redemption.

The Falling Sky

Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Pippa Goldschmidt, author of the acclaimed novel The Falling Sky, brings together an outstanding collection of short stories on the theme of science and its impact on all our lives. In turns witty, accessible, fascinating and deeply moving, Goldschmidt demonstrates her mastery of the short form as well as her ability to draw out scientific themes with humane and compelling insight. Goldschmidt allows us to spy on Bertolt Brecht, as he rewrites his play Life of Galileo with Charles Laughton after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She introduces us to Albert Einstein as he deals with the loss of his first child, Liesel. We meet Robert Oppenheimer scheming against his tutor, Professor Patrick Blackett, at Cambridge University, having fallen in love with Blackett's wife. She tells the story of a female university student starting a love affair with her lecturer paralleled alongside the 'relationship' between Alice and Bob, two imaginary figures that symbolise the theory of relativity. Goldschmidt's scope can be epic, at other times intimate, providing a forensic examination of relationships and the forces that influence them.

Gill Haddow

Fadhila Mazanderani

One hundred years ago Freud's definition of the uncanny was 'not the strange, but the familiar become strange'. In this anthology of new work from a range of writers and academics, the uncanny is a place where you feel at home - until home turns against you. It's a city where the streets can't join up. The uncanny alienates your own body from you through medical advances, such as prosthetic limbs or cardiac defibrillators. The 'uncanny valley' is a landscape where robots try to imitate you. This anthology gets beneath the skin and into the depths of what it means to be human in an age of machines and genes. Featuring papers and stories from Pippa Goldschmidt, Gill Haddow, Fadhila Mazanderani, Jane Alexander, Ruth Aylett, Christine De Luca, Vassilis Galanos, Jules Horne, Donna McCormack, Aoife S. McKenna, Jane McKie, nicky melville, Dilys Rose, Naomi Salman, Helen Sedgwick, Sarah Stewart, Alice Tarbuck, Clare Uytman, Sara Wasson, Neil Williamson and Eris Young.

Pippa Goldschmidt

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