When We Cease To Understand The World Locus Award for Fantasy Novel (2019) " Guardian "A gripping tale

" Guardian "A gripping tale

deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts

In his hunger for power and knowledge

but if you are intent on veering from the straight and narrow

this remarkable collection gives a voice to Burma's 'woman of destiny'

When We Cease To Understand The World Locus Award for Fantasy Novel (2019) " Guardian "A gripping taleA fast paced, mind expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics, and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. Using extraordinary, epoch defining moments from the history of science, Benjamn Labatut plunges us into exhilarating territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness.