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intended to make them geniuses (hence the punning reference to "concentration" in the novel's title). By breaking down rigid categories in the mind (according to a definition of genius put forward by
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Novi val v znanstveni fantastiki ali eksplozija žanra New wave in science fiction or the explosion of the genre : doktorska disertacija
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has himself injected with the disease, joins Camp Archimedes with his team of student helpers, and sets about trying to end the human race.
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in the US in 1969. Translations have been published in Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Serbian and Polish.
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The book is told in the form of Sacchetti's diary, and includes literary references to the story of
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and Sacchetti's friendship with ringleader Mordecai Washington parallels Faust's with
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modernism. In addition to the staging of Marlowe's play, the book alludes to
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Louis Sacchetti is sent to a secret military installation called Camp
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in 1967, it was published by Hart-Davis in the UK in 1968 and by
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In Part II, after a test run on the prisoners, a megalomaniac
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The prisoners in the book appear to be fascinated by
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Index


Thomas M. Disch
Science fiction
Rupert Hart-Davis
United Kingdom
Hardcover
Paperback
science fiction
Thomas M. Disch
New Worlds
Doubleday
Vietnam War
germ warfare
neutral
President of the United States
Robert McNamara
poet
lapsed Catholic
conscientious objector
Archimedes
syphilis
Arthur Koestler
Faust
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
Mephistopheles
nuclear physicist
alchemy
obese
Thomas Aquinas

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