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student protesters who demonstrate nuclear catastrophe by attempting to explode a cat. To get everyone away from the MicroMagnetics presentation, they cut off power to the laboratory where nuclear equipment is operating. The control computers lose function and in a flash of eerie light, everything in
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reviewed it as a "flat-out thriller, accurately described by its narrator-hero on the opening page as 'quite genuinely exciting and superficial'". It is applauded by user reviews for its extreme detail in portraying the difficulties of invisibility which makes it unique among other books sharing an
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is a graphic artist who does book covers. Nick meets her at a party that he is secretly attending where she is part of a conversation about ghosts; he leaves with her (telling her that he is himself a ghost) and begins a romantic relationship with her that becomes (for Nick) dangerously
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describes the book's dialogue as "absolutely true and suspense sustained at high pitch throughout, this supple fantasy attends so cleverly to plausible elements that it entertains from beginning to end". A review for
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two decades before. Eventually Saint decided to write a book that had a chance of doing well financially, and the concept of an invisible man came to him at some point - "I must have remembered
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was updated to the 1980s and Saint's "droll sense of humor", but criticized the uneven writing and wasted potential. Early on, H. F. Saint was devoted to becoming a full-time writer but later
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