Dexter Masters (1909–1989)
Auteur de The Accident
Œuvres de Dexter Masters
One World or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb (1946) 26 exemplaires
The cloud chamber 2 exemplaires
The Intelligent Buyer and the Tell-Tale Seller 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1909
- Date de décès
- 1989-01-05
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Springfield, Illinois, USA
- Études
- University of Chicago
- Relations
- Masters, Edgar Lee (uncle)
Brady, Joan (wife)
Masters, Alexander (son) - Organisations
- Consumer Reports
Consumer’s Union
Time
Fortune
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 64
- Popularité
- #264,968
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 6
- Langues
- 1
All of this is not without merit, for Dexter Masters so effectively captures the human element inside the science and technology disaster horror story that it is easy to forget that one is not reading fiction, but instead being carried by the narrator through his recollection - seeing the visions playing against his synapses as he recalls the daily events that have become burnt into his memory.
Yet, here we are and the book and the author are so thoroughly forgotten in the passages of literary history that no fewer than four publications have re-appropriated the title themselves. .
It is a shame, for this book reads like a warning to the future. The novel foreshadowing a range of issues surrounding the nuclear field - including radiation poisoning, worker injuries, community harm and even the moral debates over the right of magazines to publish details of nuclear tests and accidents.
If you can get your hands on a copy, it is a pleasure to read - and one I hope to find and re-grace my shelves once again.… (plus d'informations)