[ SECRET POST #2101 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2101 ⌋

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Comments

Book recs?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking for any historical novels about a person who invents or discovers something of scientific or philosophical significance. Ancient world preferred, but any era welcome.

Re: Book recs?

[creambun]

Nonfiction or fictional novels? Sorry that I can't really recommend anything, but part of The Dress Lodger might fit. It's set in nineteenth-century England with a teenage prostitute and her child and a doctor discovers that the baby has his heart outside of the rib cage. It's not completely focused on that, though, more on the environment and moral horizons and such?

Re: Book recs?

[(Anonymous)]

I was looking for historical fiction based on real events or maybe creative nonfiction. The book you mentioned sounds interesting though. I'll give it a look.

Re: Book recs?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't remember if it was especially great, but I liked it well enough: Pompeii by Robert Harris. It's about an aqueduct engineer before and during the eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii.

Re: Book recs?

[(Anonymous)]

You might enjoy A. S. Byatt's Angels and Insects--the protagonist is pretty clearly based on Alfred Russel Wallace, a 19th century, working-class naturalist who traveled widely in South America and Southeast Asia, and independently came up with the theory of natural selection based on what he found there.

For more on Wallace, read David Quammen's The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. Nonfiction, but as absorbing as the best kind of novel.