DocumentCode
76843
Title
When fiction meets fact [Back Story]
Volume
51
Issue
10
fYear
2014
fDate
Oct-14
Firstpage
4
Lastpage
4
Abstract
In Thomas Pynchon??s cult classic Gravity´s Rainbow , an immortal lightbulb named Byron runs afoul of a secretive international industrial alliance known as the Phoebus cartel. When the cartel detects that Byron has exceeded his programmed life span, the Committee on Incandescent Anomalies dispatches a hit man to take Byron out.
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2014.6905463
Filename
6905463
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