• 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