Cover of The Boolean Gate by Walter Jon Williams

Thriller

The Boolean Gate

Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, and a machine for talking to the dead.

Samuel Clemens is old, grieving and famously sceptical. Tesla is building something in a New York laboratory that the newspapers do not understand and that Clemens finds fascinating.

A historical novella about two extraordinary men, the technology of séance, and the particular vulnerability of a rationalist who has lost a daughter.

First published
2019
Form
Novella
Setting
New York, turn of the century

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