Where the Hell Is Tesla? a Novel
Title | Where the Hell Is Tesla? a Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Dircks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2015-01-16 |
Genre | Inventors |
ISBN | 9780692370667 |
"I found the journal at work. Well, I don't know if you'd call it work, but that's where I found it. It's the lost journal of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors and visionaries ever. Before he died in 1943, he kept a notebook filled with spectacular claims and outrageous plans. One of these plans was for an "Interdimensional Transfer Apparatus"--That allowed someone (in this case me and my friend Pete) to travel to other versions of the infinite dimensions that make up the multiverse. Crazy, right? But that's just where the crazy starts." [back cover].
Tesla
Title | Tesla PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Almereyda |
Publisher | OR Books |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2022-04-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781682192825 |
Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career. In these pages, we encounter Tesla's colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda's collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke, J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations - vintage and personal photographs, film stills, drawings and comic-book art - enhance the sense of time travel and parallel histories, as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy through the earth, of the electrocution of an elephant, of fortunes made and surrendered, and of the obsessions that propel a scientist seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a movie.
The Invention of Everything Else
Title | The Invention of Everything Else PDF eBook |
Author | Samantha Hunt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 054708577X |
Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last days.
Welcome to Hell World
Title | Welcome to Hell World PDF eBook |
Author | Luke O'Neil |
Publisher | OR Books |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1682192156 |
When Luke O’Neil isn’t angry, he’s asleep. When he’s awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter’s keys. Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. He details failings in his own life and in those he observes around him: and the result is a book that is at once intensely confessional and an energetic, unforgettable condemnation of American mores. Welcome to Hell World is, in the author’s words, a “fever dream nightmare of reporting and personal essays from one of the lowest periods in our country in recent memory.” It is also a burning example of some of the best writing you’re likely to read anywhere.
The Wrong Unit
Title | The Wrong Unit PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Dircks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-07-04 |
Genre | Androids |
ISBN | 9780692720998 |
I don't know what the humans are so cranky about. Their enclosures are large, they ingest over a thousand calories per day, and they're allowed to mate. Plus, they have me. An Autonomous Servile Unit, housed in a mobile/bipedal chassis. I do my job well: keep the humans healthy and happy."Hey you."Heyoo. That's my name, I suppose. It's easier for the humans to remember than 413s98-itr8. I guess I've gotten used to it.*** Rob Dircks, bestselling author of Where the Hell is Tesla?, has a "unit" with a problem: how to deliver his package, out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to guide him. Oh, and with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. It's a science fiction tale of technology gone haywire, unlikely heroes, and the nature of humanity. (Woah. That last part sounds deep. Don't worry, it's not.) ***
Power Play
Title | Power Play PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Higgins |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2022-08-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1984898248 |
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car—from award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins. “A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review Tesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the richest man in the world. But Tesla’s success was far from guaranteed. Founded in the 2000s, the company was built on an audacious vision. Musk and a small band of Silicon Valley engineers set out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, and cleaner than any gas-guzzler on the road. Tesla would undergo a hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals—pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers. Musk often found himself in the public’s crosshairs, threatening to bring down the company he had helped build. Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, breakdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success. A story of impossible wagers and unlikely triumphs, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of innovators beat the odds—and changed the future.
You're Going to Mars!
Title | You're Going to Mars! PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Dircks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-09-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781733017947 |
Rob Dircks creates a near-future filled with family, pop divas, mobsters, and the world's first trillionaire -sending them all on a scifi odyssey/comedy/love story/adventure that'll change their world forever.