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Welcome to Carl's book corner. Here you could well find discussions on the latest web page or hard to find used bookstore tomes. I suspect a lot of them will come off my own bookshelves. Well hey they are my favorites, else I would have traded them in long ago. But hey if you have something I really really should read drop me an email, maybe even a review. I will certainly consider it and most assuredly give you credit for your work. If you submit please include as much background as you can. Enjoy.

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Title: Frozen Star

Author: George Greenstein

I won't say this is a book for the layman, but Frozen Star is a well piece of non-fiction about - yeah you guessed it - astronomy and stars. Greenstein takes the reader on a wonderful journey of science exploration from the first hints of Pulsars through the mounting pile of evidence for Black Holes. A gifted writer, this man, I felt I was reading a mystery novel rather than a science treatise on a subject as dry as a math equation. And just when you thought the man has covered everything he explains how black holes have been with us all along in fables, mythology and literature as powerful whirlpools drawing sailors to their death. And speaking of mythological characters - Stephen Hawking is there too.

My advice - hunt through your favorite used book store. If they don't have it, keep looking. You won't regret the effort.

Carl A Smith

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Carl A Smith
Spring `98