Bought this book by German author Phillip Schönthaler (1976) last February in Switzerland, after already considering it while in Berlin the October before, on paper. The narrator (which is the author) explores various scientists around the development of rockets, atom bombs, and computing, and their connection to fiction writing. This was published in 2024, and it reminds me a lot of Benjamin Labatut‘s The MANIAC and When We Cease to Understand the World, from 2023, and 2020 respectively, which I read August last year. As a result I’m left wondering if I really enjoyed this or not, or that I was just reading the German language version of a familiar story. I also bought some of this author’s non-fiction to explore.