"A provocative and increasingly chilling work that shows how scientists in the nascent Soviet Union were sacrificed to the Soviet dream of building the ideal state."
"A keen, colorful contribution to popular science."
Science writer and novelist Ings (The Weight of Numbers, 2006, etc.) compresses an encyclopedia's worth of information about the evolution, makeup and function of the eye into an energetic, accessible volume.
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"Reading the book is like flipping through 500 channels without stopping—lots of color and glimpses of interesting moments, but little coheres. "
Three continents, 60 years and what feels like countless characters define this dense novel about politics, science and morals.
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