- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781409079064
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
The Invention of Everything Else
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781409079064
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Completely original, one of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I've read in years
Dave Eggers
Samantha Hunt's writing is free of affectation and carries surprising conviction.
The New Yorker
A sophisticated pastiche of science fiction, fantasy, melodrama, and historical anecdote....It all adds up to a precocious math of human marvel.
Elle
Ingenious work of historical fiction
Marie Claire
Hunt presents a convincing portrayal of youthful confusion... [Her] gray, Chekhovian moments mark Hunt as a writer to watch.
Time Out New York
Dazzling
Vanity Fair
A brilliant evocation of the life of the inventor Nikola Tesla
Guardian
In language at once poetic and precise, Hunt sets the reader's sense of the "real world" gently askew: the result is a ravishing, utterly unique read.
Elle.com
Both intelligent and compassionate... admirably ambitious
Daily Telegraph
A fresh original voice....believable and hilarious... this is a literary novel that deserves a wide readership.. a real talent to watch
Sunday Express
Hunt's deft blend of sf elements and romantic subplots may remind readers of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, while her prose style and attention to historical detail are on a par with Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Hunt's greatest triumph, however, lies in her depiction of Tesla, who wavers between genius and madness with carefully controlled charm.
Library Journal
A fantastical story that engages the heart and mind, as Hunt pays tribute to the power of invention, and the enduring strength of love
Psychologies
Hunt has done a fine job of reanimating the dead and reawakening my curiosity about this odd, overlooked man... Hunt's prose is sylish and tasty and her observations wise and witty
Scotsman
Weird and wonderful debut novel
Red
Remarkable...Hunt wears her historical and scientific learning lightly
Financial Times
An ambitious conflation of fact and fiction
Literary Review
Samantha Hunt's fantasy comes closer than any biography to solving the riddle of Tesla's commercial and personal failings ... The Invention of Everything Else is perfect for nights spent in the wrong hotel, once your travel plans have, as usual, gone subtly awry
New Scientist
a fascinating blend of fact, fiction, history and dare I say, science fiction surrounding the weird and wonderful life of Nikola Tesla the acknowledged father of radio and AC electricity.
Dovegreyreader
her portrait of Tesla buzzes with vitality
Metro
This unusual novel skilfully interweaves the story of the eccentric inventor of radio and AC electricity with that of Louisa ... a compelling novel.
Emma Lee-Potter, Express