A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopherβs Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophyβan ar
The philosopher's flight: a novel
β Scribed by Tom Miller
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 423 KB
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1476778167
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β¦ Synopsis
**"Rarely does a novel begin with rollicking fierceness that grabs readers from its opening lines and doesn't loosen its grip or lessen its hold all the way through... Miller's writing is intoxicating and one doesn't need to be a fantasy or sci-fi fan to adore this book." --Kim Curtis, Associated Press **
"The Philosopher's Flight by debut novelist Tom Miller has already set a high bar for any book vying to be the most entertaining novel of 2018."--Ian Schwartz, Bookpage
A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art. "Like his characters, Tom Miller casts a spell." (Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club and The Last Bookaneer)
Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy--an arcane, female-dominated...
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