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The Princess and the Physicist: A Positronic Book
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515450276
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Feb 28 2021
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A witty and incisive science fiction tale in which courtly romance collides with modern physics on an alien world.
When a rational Earth scientist encounters an extraterrestrial society structured around tradition, hierarchy, and royal expectation, neither logic nor ceremony proceeds as planned. What begins as a cultural exchange gradually becomes a sharp exploration of misunderstanding, attraction, and the limits of scientific certainty. In the tension between fairy-tale archetype and laboratory precision, Evelyn E. Smith finds both humor and insight.
Written during the rich ferment of mid-century speculative fiction, the story exemplifies Smith's ability to merge social observation with imaginative premise. The Princess and the Physicist stands as a compact demonstration of her distinctive voice-intelligent, ironic, and attentive to the human complications that persist even on distant worlds.
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