“At first there had been only an abstract concept. Without body, without reality: a series of calculations staggering enough, but purely theoretical occasional speculations among colleagues, a shadow on the edge of surmise. But as the weeks passed, and the months, as the intimations of Apocalypse became lodged in the mind, and work with pencil and paper, Geissler tube, mass spectrograph and cyclotron brought fresh data to confirm some of the boldest hypotheses, the thing began to assume the fearsome outlines of possibility. In the dark recesses of consciousness the nightmare took shape.”
Chevalier's gripping fictional treatment of The Oppenheimer Affair.
Author: Haakon Chevalier
Title: The Man Who Would Be God
Edition: First American Edition, first printing
Published: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 449p
Condition: Fair to good condition dust jacket with edge wear, chipping, tanning, and tearing with tape repairs—in the new protector. Boards and spine mostly clean with rubbing to surfaces, mild crushing at spine ends, edge wear and bumping to corners. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned.
Comments: Solid, scarce copy
