Einstein's Monsters: Stories
Nov 2025 · Picador
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About this eBook
A powerful collection of five short stories about the dangers of nuclear warfare, from the renowned author of Money and London Fields.
An ex–circus strongman meets his own personal holocaust and “Einsteinian” destiny; maximum boredom and minimum lovemaking are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a “father of the nuclear age”; and an immortal being reminisces on the creation—and destruction—of the earth and humankind.
In Einstein’s Monsters, an inventive collection of linked stories, Martin Amis presents a grotesque, inspired, unsettling vision of a world terrorized by the unthinkable but nonetheless urgent threat of nuclear warfare.
An ex–circus strongman meets his own personal holocaust and “Einsteinian” destiny; maximum boredom and minimum lovemaking are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a “father of the nuclear age”; and an immortal being reminisces on the creation—and destruction—of the earth and humankind.
In Einstein’s Monsters, an inventive collection of linked stories, Martin Amis presents a grotesque, inspired, unsettling vision of a world terrorized by the unthinkable but nonetheless urgent threat of nuclear warfare.
About the author
Martin Amis (1949–2023) was a British novelist and critic. His work includes fifteen novels, among them Money, London Fields, and The Information; two collections of short stories; five books of essays; and the acclaimed memoir Experience.
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