| Gore Vidal - Fiction - 1999 - 276 pages
A teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. Surrounded ... | |
| Gore Vidal - Fiction - 1998 - 338 pages
The Smithsonian Institution is a surreal narrative of quantum physics, string theory, clones, the sexual habits of Eskimos, and the domestic arrangements of various U.S ... | |
| Gore Vidal - Fantasy fiction, American - 1998 - 280 pages
In 1939 Washington, a 13-year-old math genius is summoned to the Smithsonian Institution to help scientists build a weapon to win the coming war. The institution's wax effigies ... | |
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