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The Teleportation Accident
Written by Ned Beauman
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Average Score:
90(2)
In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another--a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself.
Apolitical in a dangerous time, sex-driven in a dry spell, Loeser leaves the tired scene in Berlin in pursuit of the lubricious Adele Hitler (no relation), who couldn't care less about him. Heading first to Paris and then to Los Angeles, he finds his entire tired Berlin social circle reconstituted in exile, under the patronage of a crime writer and his possibly philandering wife. He also finds himself uncomfortably close to a string of murders at Caltech, where a physicist, assisted by Adele herself, is trying to develop a device for honest-to-God teleportation.
Following his breathtaking debut, Boxer, Beetle, Ned Beauman ups the ante, creating in The Teleportation Accident a marvelous mash-up of historical fiction, L.A. noir, science fiction, and satire, and proving himself a star on the rise.
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Book Details
Science Fiction
Hardcover,
368 Pages
Published
by Bloomsbury USA on March 05, 2013
First Published by Sceptre in 2012
ISBN-10 1620400227
ISBN-13 978-1620400227
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Reviews
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Fantasy Book Critic
| Liviu Suciu
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Review Rating: 100
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The Teleportation Accident is an extraordinary novel that is witty, funny and inventive, but also dark and serious when it counts.
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SFX
| Jon Courtenay Grimwood
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Review Rating: 80
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At times The Teleportation Accident is as bloody-mindedly difficult as Egon Loeser, but it builds slowly, brings its threads together with great skill, and Ned Beauman turns a good phrase as his characters dance their line between the cleverly obnoxious and the obnoxiously clever.
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