Alex Brett
Autor de Cold Dark Matter
Series
Obras de Alex Brett
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Brett, Alex
- Nombre legal
- Brett, Alexandra
- Fecha de nacimiento
- c. 1970
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Educación
- Dalhousie University (B.Sc. Hons)
- Ocupaciones
- park naturalist
writer
editor
media relations officer - Organizaciones
- National Research Council of Canada (media relations officer)
- Biografía breve
- Alex Brett spent way too much time in graduate school and still managed to leave without a degree, although she does have B.Sc. (Hons) from Dalhousie University. (author on right)But all those years of graduate school were not lost. They were enough to make her realize that she loved writing about science but hated doing it. She also, thanks to Dr. C.C. Lindsey, discovered a love of fish, in all their magnificence and diversity.
Alex has worked as a park naturalist, she's hauled nets as a field technician and she's worked in labs with research interests ranging from invertebrate biology to meteorology. She has worked with animals as diverse as the unisexual jumping wabeen (a little Florida fish, probably now extinct), to stream invertebrates, to olive baboons.
After eight years as a writer, editor and media relations officer with the National Research Council of Canada she left for the joys of writing fiction and a tenuous freelance existence. She has not yet begun to regret the decision.
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Reseñas
Cold Dark Matter: A Morgan O'Brien Mystery por Alex Brett
Cold Dark Matter, by Alex Brett, is the second in a series featuring Morgan O'Brien, an Ottawa investigator who is attached to the Canadian National Council for Science and Technology, whose usual beat is fraud investigation. But she's asked, by her old boss Duncan, who is himself in a precarious state concerning custody of his two children some years after a divorce when his ex-wife begins to demand custodial rights, to look into the apparent suicide of a Canadian astronomer who is working at a world-class telescope in Hawaii; the astronomer's diaries are missing, and something just doesn't feel right to Duncan. So in good faith, and with little information, Morgan flies out to Hilo and finds that things are far more mysterious than they already seem: the suicide is actually murder, there are dark forces working against her, and there's an extremely fit and good-looking cop who might help her or might shove her into jail. When more bodies appear, and more mystery looms, Morgan makes her way back to Ottawa, where the Cold War past holds clues to all the mysteries, if she can live long enough to figure them out.... I liked this book; it doesn't talk down to readers, assumes a certain level of scientific awareness but doesn't assume that every reader will understand the finer points of astronomy; it also makes a point of the often-overlooked fact that 1960s Cold War mentality, beyond the capitalism/communism schism, included the concept that male homosexuality was criminal and usable as a means to force people to give secret information to the enemy and was used in that way (lesbianism was barely on the radar then, because of course then women had almost no power that could be exploited in the same way). And I also loved the fact that the truth hinges on a scientist's decision to publish an article that denied the actual results of his work, which delayed the discovery of "dark matter" by a significant period of time! The author's website cites some actual historical facts to back up her story, and I will certainly look for her first book, Dead Water Creek, but unfortunately the last entry in her website is dated 2005, and there's apparently been nothing since. A shame, because Cold Dark Matter is that rare thing, a mystery novel based upon solid scientific grounds. Recommended.… (más)
½Meticulously researched background, and settings dear to my heart — the Canada-France-Hawai'i telescope and Ottawa — failed to redeem the lackluster mystery/spy novel plot. Much as I like the idea of "lab lit", fiction featuring scientists and their work, the writing in this one was too disappointing for me.
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 71
- Popularidad
- #245,552
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 9