Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.’ That’s exactly what I was talking about.” “ ‘Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. “Well, there was a quote I couldn’t quite recall, and I just found it. “Remember the other night when we were talking about how much math and music are related?” It offered a little bit of shade, they could look out at the Pond, and it was three minutes from Papa’s office, which meant they could spend almost the whole hour reading together. Today they had chosen to sit against the west wall of the commissary for their picnic lunch. She leaned contentedly against Papa’s shoulder and turned the page. She was reading a biography, the life of Faraday, and she was just coming to the exciting part where he figured out about electricity and magnetism. All rights reserved.:ĭewey took a final bite of her apple and, without taking her eyes off her book, put the core into the brown paper sack on the ground next to her. The Green Glass Sea is her first novel.Įxcerpt. And history and curiosity.”Įllen Klages lives in San Francisco. The Green Glass Sea is not science fiction, but it is fiction about science. “Basement Magic,” a fairy tale set at the beginning of the Space Age, won the Nebula Award in 2005.
“My co-writer, Pat Murphy, a science-fiction author, encouraged me to write stories of my own. “My desk was covered with baking soda, Elmer’s glue, balloons, soap bubbles, and dozens of other common objects that became experiments, and the office echoed with the ‘Science-at-Home’ team saying, ‘Wow! Look at this!’ No science background, but I convinced my boss that in order to ‘translate’ from a PhD physicist, I had to ask lots of questions, just like a curious kid.
“I was at the Exploratorium, a hands-on science museum, working as proofreader, when they were looking for a science writer to do a children’s science activity book.
I love to look through old newspapers and photos, trying to piece together its stories. The city wears its past in layers, glimpses of other eras visible on every street. “I’ve lived in San Francisco most of my adult life. I’ve been a pinball mechanic, a photographer, and done paste-up for a printer. “But when I looked in the Want Ads under P, no philosophers. “It teaches you to ask questions and think logically, which are useful skills for just about any job.” she says. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Philosophy. Ellen Klages was born a in Columbus, Ohio.
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