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Resumen de La grieta del destino
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You will love this if you enjoy early science fiction, mad scientists with real menace, Victorian adventure at sea, or a love story set against a looming deadline.
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What if a stranger on a ship told you the universe is a mistake, and meant it? In Robert Cromie's The Crack of Doom, Arthur Marcel, a young man who has studied medicine, hears those words and follows their speaker into a secret society. You get a thriller of science, love and dread, told by the man who lived it. First, meet Herbert Brande and the odd evening on deck that begins it all.
En este resumen
- 1A chance remark on a ship starts everythingFree
- 2The Society shows a machine that destroys atoms
- 3A club that keeps its secret by killing
- 4Two modern women challenge an old-fashioned man
- 5Brande says suffering is built into nature
- 6The yacht Esmeralda sails with a drop of water
- 7What the story is about and how it is told
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A chance remark on a ship starts everything
The story begins aboard the liner Majestic, bound for Queenstown. Arthur Marcel, a thirty-one-year-old Englishman who studied medicine and then spent an inheritance on travel, falls into talk with a fellow passenger, Herbert Brande. Brande dismisses the stars and the whole universe with one sentence, and he is serious.
Brande then mentions a group he has founded, the Cui Bono Society, a Latin name that asks what good anything is. Marcel is more taken by Brande's sister, Natalie, a dark, gentle woman with an odd habit of speaking about life and death in strange ways. Before she leaves the ship, she answers a private thought of his that he never spoke aloud.
So the first idea of the book is plain. Marcel does not join for science. He joins for love, and that choice, made lightly, shapes every danger that follows.
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Questions about La grieta del destino
What is The Crack of Doom about?
Arthur Marcel joins the Cui Bono Society to be near Natalie Brande. He learns that her brother Herbert plans to destroy the earth with a force from the atom, and he sails with them to try to stop it.
Who is Herbert Brande?
Brande is the founder of the Society, a pale, brilliant scientist who thinks the universe is a mistake full of needless suffering. He has built instruments that destroy atoms and believes ending the world is an act of mercy.
What does Cui Bono mean in the book?
In the book, Cui Bono asks what good it all does. The Society uses it to ask what good all human life and happiness really are, and Brande's lecture of the same name gives his answer.
Is The Crack of Doom easy to follow?
Short chapters, a clear first-person narrator and a steady chain of dramatic scenes keep it moving. The science is explained in simple images, such as spheres in a tiny chamber, so any listener can follow along.