A Life Full of Quarks

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...the best self-published novel I have read this year...clever sad and funny by turns - and occasionally all at once-- Big Al's Books and Pals</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Heartbreaking and hilarious. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>2025 BIBA winner fiction/non-genre</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>2024 Indies Today Best Literary Science Fiction</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a masterful work of absurdist fiction that is remarkably grounded in authentic emotion and real science-- Self Publishing Review</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The genre-crossing misadventures of a lonely boy genius.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Vengeful dinosaurs. A runaway alien. Deadly subatomic particles. Parents who don't understand you.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>John Chant had an unusual childhood sprinkled with a venomous pet lizard a robot brother an omelet competition an island of monstrous secrets and a malevolent chimpanzee.  </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Exiled and on his own he later negotiates graduate school atomic secrets and the challenges of death-rays. John is skilled at math and nuclear reactors but he struggles with the universe's most difficult puzzle: love.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Thrillingly inventive novel of growing up the son of a mad scientist. </em>BookLife review</strong></p><p></p>