This post was most recently updated on January 22nd, 2012
Description of Love at Absolute Zero:Publisher:White Whisker Books
Date: September 17, 2011
Genre: Literary Fiction with a Twist
Format: Paper & Kindle, 311 Pages
Love At Absolute Zero is the story of Gunnar Gunderson, a 32-year-old physicist at the University of Wisconsin. The moment he’s given tenure at the university, he can only think of one thing: finding a wife. This causes his research to falter. With his two partners, Gunnar is in a race against MIT to create new forms of matter called Bose-Einstein condensates, which exist only near absolute zero. To meet his soul mate within three days–that’s what he wants and all time he can carve out–he and his team are using the scientific method, to riotous results.
“The scene where Gunnar participated in a speed dating session was worth the price of the book. It was painfully funny. I was skeptical of the idea of incorporating a complex subject like quantum physics into a love story that would be both readable and enjoyable, but the author hit a home run. It’s a very good story, very well told. “-Jim Chambers of Red Adept Reviews
“While Meeks is, in fact, doing new things with this novel (as all artists must!), he’s also allowing his natural talents to shine through by focusing on that which makes his other works especially gratifying – the quest for love, the quest for self-knowledge, and the quest for personal fulfillment. As engaging as it is amusing, Love at Absolute Zero is, ultimately, a heartfelt study of the tension between the head and heart, science and emotion, calculation and chance.” – Small Press Reviews
“It is a given, now, that Christopher Meeks is a master craftsman as a writer. What surprises us in this novel is just how much research he’s done to get the scientific part of it right. Where does all of this passionate knowledge of physics lie, knowledge that allows him to write so comfortably, opening every chapter with a scientific quote, that we novices stay on board with him? It is a gift—and one of the many that continue to emerge from the pen and mind and brilliant trait for finding the humor in life that makes him so genuinely fine a writer. The magical thing is that Meeks makes us really care about this strange bright naive nerd.”– Grady Harp (Top Ten on Amazon)
“I’ve read both of Meeks’s short story collections and The Brightest Moon of the Century. I roared through Love at Absolute Zero in a day and a half. Meeks’s prose is carefully crafted, his characters compelling and entertaining. I love everything he writes, and I recommend Love at Absolute Zero without reservation.”–
author, Kevin Gerard (Conor and the Crossworlds)
“Fortunately, the author has such technical control over his material that the reader does not share the same misery index with the main character as Gunnar bounces down a difficult path to ultimate happiness. It’s a great read.” –author, Philip Persinger (Do the Math)
About Christoper Meeks:
Christopher Meeks began as a playwright and has had three plays produced. Who Lives? A Drama is published. His short stories have been published in Rosebud, The Clackamas Literary Review, The Santa Barbara Review, The Southern California Anthology, The Gander Review, and other journals and are available in two collections, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons. He has two novels, The Brightest Moon of the Century, a story that Marc Schuster of Small Press Reviews describes as “a great and truly humane novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens and John Irving,” and his new comic novel, Love At Absolute Zero.
Christopher’s Website.
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