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Bomb Light

by Neal Stephenson 2 books in this series

Bomb Light follows Dawn Rae Bjornberg, known in the Soviet Union as Aurora, through the political and scientific crises that lead towards the atomic age. Polostan traces her divided upbringing between revolutionary Russia and the American West, while D: Heavy Water widens the story into an international contest over deuterium and the scientific resources required for nuclear weapons.

The sequence combines fictional spies, journalists and scientists with the ideological struggles of the 1930s and the approach of the Second World War. Espionage grows directly from personal loyalty: Aurora and the people around her must repeatedly choose between country, family, political belief and the knowledge that their work may determine the outcome of a future war.

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Books in this series (2 books)

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#1 – Polostan

Neal Stephenson

Dawn Rae Bjornberg is born in the American West to a family of cowboy anarchists but spends her early childhood in post-revolutionary Leningrad, where her Leninist father renames her Aurora. Returned to Montana as a teenager, she learns to move between incompatible political worlds while the…

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#2 – D: Heavy Water

Neal Stephenson

In 1934, British journalist Owen Crisp-Upjohn is sent to Moscow, where cultural reporting quickly becomes intelligence work. He enters the orbit of the unconventional Earl of Suffolk and Aurora, whose experience within Soviet intelligence makes her both valuable and difficult to trust as European governments begin…

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