Happy birthday, Mr. Tesla

I learned from the all-knowing Google that today is Nikola Tesla’s 115th birthday.

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Surprisingly, this scientist has appeared in at least three recent works of fiction. (Links will take you to the BookPage reviews.)
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Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (who doesn’t appear in that book?)

Samantha Hunt’s The Invention of Everything Else

And Toni Jordan’s Addition—but just as a photo on the wall.

Anyone have other Tesla spottings in literature?

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3 Responses to “Happy birthday, Mr. Tesla”

  1. Karen Elley Says:
    July 15, 2009 at 12:20 pm | Reply

    Tesla is in good company—Einstein, Edison, da Vinci, and Ben Franklin—in J.G. Sandom’s page-turning thriller, The God Machine, released in paperback in May 2009.

  2. Davin Says:
    July 15, 2009 at 3:32 pm | Reply

    He’s played by David Bowie in the film adaptation of Christoper Priest’s ‘The Prestige.’ Haven’t read the book yet, but it’s sitting on my shelf.

  3. Curt Jarrell Says:
    July 15, 2009 at 3:33 pm | Reply

    Tesla also figures prominently in the forthcoming novel The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming which Amy Einhorn/Putnam will publish in January 2010.

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