Ratner's Star
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Author | Don DeLillo |
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Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction novel |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | June, 1976 |
Publication place | United States![]() |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 438 pp (hardback first edition) |
ISBN | ISBN 0-394-40083-6 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Ratner's Star is a 1976 novel by Don DeLillo. It relates the story of a child prodigy mathematician who arrives at a secret installation to work on the problem of deciphering a mysterious message that appears to come from outer space. The novel is broken into two parts, the first is a more traditional narrative, while the second is less so.