# Einstein's Monsters

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- Authors: [Martin Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1999-06-03

## Description

An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all. The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '" Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.

## Editions

### Einstein's Monsters

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9976-891-3
- Pages: 128
- Published: 1999-06-03
- Language: en_GB