Sugar in the Air - Hardcover

Large, E. C.

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ISBN 10: 0907259367 ISBN 13: 9780907259367

Publisher: Hyphen Press, 2008

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Back in print after an absence of nearly 70 years, the facsimile edition of E. C. Large's novel Sugar in the Air is what we now call a "mash-up," made up of scientific research, social satire, and fictional flights of fancy. Sugar in the Air (1937) is a "scientific romance" in which the idea of extracting sugar from the air is held, for the duration of the book, in suspended disbelief by characters desperate for work in a period of economic recession. A description of the product development and manufacturing process doubles as a critique of capitalism's stewardship of technological progress that suggests alternative production models for today's designers.

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E.C. Large (1902-76) was (in chronological order) an industrial chemist, writer, and plant scientist, best known for his book The Advance of the Fungi (1940): a magisterial popular history of plant diseases. The novels Sugar in the Air and Asleep in the A

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