Bradshaw, Gillian - The Sand-Reckoner

[oyceter]

This, oddly enough, may be the Bradshaw that I fell in love with most quickly. It took me a while to warm to Island of Ghosts, largely because it was the first Bradshaw I'd read, and while I liked The Beacon at Alexandria, it didn't make me grin as immediately as this one.

Er, mostly that's because the two weren't on math.

The Sand-Reckoner is

Comments

[cofax7]

Hee! Eveeryone's reading Bradshaw!

I read Sand-Reckoner a few months ago, and I sadly wasn't as thrilled as you were. I liked it fine, though, and thought it was very interesting. I liked Marcus a lot, and found that whole plot pretty moving.

[oyceter]

I garner from rilina's reactions and yours that this probably won't be a general favorite among Bradshaw fans, though it is good. I personally don't think the characters are quite as compelling as Ariantes or Charis.

But the math! The excitement of the new machines!

/geekery

[jinian]

Do I remember Marcus? Only on beating the bushes of my brain to scare him out. Math and machines, on the other hand, were right in the middle of my glee over this book. I haven't found another Bradshaw I liked as much.

Unfortunately, I also haven't found any other biographies of Archimedes for people over ten, partly due to the annoying way physics and math books have of borrowing his name. I want more historical and technical detail, less of this "plot" stuff.

[oyceter]

Oh, no, no other good biographies? Sigh. I really want to have a good layman's summary of what exactly he did and how and etc.