Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

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Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings ( ISBN   0-8050-5867-2) is a book containing writings from four decades by the English author John Fowles. [1] It was published in 1998. Most of the contents are short, non-fiction pieces that had been written for various purposes since 1963, including forewords to other authors' books, and pieces written for science journals or other periodicals. [2]

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References

  1. Kimball, Roger (1998). "An assemblage of John Fowles's essays and cantankerous reflections". The New York Times.
  2. Aubrey, James R. (1998). Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings by John Fowles (review) (2nd ed.). pp. 101–103.