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The Smithsonian Institution 1998

By Gore Vidal, Michael Crouch

  • Fiction, Smithsonian Institution, Time travel, Gifted teenagers

It's Good Friday 1939, and a teenage math prodigy from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement.

FictionSmithsonian InstitutionTime travelGifted teenagersScienceAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, historicalLarge type booksFiction, historical, generalSmithsonian Institution BuildingSmithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)

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