Where Do You Stop?


 

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Contents
 
About the Book   Summary and Reviews
Dedication and Epigraphs
Of Memory and Mush
Fantastic Contraptions
The Breadbasket of Babbington
The Real Value of Junk
The Mother Lode of Scrap
Splines
The Confusing Midgame in Chinese Checkers 
Miss Rheingold’s Big Questions
The Smell of New Pencils
The Pleasure of Surprise
Ontology, Epistemology, Bills of Lading
The Powerfully Disturbing Effect of Discontinuity
Chapter 12
Quanto the Minimum
Chapter 13
Patti Fiorenza Explains Zwischenraum
Chapter 14
Matthew Muses
Chapter 15
Within My Range
Chapter 16
Scrub Oaks
Chapter 17
Windflowers and Court Bouillon
Chapter 18
Bonne Soupe
Chapter 19
Shandy
Chapter 20
Depreciation and Diffusion
Chapter 21
Waterwillows
Chapter 22
The Builder’s Look
Chapter 23
The Value of the Experimental Method
Chapter 24
Television Comes to the Lodkochnikovs 
Chapter 25
The Electric Moonlight of the Round-Faced Set 
Chapter 26
A Slip 
Chapter 27
Uncertainty
Chapter 28
“There She Was, Just as I’d Hoped”
Chapter 29
Following the Route of Cross-References 
Chapter 30
Ariane’s Hip
Chapter 31
Miss Rheingold’s Resignation 
Chapter 32
If Legs Were Electrons . . . 
Chapter 33
In Which My Father Becomes a Homo Sapiens
Chapter 34
Our Final Contestants 
Chapter 35
The Game We Came to Call “Night Watchman”
Chapter 36
Caught!
Chapter 37
A Cosmic Snapshot
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Copyright © 1992 by Eric Kraft

Where do You Stop? is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, dialogues, settings, and businesses portrayed in it are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

First published by Crown Publishers, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. Member of the Crown Publishing Group.

Now available in paperback from Picador USA, a division of St. Martin's Press.

For information about publication rights outside the U. S. A., audio rights, serial rights, screen rights, and so on, e-mail Alec “Nick” Rafter, the author’s earnest agent.

The illustration at the top of the page is an adaptation of an illustration by Stewart Rouse that first appeared on the cover of the August 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions. The boy at the controls of the aerocycle doesn’t particularly resemble Peter Leroy—except, perhaps, for the smile.


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