- Monday 7 September 2009
7.00pm start
Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly Ri book club dedicated to great fiction books that feature science at their core. If you're an interested reader who has something to say, then come along.
The format of Fiction Lab is simple. All you need to do is check this webpage for this month's selection, read the book beforehand and come along to the café at the Ri to discuss it with other fiction lovers.
Fiction Lab is held in the café at the Ri. Admission is free and there is no need to book tickets in advance.
September's Book
Turbulence by Giles Foden
The D-day landings - the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe - depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even possible to predict the weather so far ahead? And what is the relationship between predictability and turbulence, one of the last great mysteries of modern physics?
Wallace Ryman has devised a system that comprehends all of this - but he is a reclusive pacifist who stubbornly refuses to divulge his secrets.
Henry Meadows, a young maths prodigy from the Met Office, is sent to Scotland to discover Ryman's system and apply it to the Normandy landings.
But turbulence proves more elusive than anyone could have imagined, and events, like the weather, begin to spiral out of control.
From Giles Foden, prize-winning author of 'The Last King of Scotland', a gripping blend of fact and fiction in a novel about how human beings deal with uncertainty.