Empire of the Stars
by Arthur I Miller
The context of the story is Empire and colonialism. The relationship is between this guy who comes from India to Cambridge and the grand figure of Eddington, and a denouement completely tainted by colonial strategies. I think that’s interesting as a picture of the world at the time.
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