num_pages: 438
description: Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space.
language: English
title: Ratner's Star
titlecomplete: Ratner's Star
characters: Billy Twillig
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Collections, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2185
publisher: Vintage