ASIN: B007O0FNQA
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 469
Houdini Scientist: Noun.1) A young inventor that hides the secrets to her science behind elaborate misdirection and an illusion of incomprehensible complexity, like a magician would.2) Just another soulless zombie trapped in a secret base that officially doesn't exist.3) A girl that will save the world, if she can save herself first.* * *"Some savants can play concert-level piano at the age of five, without ever taking a lesson. Others can do advanced math in their heads, draw a Picasso with crayons, or recite every word they've ever read or heard. Her piano was a lathe, a plasma cutter, and an automated mill. And the songs she played shook the world."* * * In the control room of a secret mountain base, a dozen engineers crowded around a wall of monitors as the girl on the screens connected the final pieces of a month long, multimillion-dollar project. "They can't seriously be thinking ...
