The first DeLillo book I ever read was Ratner’s Star, inspired by the many quotations Clifford Pickover interspersed throughout his mid- to late-nineties works.

The first DeLillo book I ever read was Ratner’s Star, inspired by the many quotations Clifford Pickover interspersed throughout his mid- to late-nineties works. One such quote haunts me to this very day: “No definition of ‘science’ can be complete without a reference to ‘terror’.”