The Age Of Miracles
''The Age of Miracles'' is the debut novel by the American writer Karen Thompson Walker. It was published in June 2012 by Random House in the United States and Simon & Schuster in the United Kingdom. The book chronicles the fictional phenomenon of "slowing", in which one Earth day begins to stretch out and take longer and longer to complete. The novel received positive reviews and publishing deals totaling £1.12 million (£ million today), and has been translated into a number of languages. The book was nominated as part of the Waterstones 11 literary award in 2012. Background The idea for the "slowing" first came to Walker when she read that the 2004 Indonesia tsunami had caused the Earth's rotation to slow by some fractions of a second. Walker started researching the effects of a more large-scale slowing, mostly on the Internet, but also had it verified by an astrophysicist. As she was working full-time as an editor at Simon & Schuster, she took to writing in the mornin ...
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Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker is an American novelist. Her first book, ''The Age of Miracles'' was published in 2012. Walker's second novel, '' The Dreamers'' was published in 2019. Walker has been featured in ''Jezebel'', ''Electric Literature'', ''Publishers Weekly'', National Public Radio, ''The Washington Post'', ''The Guardian,'' and more. BiographyKaren Thompson Walker
was born in . She earned her degrees in English language and from the