Napier's Bones Derryl Murphy, ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (255p) ISBN 978-1-926851-09-9 Murphy (Wasps at the Speed of Sound) introduces some fascinating ideas, but undercuts them ...

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Napier’s Bones heads off into uncharted territory via the notion of magical mathematics. Licence plates, credit cards, telephone numbers, and even baseball statistics are all sources of power for the ...