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Reviews on Amazon of 1st Edition Truly bizarre, utterly uniqueI've never read a novel quite like this before. The author takes you on an exciting adventure full of unforgettable and vivid imagery. Solidly written with each character's personality shining through. If you find physics fascinating you will not be disappointed by the author's keen intellect and clear understanding of this most challenging (for me anyway) scientific subject. This is not a novel I will forget anytime soon, I would highly recommend it.Andrewly Very imaginative taleAnybody interested in a very imaginative and engrossing sci fi story needs to check this one out. I have been reading sci fi for decades and this story has elements that surprise me which is very unusual considering the number of novels and stories I have over the years.ric freeman Summary of the storyThe cosmic monopole has been wandering the Universe since it was created in the Big Bang. Its existence is fundamental to the way the Universe works. It is finally trapped by the powerful magnetic fields inside the ATLAS detector at CERN, Geneva, and begins to absorb protons from the LHC. Irish school-girl Catriona O'Brien knows nothing about this, of course. She has persuaded her adoring step-father Sam to bring her to Geneva on the pretext of visiting her mother Brigit who is the Irish Ambassador to the UN. But actually Catriona is trying to solve the mystery of how and why her scientist-father was killed in his Dublin laboratory six years ago, a murder to which she was the only witness. When they visit CERN, she meets the secretive little Chinese-Irish scientist Michael Zhang who not only worked with her father but has some knowledge about his death. But he is too busy to tell her the details. He is trying to solve a problem with ATLAS. The giant detector is being overwhelmed by an unusual amount of data. Everyone except Michael suspects a fault, but he knows that the monopole has been captured. However he keeps it secret and deliberately wastes time, waiting for the monopole to be transformed into a black hole, which he believes will be short-lived and harmless but fundamental for research. But the black hole persists and emerges from the detector. Sam and Michael battle to prevent it absorbing the whole world but are themselves absorbed. Moments later fragments of mysterious blue crystal emerge from the black hole and time stops everywhere in the Universe except near these crystals. Catriona can talk to Sam through her fragment, and he tells her she must collect all the others and bring them down a tunnel so Michael will be able to restart time and save the Universe. The only man who can help her is a womanising Hungarian entrepreneur Alex, with whom she has fallen in love but who seems completely unreliable.The Cosmic Monopole is the first volume in the Time Crystal series from Penny Press, a scifi-fantasy-romance on an epic scale whose setting is nothing less than the whole history of the Universe. This volume ends as Catriona finds and enters the tunnel. In future volumes she will embark upon an adventure that will take her back through time to the Big Bang and beyond. Catriona, Sam and others will struggle with particles and galaxies, with the very smallest and largest things in the Universe, as well as everything in between. But as she travels back in time, little does she know that other things, terrible and dangerous beings from beyond the Universe, are coming up that same tunnel trying to reach the Earth for a sinister and diabolical purpose.

Android es el sistema operativo móvil más utilizado del mundo y B4A es la herramienta de desarrollo de aplicaciones más rápida y sencilla, que permite a los principiantes crear potentes aplicaciones Android utilizando el lenguaje BASIC, de fácil aprendizaje.Este libro recoge la versión 8.80 de B4A. Comienza con guías paso a paso para principiantes que explican cómo instalar B4A, utilizar el editor visual WYSIWYG, planificar, diseñar, desarrollar, probar, publicar y ganar dinero con las aplicaciones Android en el menor tiempo posible. Describe cómo utilizar B4A para crear gráficos y bases de datos, para comunicarse con el usuario y para adaptar su aplicación de forma dinámica, consiguiendo que se vea bien en una gran variedad de dispositivos. A su vez ofrece una guía de referencia completa de cada palabra clave, objeto y librería principal.Esta guía completa es apropiada para desarrolladores tanto intermedios como expertos, pero también resultará útil para los que comienzan. Aborda todos los aspectos de B4A a través de una extensa sección de referencia para la ampliación de la herramienta utilizando las Librerías Adicionales suministradas por otros usuarios. Amortizará rápidamente su coste por el tiempo ahorrado en encontrar la información que necesita cuando la necesita.Puede descargarse una versión de evaluación de B4A gratuita de la página web de B4A.Más información sobre la herramienta B4A B4A supera a cualquier otro IDE para Android. La mayoría requiere que los desarrolladores aprendan Java con todas sus complejidades, así como que se enfrenten al uso de una plataforma de hardware desconocida. B4A hace que todo resulte fácil.Sólo B4A hace posible que los desarrolladores realicen fácilmente aplicaciones nativas y compatibles sin necesidad de escribir ningún XML, logrando prácticamete el mismo rendimiento que el de las aplicaciones escritas en Java. Con él, los desarrolladores que conocen Visual Basic mejor que Java pueden pasar de descargar B4A a crear su primera aplicación nativa en su dispositivo en siete minutos.

Android is the world’s favorite mobile operating system and B4A is the easiest Rapid App Development tool, allowing complete beginners to create powerful Android apps.This book, an invaluable work of reference for both beginner and expert, includes step-by-step beginners’ guides explaining how to plan, design, develop, test, publish and make money from Android apps in the shortest possible time.It explains how to use B4A to create graphics and databases, to communicate with the user and to modify your app dynamically so it will look good on a wide range of devices.It then gives you a comprehensive reference guide to the B4A language, providing lists, explanations and illustrations of every keyword, object and core library.What readers said about previous versions of this book:"Best money I've spent in a long time. Bravo" JonPM"Excellent! I have no doubt that this will become, or already is, the definitive guide to writing apps for any Android device." Amazon Customer"This was a book that I now use as a constant reference and have found it a mine of information. Brilliantly written and presented.""Excellent book. Just what I was looking for.""I will not now be able to think of developing an app without this book at my side.""This book does an excellent job of explaining most things. Buying this book was money well spent." Richard J. Garcia"A real must-have manual for B4A." Paul Holthuizen"The only one book available with good coverage of this programming language" ALEXEI BOGDANOV"good reference book for an excellent product." Richard Linder"I find it very useful right next to my computer when programming. Very helpful when needed to look something up or to study when not near a computer." Amazon Customer"It is very comprehensive and useful for Android programming." LIm, BongcheonWhat developers say about B4AB4A is used by tens of thousands of professional app developers. And their response? They love it. For example they say:"I’ve [made] more progress with B4A in 3 hours than I have in 3 months with other Android IDEs." Morgan Matthews."I must say as a Visual Basic expert B4A is the best software purchase I've made in a long time. Within an hour of installing I had a fully functional application running on both my phone and tablet." Dylan Palmer."[B4A] is the greatest product ever! After spending two months trying to learn Java, I stumbled upon you. I have been a VB programmer for 25 years, and I am in heaven now! Thank you!" Marc Mieher. On-line help is available, but it’s not always easy to find the information you want. That’s why developer Wyken Seagrave wrote this book, to bring together into one easily accessible work of reference all the information you need to create winning apps.