The first time Alistair Finch saw the sun die, he was sitting in his study in Cambridge, surrounded by equations that proved it was happening, and his hands were shaking so badly he could barely hold his pen.
It was 1895, and Alistair was forty-five years old, which in the world of Cambridge academia made him simultaneously too old to be taken seriously and not old enough to have earned the respect that should have come with thirty years of publication. His papers had been rejected. His theories had been dismissed as 'imaginative but ungrounded.' His colleagues at the Royal Observatory, the men he...
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