It's probably not a summer beach read but Eryn Loeb's The Invention of Everything Else (Houghton Mifflin), a fictionalized account of visionary inventor Nikola Tesla's last week on earth, would figure to have strong appeal to DMBN readers.
Tesla was a Serbian inventor, physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer celebrated for his revolutionary contributions to harnessing electricity and magnetism. His patents are the basis for alternating current (AC) systems and the SI unit measuring magnetic flux density, widely known as the manetic field.

The tesla was named in his honor in 1960 at the Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures in Paris. He's been labeled "the man who invented the twentieth century" and "the patron saint of modern electricity."


As the novel reveals, much of Tesla's research bordered on pseudosciences and paid homage to UFOs and new age occultism. Tesla was also said to have invented a "death ray" and had a love affair with a pigeon. That said, the novel has garnered rave reviews and seems particularly relevant to the DMBN crowd.

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