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There is “Suspended in That Incredible Moment: A Discussion with Rachel Robbins on The Sound of a Thousand Stars” at Chicago Review of Books.

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It's true, there is “Suspended in That Incredible Moment: A Discussion with Rachel Robbins on The Sound of a Thousand Stars” in its entirety here and there is some excerpt below. Cool? Indeed it is.

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Ben Tanzer

Let’s begin with what the title means to you—The Sound of a Thousand Stars—what the book is about and what you want readers to experience as they read the book.

Rachel Robbins

My working title was actually “Enola Spelled Backwards,” in reference to the Enola Gay. I thought it was fascinating that the aircraft captain, Paul Tibbetts, named the plane that dropped the atomic bomb after his mother, who in turn was named after the book Enola; or, Her Fatal Mistake by Mary Young Ridenbaugh. I’m fascinated by the implications of Enola spelled backwards—which is why Haruki’s storyline runs in reverse. Because what if we start at the end instead of the beginning? Could history have worked out differently?

I loved the title because it was a nod to Fred J. Olivi’s famous words on the evening news after the bombing of Nagasaki: “Suddenly, the light of a thousand suns illuminated the cockpit.” I also loved the reference to numbers. Caleb’s character was inspired directly by my numerate grandfather’s lived experiences in Los Alamos. It’s also a paradox since there’s no sound in outer space, so stars don’t make noise. But that’s the whole point of the Oppenheimer narrative, right? The story of Prometheus stealing fire from the gods, the desire to build a man-made sun here on earth. It speaks to that human curiosity, not of whether we should, but whether we can.  

If there’s one thing I want my readers to experience, it’s being suspended in that incredible moment—the uncertainty on the eve of the Trinity test. They were afraid the hydrogen in the sea and the nitrogen in the air would ignite. It could have been the end of the world. But if they did nothing, Hitler would win. So, they kissed their children goodbye and stayed up all night watching the sky, waiting for the storm to pass. The sound of that blast, which came a full minute and a half after the visual fireworks of the Trinity test, was a noise no one had ever heard on Earth before.