Ratner's Star

Ratner's Star is a 1976 novel by Don DeLillo. It relates the story of a child prodigy mathematician who arrives at a secret installation to work on the problem of deciphering a mysterious message that appears to come from outer space. The novel is told in two parts; the first is a conventional narrative, the second is less so.

Works by Don DeLillo
Novels
  • Americana
  • End Zone
  • Great Jones Street
  • Ratner's Star
  • Players
  • Running Dog
  • Amazons
  • The Names
  • White Noise
  • Libra
  • Mao II
  • Underworld
  • The Body Artist
  • Cosmopolis
  • Pafko at the Wall
  • Falling Man
  • Point Omega
Short Stories
  • The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Plays
  • The Day Room
  • Valparaiso
  • Love-Lies-Bleeding
  • The Word for Snow
Screenplays
  • Game 6


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    —Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)