The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless.
Rule of 7 in research. You can find out anything if you are willing to go seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn’t know, ask them who you should ask next, and so on down the line. If you are willing to go to the 7th source, you’ll almost always get your answer.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.