Here Eyeball This!

David Heddle

Aaron begins grad school, fearful that he can’t compete. He’s about to form powerful friendships and
learn how physics and spirituality intersect. Meet Hiroshi, who enjoys beer and trying new words, with
hilarious consequences. You’ll laugh out loud when he battles Dennis Miller. Timil has trouble with physics
and a harder subject, baseball. Yen likes bathroom graffiti and the Bible. Dr. Jacob teaches Aaron about the
true origin of the universe, while Roche and Grace impact his life in fantastic ways. Together they face the
dreaded qualifier, a comprehensive exam standing in the way of the prize. When Aaron detects signals from Leila,
an undergrad beauty, uncertainty rules. She’s his student, which makes misreading the signals costly.
Then a trashcan provides a golden opportunity for Aaron. But is it one that he can accept?

David Heddle was born in Pittsburgh. A physicist, he has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
He has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland and the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. He was an Associate Professor of Physics at Christopher Newport University,
an Adjunct Professor at Daniel Webster College, and a staff member at The Thomas Jefferson
National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife,
two sons, and Labrador retriever.

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Reviews:

Walter Willeart. (Writer)says:
I was curious about this novel. First I assumed it was a college thriller,
after having read “The Rule Of Four” by Caldwell and Thomason for
which they got $400,000 in advance. Heddle could have been stimulated
to write likewise. Then I thought of Grisham. I had never expected that
such boring profession would lead to this heap of lawyer-related books,
but Grisham showed otherwise. A novel about math and physics?
What does that lead to? Exciting quadratic equations? But Heddle proved
me wrong. He didn’t produce another thriller, he wrote a great campus
story and he wrote it from an insider’s angle, and his truthful account
made me laugh and cry and upset. Heddle is a born writer, he brings his
characters to life; we can picture them and sympathize with them. He tells
us about what’s going on in this secluded world of science and his remarks
on Intelligent Design made me think. This is a novel that stands like a rock
and I’ll be reading it over again. It’s a pity though that Heddle finished with
a short description of the main characters’ further course of life. It would have
been great if he had written a second one that explains in detail what happened
with the CMU-crowd. It would have started with a reunion. Then we’d follow
Aaron in search of his past… I’d be the first in line to buy the sequel.

And a brief quote from a lengthy review by A Nashua Telegraph columnist:
"This is a rare novel that looks realistically at modern
scientific life, a much better way to break the wall
between the “two cultures” than the usual methods of
research memoir or popular-science explainer."
Dave Brooks Columnist.

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