Quantum Man by Lawrence M. Krauss, the book of the year according to PhysicsWorld.com, simply wasn’t good enough for Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of such works as The Road and Blood Meridian, so for the paperback edition, McCarthy, the former El Pasoan, offered his services as copy editor.“To start with,” Krauss told the Chronicle of Higher Education, “he made me promise he could excise all exclamation points and semicolons, both of which he said have no place in literature.” These elements of style, along with the stripping of quotation marks from his characters’ speech, are hallmarks of McCarthy’s writing. But instead of presenting them all as artistic statements, it might be worth considering that McCarthy was possibly working on a typewriter that predated…The post Cormac McCarthy Rewrites Science appeared first on Texas Monthly.