“Tech Transfer” is the deceptively mild title of a mordant satire about scientists and universities and how they do business.
The best scene in this hilarious first novel is a meeting of the
trustees of Kershaw University, an elite research university only 200
years younger than Harvard. The trustees have to select a new president.
They listen with mounting dismay as the professional headhunter in
charge of the search reads out the polished résumés of each candidate,
but notes in each case the fatal flaws revealed by background checks,
ranging from spousal abuse to bestiality and, even more fatal,
plagiarism.
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Author: Nicholas Wade
