Set in the mid-1990s when e-mail was just becoming mainstream, The Tantalus Letters is an epistolary tale of four academics – two scientists and two English professors – caught in a virtual net of love, lust, science and literature.

• Breaking and entering

  The Tantalus Letters: Prologue

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• Sex and brain-zapping

  The Tantalus Letters: Part 1, Chapter 1

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• Dangerous liaisons and the diagonal sweep

  The Tantalus Letters: Part 1, Chapter 2

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• Sperm viruses and the meaning of life

  The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 3

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• A flea on the surface of his life

  The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 4

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• Bunny-boiling 101

  The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 5

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• Hell hath no fury

  The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 6

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• Virtual restraining order

  The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 7

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• Visit from the top quark

  The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 8

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• Conquests as a function of time

  The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 9

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• A literary voyeur

  The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 1

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• Signal and noise

  The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 2

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• What makes you get up in the morning

  The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 3

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• Frying his fish

  The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 4

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• Experimenting into life

  The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 5

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• The mask biology wears

  The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 6

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• Mirror images

  The Tantalus Letters: Part II, Chapter 7

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• The F-word

  The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 1

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• Mouthing off

  The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 2

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• Intellectual theft

  The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 3

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• Potential difference, opposite charges

  The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 4

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• Neuro Death Squad

  The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 5

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• Danger outside the door

  The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 6

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• Pulling the trigger

  The Tantalus Letters: Part I, Chapter 7

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• Mainlining level 3

  The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 8

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• The crash

  The Tantalus Letters: Part III, Chapter 9

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