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In the sixteenth century, on the island of Uranienborg, the pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is undertaking an elaborate study of the night sky A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world�s most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants�a filthy cast of characters�Sublunar is both novel and almanac. Alongside sexual deviancy, spankings, ruminations on a new nose�flesh, wood, or gold?�Brahe (a choleric and capricious character) and his peculiar helpers (�I would rather watch her globes tonight than icy stars�) take painstainking measurements that will revolutionize astronomy, long before the invention of the telescope. Meanwhile the plague rages in Europe... The second in Voetmann�s triptych of historical novels, Sublunar is as visceral, absurd, and tragic as its predecessor Awake, but with a special nocturnal glow and a lunatic-edged gaze trained on the moon and the stars.