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She is one of “three playable characters” that Gilbert has unveiled in three days on his personal gaming blog, Grumpy Gamer. Yesterday and the previous day Gilbert revealed the monk and the hillbilly.

The time traveler’s silhouette is visible in the background of the puzzle Double Fine sent us earlier this month. We have to admit, she looks way cooler with glowing blue (we assume time-travel-inducing) accessories than as a vague, whispy shadow.

The plot, and the question, thickens: What do a hillbilly, a monk and a time traveler have in common?

‘Time Traveler’ is another playable character in Double Fine’s mystery game originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Hardcover, 320 pages | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction – Family; Juvenile Fiction – School & Education; Juvenile Fiction – Social Situations | $12.99 | June 12, 2012 | 978-0-385-74198-9 (0-385-74198-7)

eBook, 192 pages | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction – Family; Juvenile Fiction – School & Education; Juvenile Fiction – Social Situations | $9.99 | June 12, 2012 | 978-0-375-98894-3 (0-375-98894-7)

Meet Katie Sutton. She may just look like your average thirteen-year-old girl but in reality, she’s the world’s leading expert in Grown Up behavior. And you’re in luck because in your hands you hold a one-of-a-kind guide to training your parent and becoming highly skilled at: understanding their insane behavior, predicting their next moves, and operating them to your best advantage. So please keep this book out of the way of your grown up, we don’t want them going into “grumpy mode” too soon.

Hardcover, 368 pages | Delacorte Press | Biography & Autobiography; Mathematics; Biography & Autobiography – Literary | $25.00 | February 28, 2012 | 978-0-385-34108-0 (0-385-34108-3)

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Alexander Masters tripped over his first book subject on a Cambridge sidewalk, and the result was the multi-award-winning bestseller Stuart: A Life Backwards. His second, he’s found under his floorboards.
 
One of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the twentieth century, Simon Norton stomps around Alexander’s basement in semidarkness, dodging between stalagmites of bus timetables and engorged plastic bags, eating tinned kippers stirred into packets of Bombay mix. Simon is exploring a theoretical puzzle so complex and critical to our understanding of the universe that it is known as the Monster. It looks like a sudoku table—except a sudoku table has nine columns of numbers.
 
The Monster has 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000 columns.
 
But that’s not the whole story. What’s inside the decaying sports bag he never lets out of his clutches? Why does he hurtle out of the house in the middle of the night? And—good God!—what is that noxious smell that creeps up the stairwell?
 
Grumpy, poignant, comical—more intimate than either the author or his quarry intended—Simon: The Genius in My Basement is the story of a friendship and a pursuit.  Part biography, part memoir, and part popular science, it is a study of the frailty of brilliance, the measures of happiness, and Britain’s most uncooperative egghead eccentric.