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A book about creative genius from the Talking Heads co-founder and author of How Music WorksA ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is a brilliant idea that is ahead of its time.

So many breakthroughs in arts or science were like this, lost on their initialaudience and only later revived and acknowledged to be great.

This book asks, why do some ideas fall asleep? And how do they wakeup?

We love to believe in a meritocracy of ideas – that greatness is always recognised,innovation always seized upon and rewarded. Yet so many of thepeople we now recognise as the world’s great creators initially got little tractionfor their work. It was only later, often much later, that their work comesroaring back to life and made a lasting impact.

Discoveries as diverse as dark matter to continental drift, technologies fromsolar panels to the steam…