ALAN LIGHTMAN is the author of seven novels, including the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams and The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is the host of the public television series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science. He is a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT.
“Aglow with wonder. . . . A far more subtle divine comedy. . . .
It’s a scientific vision laced with the mirthful aura of divinity.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“A soulful riff on the birth and eventual demise of our universe.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Lightman writes exquisitely, so this fable on the origin of space,
time, matter and life is a wordfest that is securely pinned to the
rational—making him a ‘magic realist’ of a refreshingly different
stripe.” —Nature
“Entertaining. . . . Clever and witty.”—The Boston Globe
“A scientist’s creation myth. . . . Lightman hints that in the face
of the universe’s wondrous complexity and tremendous capacity for
chaos, even an all-powerful creator may be humbled.” —The Daily
Beast
“A fluent description of the cosmos based on the principles of
quantum physics—a stunning, symmetrical light show of subatomic
particles.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Lightman is fundamentally serious, not satirical, and his awed
amazement at the universe is contagious.” —The Columbus
Dispatch
“The beautiful writing throughout this little gem of a book is an
Alan Lightman trademark.” —The Washington Times
“[Lightman] has, in Mr g, created not just a fascinating and oddly
moving novel, but an entire genre: call it cosmological scientism.
Or scientific cosmology. . . . There’s nothing else like it.” —The
Vancouver Sun
“A cosmic wink at the infinite loop of creativity and mystery.”
—The Miami Herald
“With wit and a good sense of humor, Lightman is able to approach
this very divisive topic in a manner that is sure to please
Creationists and Darwinists alike. He deftly combines theology,
complex scientific principles and more dilemmas into a lovely
tale.” —The Charleston Post & Courier
“A beautiful and philosophical fable that weaves the laws of
quantum physics into a modern Genesis myth that will stick with a
reader long after the book is put away.” —New York Journal of
Books
“With iridescent precision, fairy-tale wonder, and brainy humor,
Lightman crafts an enthralling and provocative cosmic parable that
offers a startlingly fresh perspective on the mysteries of the
universe and the paradoxical human condition.” —Booklist (starred
review)
“A delightful, sensual mixture of the mundane and divine—and
sometimes it's not clear which is which. . . . It deals powerfully
with some of the deepest issues of existence, ethics, and the human
condition. I think I’ve never read a more compelling description of
the beauty of the universe. Its irreverent awe is powerful. I loved
it!” —Kip Thorne, author of Black Holes and Time Warps
“This delightful novel takes the reader on a light hearted romp
through the development of the universe from the Big Bang to its
cold dark end, addressing along the way some of the big questions
that inevitably arise from the development of intelligent life.”
—Jerome Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
“Just as he did with his incomparable Einstein’s Dreams, Alan
Lightman again surprises us with a work that is utterly original in
both form and content. Mr g is a philosophical fable which is at
turns hilarious and moving, rendered with a literary hand so deft
that the weightiest metaphysical topics levitate into pure
delight.”—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for
the Existence of God
“It would not seem possible for Alan Lightman to match his earlier
tour de force, Einstein’s Dreams, but in Mr g he has done so—with
wit, imagination, and transcendent beauty.” —Anita Desai
“Here is the creation of the Universe and the young Creator who
grapples with what he has made—and ultimately with responsibility
and loss. A gem of a novel that is strange, witty, erudite, and
alive with Lightman's playful genius.” —Junot Díaz, author of The
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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