Einstein’s Dreams

"This is a work of fiction that weaves in the whimsy of Einstein’s days as a patent clerk in Switzerland and the types of dreams he may have had. They are little fables that come from his dreams and that relate the theory of relativity to real life. What makes this little book so good is that, as Tom Stoppard does, Lightman understands the science as he ties it into a literary piece of whimsy. Well, time-travel dreams. A man is plucked from the present and put somewhere else and he thinks: ‘If I touch anything, will the universe turn out differently? If I go back and kill my father, will I never be born?’ There is also a dream in which time flows backwards instead of forwards. The whimsy is good and so is the physics."