![]() ![]() AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYĪlan Lightman was born November 28, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee. ![]() The original edition of the novel remains in print, and a 2004 edition was released by Vintage Books. Given its weighty topic, Einstein's Dreams is one of the few contemporary novels about science to be studied in high schools and colleges nationwide. At intervals throughout the book, Einstein is depicted in his waking life as he works towards perfecting the theory of relativity, which will bring him worldwide renown. The book, then, is a meditation on the nature of time and of being human. Each of the physicist's dreams thus illustrates how humankind's various experiences of time affect their experiences of the world and also of one another. ![]() Quite literally a book of Einstein's dreams, nearly every chapter depicts a world in which the laws of time operate under different conditions. Set over the course of April 1905 to June 1905, the novel presents a fictional version of the physicist Albert Einstein as he forms his famed theory of relativity. Despite the fact that the book was Lightman's first work of fiction-he had only written nonfiction books on physics, astrophysics, and astronomy up until that point-the book was an instant critical and popular success, becoming an international bestseller. Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams was first published in 1993 by Warner Books. ![]()
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