Fiction
Creation, a spur-of-the moment idea
An author has to be bold to write a book from the perspective of God. Even from theoretical physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, who first achieved literary success with 1993’s novel Einstein’s Dreams, it’s still a plucky gamble. In his new novel, Lightman again explores the creative scientific mind, here via the grandest of narratives — the creation of our universe from spur of the moment start to bittersweet end. It’s a literary experiment as heavy and airy as the Void in which the narrator Mr. g and his disapproving Aunt Penelope and steady Uncle Deva sleep and stroll.
