- Richard Price: "An Introduction to Spacetime Physics - Stephen Hawking: "Chronology Protection - Igor Novikov: "Can We Change the Past? - Kip S. Thorne: "Speculations about the Future - Timothy Ferris: "On the Popularization of Science - Alan Lightman: "The Physicist as Novelist

One day Bill Charmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is or even who he is. His memory returns and he descends into a mental nightmare. With no conclusive medical answers, his wife thinks he is imagining it, while his colleagues are oblivious to his suffering.

Charles is a professor at a college, a once promising poet, admiring of passion but without passion himself. He decides to attend his 30th college reunion - and there witnesses a replay of his last year in college. Struggling with memories that often appear contradictory, Charles confronts the series of devastating events that changed his life.

This is a collection of essays which display the author's talent for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. These meditations touch upon both the ethereal and the corporeal: the dependence of a ballerina on the laws of physics; the chice every scientist makes between tinkering and theorizing; the unscientific nature of discovery; the mystery of human flight without propellers; and the impulse behind the unprompted smile.

The story of a physicist as a young man. Benito adores the rationality of physics and pursues it with a religious fervour. He finds very little rationality in his affairs with women however, they make no sense to him. Other work by the author includes Einstein's Dreams.