An important voice in contemporary literature. Sharp-witted stories, sparkling like a constellation at night, alternating between humorous, thrilling, and moving; told with power, spirit, and a bubbling wealth of ideas. The texts entertain at a magnificent level, as if one is nibbling from the tree of knowledge while reading. The book reimagines Bertolt Brecht's play "The Life of Galileo" with Charles Laughton after the bombings of Hiroshima. Albert Einstein struggles to cope with the loss of his first child. At a lonely research station in the South Pole, a scientist suffers from heartbreak. A student begins an affair with her married professor, and soon she must experience the fundamentals of astrophysics firsthand. A voice-activated elevator takes an instruction a bit too literally.