Dyson, Freeman

• Infinite in All Directions

  • One of the best science writers for the lay person and the scientist of this generation is Freeman Dyson. This man has a string of scientific papers on a broad variety of topics, and he always seems to be speculating about ideas that are more profound than most science fiction I read. But he does so with the backing of rigorous analytical thinking and a very worldly view. In this book, Dyson writes a series of essays (in the fashion of the more widely published S. J. Gould) on topics stretching from the fabric of the Universe to the politics of nuclear weapons. Readers of popular science literature will probably find his writing a bit more approachable than Gould's, but both are excellent. If you like one set of essays, you'll like the rest.

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