Einstein's Dreams #

Rating 4.2/5
Type: Fiction Novel

Review #

I was pointed towards this book, and Invisible Cities by some videos on Jonathan Blow(of Braid and The Witness fame), as these inspired him in many ways. I can see the inspiration, and they have inspired me too. These books are much more experimental in structure. Einstein's Dreams follow the story of Einstein the accountant before his theory of General Relativity, and his sleepy dreams in the mornings and nights. They present different possibilities of how time could work. Some cyclical, some where time passes at different rates depending on how close you are to a point in space. In many ways this book covers the human experience of time and how we relate to time and I think that chapter with how close you are to a point in space affecting how slowly time goes, with parents holding their children close in that point in space to be in a long embrace for a long time, while some children leave them and grow resentful of their parents living forever young while they age rapidly away from that point.

Just because of how intriguing its ideas are, I can solidly recommend this book to anyone who likes shorter more experimental fictions.

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Published on 2026/02/18