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Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman (1993)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age13
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Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

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Positive tags

Self-DiscoveryHopeful Ending

Hero archetypes

ScientistScholar / Academic

Tropes

Fish out of WaterTime Travel

Themes

TimePerception and RealityPhilosophyImaginationScientific DiscoveryThe Nature of Existence

Synopsis

A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity.

Tags

Literary FantasyPhilosophical FictionSpeculative FictionExperimental Fiction