Abstract
Author Dennis Overbye, science essayist for Time Magazine, has written a fascinating book which will appeal to the educated public and professionals in all fields of scientific endeavor. Overbye has written many essays and, in 1980, won the Science Writing Award presented by the American Institute of Physics. The book has no bibliography but does have 16 pages of photographs inserted between pages 216 and 217. It has a prologue, an epilogue, and is written in four parts, the titles of which provide no hint to the contents.