A stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale.

"A soulful riff on the birth and eventual demise of our universe...Lightman the humanist allows room for the compatibility of rationality with spirituality and mystery, while Lightman the scientist plays devil's advocate with the partisans of Genesis, blinding them with logic." - "The New York Times Book Review "Though Lightman's clever irreverence recalls Salman Rushdie and Kevin Brockmeier, his plainspoken style lends the book a fitting earnestness...Readers who don't mind the liberties the author takes with the sacred might enjoy this scienced fiction." -"Library Journal" "A scientific vision laced with the mirthful aura of divinity...aglow with wonder." -"Washington Post" "Just as he did with his incomparable "Einstein's Dreams," Alan Lightman again surprises us with a work that is utterly original in both form and content. "Mr g" is a philosophical fable which is at turns hilarious and moving, rendered with a literary hand so deft that the weightiest metaphysical topics levitate into pure delight." - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein "It would not seem possible for Alan Lightman to match his earlier tour de force, "Einstein's Dreams," but in Mr g he has done so--with wit, imagination, and transcendent beauty." - Anita Desai "Here is the creation of the Universe and the young Creator who grapples with what he has made--and ultimately with responsibility and loss...a gem of a novel that is strange witty erudite and alive with Lightman's playful genius." -Junot Diaz, author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" "This delightful novel takes the reader on a light hearted romp through the development of the universe from the Big Bang to its cold dark end, addressing along the way some of the big questions that inevitably arise from the development of intelligent life." - Jerome Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist

Alan Lightman is a novelist, essayist, physicist, and educator. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is married to Jean Greenblatt Lightman, a painter, and has two daughters, Elyse and Kara.