Quite the mind-bending romp with history's greatest names. 

It's an ode to maths - which I failed! hard! - and great thinkers of the past with an added twist of the superhuman element. From start to finish a thoroughly enjoyable and edge-of-your-seat novella which will surely leave any reader scrolling through Google and Wiki pages about all the scientists that were mentioned here. 

I love when a modern title uses history's greatest names - it is sure to spark interest, intrigue and who knows, a different kind of fire, in some of the readers. Fiction can totally be a gateway drug to non-fictional knowledge and for this reason, I can also commend this novella. 

Now, I am as dumb as a table leg when it comes to maths, physics and what not. But I found this title nonetheless easy to follow. Yeah, sure, the non-Euclidean concept thoroughly blows my mind, but I'm totally sound with just going with the flow. Quite possible that some of the glory of geometry Mordechai intended to convey flew over my head as I was reading - I am naturally bad at picturing difficult to understand concepts (like the cylindrical sea in Clark's Rendevouz with Rama), and yet I still got my kicks, I could still imagine the weirdness author described and described well! I felt that even the start of the story was in non-Euclidean format... The present moment, the going back to what happened hours before... it was like having sea-legs, but sometimes even sea-legs are enjoyable, you know?! 

Interestingly, I read Mordechai's recent title (A Crack in the World) first and then found my way back to his first published title, The Gottingen Accident... and I was *so* thrilled to see that in both titles he used his fitting dry humor, and again as a rare occurrence, and damn it works so good. This excites me for author's future titles, for sure. 

Anyway, New Weird plus non-Euclidean geometry! Dive in and enjoy the wild ride!