- Monday 12 September 2011
7.00pm start
Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a science theme. If you're an interested reader who has something to say, then come along.
The format of Fiction lab is simple. All you need to do is check each month’s Fiction Lab event page for the month's selection, read the book beforehand and then drop into the Ri to discuss it with other fiction lovers.
Fiction lab will be held in the Sunley Room at the Ri. Admission is free and there is no need to book tickets in advance.
September’s book
The book chosen for September is Einstein's Dreams' by Alan Lightman.
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.