I've always tried to imagine the outside of the universe since my teens. Imagine the possible nothingness that is outside of our universe. But my imagination has never satisfied me! Mr g is a story about the creation but not from religious view points. It's a charming story with theories, laws of nature and philosophies that we know about this universe. Things that we can imagine about the outside based on our current knowledge. This book was my companion to imagine the universe and nothingness. ( )

How the world began. What God was like then, and God's relatives. ( )

Alan Lightman ([b:Einstein's Dreams|14376|Einstein's Dreams|Alan Lightman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320511078s/14376.jpg|1820798]) once again bridges poetry and science in a novel that imagines God, the creator, while remaining true to scientific theory. He draws on apocrypha from Muslim, Hebrew, and Christian religions while deftly steering clear of the specifics of any of those. Mr. g is a fascinating thought experiment. [full review] ( )

While I did like this book for its humor and different take on creation mythology, a small part of me was hoping that this book would be like another Alan Lightman book I've read and loved, Einstein's Dreams. This wasn't it. It's funny, and fun to read, but it isn't written as beautifully as Einstein's Dreams is. ( )

Mr. g just decided to invent the universe after waking from a nap. After that, things change in the Void (where Mr. g exists). A hilarious, but scientifically sound, look at the beginning of the universe - with a great deal of imagination thrown in, as worlds get populated by life of all sorts. The one main problem I have is that the worlds are all too similar to earth, which suggests that perhaps the author's imagination falters a bit on making creatures that were something other than human in their parts. This probably would not have been a downside, had I not read Philip Pullman, and his fantastic array of creatures, all fitting within the bounds of evolutionary theory, which some of the creatures (the less humanoid ones) in this book by a theoretical physicist, do not. A delightful read, and one of those books that you feel could have been a bit longer. ( )