Something, possibly the coming of the millennium, has prompted a number of authors to set up shop at the frontiers of human knowledge and scan the horizon to see what's out there waiting to be discovered. Science, unlike other human pursuits, has the nasty habit of answering the questions it poses. In the long run, that leaves it with nothing much left to do. Maddox doesn't stoop to acknowledge in print that his book is a rebuttal to Horgan's, but the two of them have become something of a traveling roadshow since their books came out. Our minds evolved to find mates and to hunt game.
Barrow examines the limits of our knowledge of everything from black holes to word games.
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