Table of Contents:
  • Light caught bending: Relativity in the newspapers
  • Einstein for the tired business man: exposition in magazines
  • Cracks in the cosmos: space and time in pulp fiction
  • A lady on Neptune: Arthur Eddington's talkative universe
  • A freak sort of planet: Dorothy L. Sayers's cosmic bachelors
  • Talking to Mars: William Empson's astronomy love poems
  • Conclusion: Dreaming the future.