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The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn

By Bernard Jacobson

The Human Touch is the latest in a series of blockbuster volumes in which writers from whom you might expect something different have taken on the cosmos, whether conceived physically or in intellectual terms. [3 August 2007]