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Seeing the universe through other eyes intrigues physicist and writer Lawrence Krauss.

Fiction or non-fiction? He is enjoying Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Doubleday, 2003), a glimpse of the world perceived by someone with Asperger’s syndrome. But most of his reading is non-fiction: Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation (Yale, 2003), Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel (Norton, 1999) and The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman (Norton, 2003).

And for his next book? He is taking a trip through the classic Flatland by Edwin Abbott (Dover, 1992) and Lynda Henderson’s ideas about dimensional leaps from physics theory to canvas in The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (Princeton, 1983, new edition this year).