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* Adams, Fred, & Greg Laughlin The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity (Free Press 0-684-85422-8, $25.00, 33+251pp, hc, June 1999) According to the authors the history of the universe has been so well charted by modern cosmology that it can be described in terms of five discreet ages: the Primordial Era, the Stelliferous Era, the Degenerate Era, the Black Hole Era, and the Dark Era. (Fri 21 May 1999)
* Brand, Stewart The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility (Basic Books 0-465-04512-x, $22.00, 190pp, hc, 1999) Short book about the building of the Millennial Clock, a slow computer designed to keep perfect time for 10,000 years. With a blurb on the cover by William Gibson. (Tue 11 May 1999)
* Levinson, Paul Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium (Routledge 0-415-19251-x, $27.95, 14+226pp, hc, May 1999) Levinson's latest nonfiction, a follow-up to The Soft Edge (1997), expands on the ideas of Marshall McLuhan in the age of the Internet. (Tue 18 May 1999)
* McGinn, Colin The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World (Basic Books 0-465-01422-4, $24.00, 13+242pp, hc, May 1999) A prominent philosopher tackles the problem of consciousness. (Tue 18 May 1999)
* Wertheim, Margaret The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet (Norton 0-393-04694-x, $24.95, 336pp, hc, April 1999) Latest in a small genre of books about how virtual reality and the Internet are affecting ideas of art and religion. The Amazon page has quotes from Andrew Leonard and Simon Ings. (Fri 21 May 1999)
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