I checked out a book from the library called Icarus at the Edge of Time. It's a board book about a boy living on a generation ship who decides to defy orders and investigate a black hole. Due to the gravitational effects on time, instead of coming right back to his family on the ship, 10,000 years pass and everything is different.
Zula loves the pictures, they are all Hubble photographs. However, Ducky is disturbed by the boy never being able to return to his family. That's the interesting thing about acquiring knowledge. It changes us and maybe not always for the better. Either way, it can be scary.
Also, it makes for pretty good Science Fiction, which is a horribly scarce even for adult readers. Someone once told me that reading a favorite book is like hanging out with an old friend. I've never viewed books in that manner. To me they are more like the hole in to which Alice falls. I want the author to blow my mind with a world of language and ideas.
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We've watched the author on some Nova and such episodes on pbs.org. He knows how to keep attention. He likes to get speculative, though.
He's a string theory guy, so I'm not surprised. I was recently watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos on Netflix. There's a lot of speculation there.
I wonder if it's good to speculate so much. It may confuse people who don't know much about science.
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