This short novella is a beautifully wrought miniature of Nikola Tesla. It begins with his birth, ends with his death, and roughly covers everything major in between -- although oddly fictionalizes the name of the main character calling him "Gregor", even though the other characters have their real names (e.g., Edison and Westinghouse) and it has an almost non fiction level of accuracy in depicting Tesla's life.

The narrative conveys both the wonder of invention and Tesla's madness, as well as the reasons that he is increasingly unable to translate his ideas into tangible output. This is all told in a series of very short chapters, many of them vignettes, but ones that add up together to something approaching a novel -- if not in length.

Although not nearly as interesting and creative as Samantha Hunt's Tesla novel (The Invention of Everything Else), it is thought-provoking and a comprehensive depiction of Tesla's life and contributions.