Summary: This book follows the life of Ranjit Subramanian from being a 16 year old college student to the parent of a teenager. And along the way he is a genius and has various experiences and people build incredible technology that we can't imagine existing in our everyday life. Oh, and there's aliens.
Comments: For the first part of the book, I was thinking my summary would be "Some guy wrestles with trying to prove Fermat's Last Theorem: a history. Oh, and there's aliens." It isn't until way later that the way the aliens fit into the story becomes clear. I think the compelling factor for this book isn't its action so much as its message/moral. It isn't the fastest paced, or at least it seemed that way at the beginning, but it definitely makes you think. And there's aliens. If the aliens are a little distracting in this summary, let me explain it by saying that at the end of each chapter, there's a segment on what one group or another of the aliens is up to at that point. Hence it's in keeping with the book itself to randomly refer to aliens. It's one of those books that has multiple disjointed plotlines that come together at some point. Except in this case, one of those plot lines seems almost like an afterthought.
