Einstein's Dreams" is theoretical physicist's Alan Lightman's first novel (1993). He has a dual faculty appointment at MIT in science and the humanities.

Lightman uses Einstein in dream sequences to focus on a myriad of human experiences that can be viewed through his  theories on time/space continuum. The "Great Clock" ticks for us all. His various vignettes drift back and forth between "Are we slaves to the Clock", or "Do we ignore the Clock at our own risk." 

The general rhetorical tone of Lightman's discourse is we plod through life's experiences all of which take place in space and time with a variety of outcomes over which our control is questionable. At the end, it appears that Lightman, like Einstein, "feels empty."

(Gulfport Library also has "Good Benito" (1994) and "Mr g" (2012).

By a Gulfport patron.