I am in the middle of reviewing Huw Price's book *Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time*, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 306, now out in paperback from OUP. It has been widely reviewed in specialist journals, often favorably. Prof. Price's collection of notices and urls is
http://www.arts.su.edu.au/Arts/departs/philos/price/TAAPreviews.html and a useful summary by Price of the book's ideas and his response to selected critics is http://plato.stanford.edu/price/preprints/metascience_reply.html His approach is causal perspectivalism, a relentlessly atemporal account of an Einsteinian block universe. His results are profoundly counterintuitive (I keep wanting to scream and dash the book to the floor), but offer an interesting `classical' reading of certain QT paradoxa (nonlocality, e.g.). While I still haven't even read through his QT chapters, it is apparent that there's some similarity with John Cramer's transactional model - but Price finds Cramer as obtuse as the rest in falling for an illusion of preferred temporal direction. I think it might be worth some attention. Damien Broderick
