| Prologue: Delegates to Eternity | 1 |
| I: THE MAN IN THE CAGE | |
| 1. His Master's Voice | 11 |
| 2. The Candy Machine | 30 |
| 3. The War of the World Models | 44 |
| 4. Bonfires on the Shores of Time | 67 |
| 5. God's Turnstile | 85 |
| 6. The King of Black Holes | 104 |
| 7. The Big Bang | 126 |
| 8. The Galaxy Makers | 140 |
| II: FERMILAND | |
| 9. The Long March | 161 |
| 10. The Endless Good-Bye | 174 |
| 11. Fermiland | 190 |
| 12. The Triumph of Beauty | 216 |
| 13. The Reluctant Cosmologist | 231 |
| 14. The Free Lunch | 249 |
| III: THE SHADOW UNIVERSE | |
| 15. The Hubble Wars | 263 |
| 16. The Z-Machine | 285 |
| 17. Springtime for Neutrinos | 301 |
| 18. ZwickyZs Revenge | 322 |
| 19. The Astrologer's Curse | 338 |
| 20. Dreamtime | 359 |
| IV: THE LAST GENTLEMAN | |
| 21. Sandage in Exile | 385 |
| 22. The Day the Universe Stopped Expanding | 400 |
| 23. The Other Side | 417 |
| Epilogue | 426 |
| Index | 431 |