The title is a reference to Einstein's Theory of Relativity connecting to Kurt Gödel's Constructible universe, which is an analogy to science meeting philosophy.

In a post-transcendent Earth, intelligent anthropoids deal with genetic mutation from ancient radiation.

The beings emulate early human civilization and retell stories from "our ghosts called Man".

[3] Lobey, a herder from a small village, sets out on a quest to avenge the death of Friza.

[5] Algis Budrys, after noting that Delany "has about as little discipline as any writer who has tried his hand" at science fiction and that The Einstein Intersection was a book "whose structure and purpose on its own terms are not realized", declared that the author "simply operates on a plane which Robert Heinlein never dreamed of, nor John W. Campbell, nor – take a deep breath – Ted Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, nor anyone else we could have put forward as being a poet" before 1960 and "urgently recommended" the novel".