Though published in 1979, and written by a fairly intelligent non-physicist, I'm assuming it is still a good layman's introduction to the tectonic shift in physics that the 20th century witnessed through the great minds of Plank, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg. I'm not qualified to weigh in on whether such a book remains a good introduction to the then 'new physics' in 2016, but I can certainly say I enjoyed it and appreciate the care taken to explain the headiness of the theories of special and general relativity, quantum uncertainty, and Bell's theorem.

Having said that, Zukav could have done away with the unnecessary parentheticals every time he (un)intentionally puns (please!), or makes use of his initially dimwitted debate partner 'Jim de Wit', who inexplicably becomes better versed in the new physics throughout the book. And at some points the repetition in his explanations could have benefited from a simple mutatis mutandis.

If the reader had wished for a better balance with the assumed thesis (though explicitly denied by Zukav early on), that the new physics just is what Buddhists and Taoists have known all along, you will be disappointed. Though he does occasionally drop such 'truths' that there really is a link between the 'Eastern religions' and the increasingly mystifying discoveries and theorizations within the new physics, he does not offer enough textual support from the Eastern religions to maintain such a thesis - which, again, despite the odd reference to koans here and there, is not Zukav's aim in this book.

So, take it with a grain of salt - written by a mostly spiritual author, inspired on a trip to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California (Google it - you'll get the picture), The Dancing Wu Li Masters is itself a trip in sobered-up post-hippism that finds the "far out, man" in the truly far out, and far in, of quantum mechanics and particle physics.