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TIME TRAVEL
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of the time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the previous century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technologicalthe electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the dis- covery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks.
Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culturefrom Marcel Proust to Doc- tor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He delves into the inevitable looping para- doxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.
James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and modern technology. His first book, Chaos, a National Book Award finalist, has been translated into twenty-five languages, and his best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, were short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently, he is the author of The Information which was a New York Times bestseller.
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Published 2016-10-01 by Pantheon |