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Time Travel: A History

byJames Gleick

Science historian James Gleick traces time travel from a nineteenth-century literary invention into a central modern idea. Beginning with H. G. Wells, he follows the concept through physics, philosophy, novels, films, television, and popular culture, showing how it reshaped the way people imagine causality, memory, destiny, and history. Gleick explains the scientific questions without reducing the subject to technical theory, attending equally to paradoxes and storytelling. The book ultimately reveals time travel as a mirror of modern consciousness: a way of thinking about regret, possibility, and humanity's changing relationship with time itself.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780007544448