A riveting history of an idea that changed us so profoundly, we forgot we had even been changed. Time Travel, like so much of his work, is simply indispensable.' - Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Synthesis leads to elucidation leads to stunning, original insight. 'James Gleick is a master historian of ideas - no one else can do what he does. In these pages, time flies.' - John Banville Wells's time machine for an invigorating ride through the most baffling of the four dimensions.

'In his enthralling new book, James Gleick mounts H.G. 'Accessible to the casually curious yet rich enough for bookworms craving conundrums to contemplate, this title is worth the trip.' - Library Journal 'Though not his best book, this is another fantastic contribution to popular science from Gleick, whose lush storytelling will appeal to a wide range of audiences.' - Kirkus (Or it doesn't, if you're Plato.)' - Gleick's journey through the fourth dimension is a marvelous mind bender.' - Publishers Weekly 'A dazzling voyage through the concept of time⁝eeply philosophical and full of quirky humor - 'The universe is like a river. (With a color frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

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. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture - from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.

Time travel a history by james gleick