Time Travel: A History - James Gleick Audiobook
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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.
Gleick’s story begins at the turn of the twentieth 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 technological the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks.
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. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes 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.
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
October 7th, 2023
This is a delightful history of time travel as a cultural trope, and like all of James Gleick’s books has a pervasive wry humour which is almost worth the price of admission on its own.
One thing I didn’t notice until I read this is how H G Wells actually changed the way we think about traveling through time, and this arguably has a knock-on effect with the distinction between Past and Future being subtly different after 1895 (though I suppose that change might have been in the air with the concept of Deep Time being developed by James Hutton and Charles Lyell).
Anyway: an absolute bonbon of a book which can also take you out into some serious science if you have the nerve.
Good one hdgdf.
October 7th, 2023
thank you, poster!!
Gleick’s book on R Feynman is Genius!
October 18th, 2023
@biscuit1: Groan!
November 26th, 2023
Thanks again, even though I already thanked you next year
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