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From the acclaimed writer of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its advancement in books and science, and its own influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick's storyline starts at the change of the 20th century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the great tale that became his first reserve, an international experience: The Time Machine. A bunch of forces were converging to transmute the individuals understanding of time, some philosophical and some scientific - the electric telegraph, the vapor railroad, the breakthrough of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as a concept 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 change that is unsettling our own instant: the instantaneous wired world, using its all-consuming present and vanishing future.
