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Time travel : a history / James Gleick.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307908797
- ISBN: 0307908798
- Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2016]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index. |
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| Subject: | Space and time > Popular works. Time travel > Popular works. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Pottsville District Libraries. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Pottsville Free Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pottsville Free Public Library | 530.11 G481 (Text) | 30003008809020 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
