Time Travel James Gleick by James Gleick instant download after payment.

**From the acclaimed author of *The Information* and *Chaos* , here is 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.**The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: *The Time Machine*. It was an era when 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. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea that becomes part of contemporary culture--from Marcel Proust to *Doctor Who* , from Jorge Luis Borges to Woody Allen. He investigates the inevitable looping paradoxes and...