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Time Travel: A History - Softcover

Gleick, James

 
9780007544455: Time Travel: A History
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0007544456 ISBN 13: 9780007544455
Verlag: Fourth Estate, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

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 civilisations, 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.

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Verlag
Fourth Estate
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0007544456
ISBN 13 
9780007544455
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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