Time travel : a history
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307908797
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Physical Description:
print
regular print
336 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine -- Fin de siècle -- Philosophers and pulps -- Ancient light -- By your bootstraps -- Arrow of time -- A river, a path, a maze -- Eternity -- Buried time -- Backward -- The paradoxes -- What is time? -- Our only boat -- Presently. |
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Subject: | Space and time Time travel |
Available copies
- 9 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 10 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | 530.11 GLE (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100011934 | Adult Non-Fiction | Not holdable | Lost | 2019-12-31 |
Summary:
"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."--