02240cam a2200337 i 4500 1164600595 TxAuBib 20170809120000.0 160303s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016002323 9780307908797 hardcover; alk. paper 0307908798 hardcover; alk. paper (OCoLC)935983379 DLC eng rda DLC YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCF WYZ VTL BUR ABG IHX OU9 TxAuBib rda Gleick, James, author. Time travel : a history / James Gleick. First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2016] ©2016. 336 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-322) and index. Machine -- Fin de siècle -- Philosophers and pulps -- Ancient lights -- 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. 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. 20170809. Space and time Popular works. Time travel Popular works. TXKIP