TIME TRAVEL

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolu tion in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twen tieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensa tion, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some t echnolog...[Read more]