Time Travel: a History by James Gleick

Time travel is a far-fetched thought that has been interlaced in modern society through many avenues of fiction and pop culture. In James Gleick’s book it shows the early accounts of this science, and how it has advanced and evolved to an extent where it has prompted countless scientists to test its credibility in reality. This very phenomenon has led to a superior knowledge of time and space.

This novel starts with one of the first appearances of time travel in H. G. Wells novel The time machine, which sparked the conversation of combining time with technology to create a way to rediscover the past and peek into the future. We then follow the path by exploring Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Woody Allen and even Doctor Who! This exploration presents the thin line between modern physics and science fiction and its theoretical dire consequences of temporal shifts and vanishing futures.

Author: James Gleick
Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, 2016

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