by James Gleick · HARPER COLLINS · tapa dura · ISBN 9780007544431
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«Time Travel» is James Gleick's essay on historical and scientific popularization, published by Harper Collins in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
James Gleick traces the cultural history of time travel, from H. G. Wells's The Time Machine to modern physics. He shows how literature and popular culture, from Proust to Doctor Who or from Borges to Woody Allen, have dealt with temporal paradoxes, and how the digital age transforms our perception of time.
The full title is Time Travel: A History. It was a finalist for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award in the Science and Technology category.
Aimed at readers interested in the history of ideas, scientific popularization, and the intersection between science fiction and popular culture.
James Gleick is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time". He is part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park character Ian Malcolm.
