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Time Travel: A History
by James Gleick
From H.G. Wells to physics to Proust: how the idea of time travel arose and what it reveals about time. Literary and playful.
Read it if…
you want culture and physics of time together.
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Skip it if…
you want hard physics.
Try instead: A Short History of Nearly Everything →
Three things you will actually use
- Time travel is a modern idea.
- Fiction shapes physics.
- The present is all we have.
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Read the chapter on Wells.
Our verdict
Gleick on time travel.
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