![]() ![]() ![]() Exasperations aside, Time Travel reminds us that our relationship with the slippery concept of time is far from static. Parts of the book are frustratingly repetitive, while his practice of paraphrasing obscure time travel stories before analysing their finer points too often feels like the dinner party anecdote that rather feebly concludes Well, you had to be there really. At times, Gleick seems to get lost in his own, sometimes opaque, musings. Much of this is well trodden ground, our enduring fascination with the notion sown long ago by many adroit hands. ![]() Time Travel is intoxicating, but that is only in part down to Gleick’s execution. In probing the role of imagination and memory, Gleick also gives space to the concept of mental time travel, the phenomenon which allows us to immerse ourselves in our past and muse upon what the future might hold. The consummate temporal tour guide, Gleick deftly navigates the twists and turns of our fascination with time travel, investigating its evolution in literature, exploring scientific principles that have hinted at or scotched the idea, and teasing apart the curious spell it cast across society with its suggestion of immortality. ![]()
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