Time Travel: A History
Last updated October 31, 2026
By James Gleick
James Gleick traces the idea of time travel from H. G. Wells's novel The Time Machine to modern science fiction, physics and philosophy. He treats the idea itself as his subject. He shows how time travel took hold of the modern imagination through stories, films and scientific debate, and what our fascination with it reveals about how we think about time, memory, causality and the possibility of changing the past.
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