| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
100000 |
| Description |
digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Note |
Title from web page. |
| Performer |
Read by Rob Shapiro. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H.G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological--the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture--from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. |
| Subject |
Space and time -- Popular works.
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Time travel -- Popular works.
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Space and time. (OCoLC)fst01127622
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Time travel. (OCoLC)fst01151176
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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| Added Author |
Shapiro, Rob, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9780735285903 |
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073528590X |
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9780735285880 |
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0735285888 |
| Standard No. |
9780735285880 |
| Music No. |
PRHA 5970 Penguin Random House Audio |
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