James Gleick - Time Travel

Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield, The Discovery of Time, 1965.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, 2014.

David Foster Wallace, Fate, Time, and Language, 2010.

Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, and David Leiby, eds., Worlds Enough and Time, 2002.

David Wittenberg, Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative, 2013.

Illustration Credits

Credit 1.1: From The Dublin Review , January–June 1920, vol. 166. Courtesy of Stanford University Library.

Credit 1.2: Courtesy of the New York Public Library.

Credit 2.1: Still image from episode 41 of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends , copyright © 2004 by DreamWorks Animation LLC. Used by permission.

Credit 2.2: From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889.

Credit 2.3: From Wikimedia Commons.

Credit 3.1: Still image from Felix the Cat Trifles with Time , copyright © DreamWorks Animation LLC. Used by permission.

Credit 3.2: From Science and Invention in Pictures , July 1925.

Credit 5.1: Courtesy of the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Archives and the Heinlein Prize Trust.

Credit 9.1: From The Story of the Westinghouse Time Capsule . East Pittsburgh, Penn.: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1938.

Credit 9.2 : From The Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy, New York World’s Fair, 1939. New York: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1938.

Credit 9.3: From The Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy, New York World’s Fair, 1939. New York: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1938.

Credit 10.1: From E. Nesbit: A Biography by Doris Langley Moore. Philadelphia: Chilton Company, 1966.

Credit 11.1: Still image from La Jetée by Chris Marker, copyright © 1963 Argos Films.

Credit 13.1: From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, Chapter XXXVIII.

Credit 14.1: Courtesy of South West News Service Ltd.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JAMES GLEICK (www.around.com) was born in New York City in 1954. He graduated from Harvard College and worked at the New York Times for ten years as a reporter and editor. His six previous books include Chaos (1987) and The Information (2011), as well as biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman. They have been translated into thirty languages.

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