3.8
Tietokirjallisuus
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.
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 civilisations, 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.
© 2016 Fourth Estate (Äänikirja): 9780008181864
Julkaisupäivä
Äänikirja: 27. syyskuuta 2016
Avainsanat
3.8
Tietokirjallisuus
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.
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 civilisations, 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.
© 2016 Fourth Estate (Äänikirja): 9780008181864
Julkaisupäivä
Äänikirja: 27. syyskuuta 2016
Avainsanat
Astu tarinoiden maailmaan
Arviot perustuu 93 arvioon
Ajatuksia herättävä
Informatiivinen
Viisas
Lataa sovellus niin voit osallistua keskusteluun ja kirjoittaa oman arviosi.
Arviot 1/93
JM
6. maalisk. 2022
An interesting project, but difficult to follow. The voice actor's intonation mismatches the text's message, adding confusion. The audio should be carefully prepared, analyzing the structure of the text, and recorded again... this time by someone who can pronounce the quotes in French, German and Spanish as well (or additional actors).
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