I recently read Time Travel: A History by James Gleick, 2016 which was an exploration of the fiction and the science of time travel in human history. He especially concentrated on the storytellers and physicists of the last century.
Overall I found the book very interesting where he used philosophy, science, literature, religion and cultural anthropology to explore the concept of time travel. There were some periods in the book when he maybe spent too much time on the history of time capsules, what religions thought of eternity and such. I would rather had him spend more time analyzing time travel in books and movies instead of being so abstract.
Some of my favorite books, movies and television shows over the years have been about time travel or had some related theme involved. A few of the earliest books I've read about time travel include:
- The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
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