A review by ac_church
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick

3.0

Don't know what I expected really, but mostly it's a lot of physics and philosophy talk that went over my head and summaries of key time travel stories with a bit of additional commentary. I enjoyed Gleicks snappy ironic style, and a couple of first chapters, especially H.G. Wells' profile, but the middle of the book with long summaries of physics and philosophy debates of yore completely lost me. I'm drawn to sci-fi much more by the social commentary and the stories, not the hard science, and the moral, psychological, and existential implications of time travel are more interesting to me than endless and frankly pointless theories on what time is or how it works. Good book, but not for me.