A lot of unlearning to do
Dec. 29th, 2017 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatsiBook Review: Time Travel - A History, by James Gleick
I picked this one up immediately in the work book sale, as I recognised the author and, obviously, thought the subject was interesting. However I have to say I've been a bit disappointed. This is not a bad book, but it didn't really live up to expectations. I knew from the blurb that it would mostly be about science fiction and culture, rather than science itself, but in fact there is very little science in it at all. I accept that really writing about the science of time travel would be hard, but it's patchy and in quite a few chapters I found I wasn't really paying attention. It is a useful overview, and perhaps provides a useful sourcebook for a bibliography of fact and fiction, but this probably won't be productive for anyone reasonably knowledgeable about the subject.
I picked this one up immediately in the work book sale, as I recognised the author and, obviously, thought the subject was interesting. However I have to say I've been a bit disappointed. This is not a bad book, but it didn't really live up to expectations. I knew from the blurb that it would mostly be about science fiction and culture, rather than science itself, but in fact there is very little science in it at all. I accept that really writing about the science of time travel would be hard, but it's patchy and in quite a few chapters I found I wasn't really paying attention. It is a useful overview, and perhaps provides a useful sourcebook for a bibliography of fact and fiction, but this probably won't be productive for anyone reasonably knowledgeable about the subject.