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TIME TRAVEL ALSO BY JAMES GLEICK Chaos: Making a New Science Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier Isaac Newton The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood TIME TRAVEL A History JAMES GLEICK 4th ESTATE • London 4th Estate An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thestate.co.uk First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2016 First published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2016 135 79108642 Copyright © James Gleick 2016 James Gleick asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work Grateful acknowledgment is made to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company for permission to reprint excerpts from “Burnt Norton” and “The Dry Salvages” from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot, copyright © 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, renewed 1964 by T. S. Eliot, and renewed 1969 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Hardback ISBN 978-0-00-754443-1 Trade paperback ISBN 978-0-00-820767-0 Designed by Cassandra J. Pappas Printed and bound in Australia by Griffin Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out of otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Find out more about HarperCollins and the environment at www.harpercollins.co.uk/green To Beth, Donen, and Harry Your now is not my now; and again, your then is not my then; but my now may be your then, and vice versa. Whose head is competent to these things? —Charles Lamb (1817) The fact that we occupy an ever larger place in Time is some- thing that everybody feels. —Marcel Proust (1927?) And tomorrow Comes. It’s a world. It’s a way. —W. H. Auden (1936)
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