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So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Traveler's Guide to Time Travel
by
Phil Hornshaw (Goodreads Author),
Nick Hurwitch (Goodreads Author)
Welcome, intrepid temporal explorers, to the world's first and only field manual/survival guide to time travel!
DON'T LEAVE THIS TIME PERIOD WITHOUT IT!
Humans from H. G. Wells to Albert Einstein to Bill & Ted have been fascinated by time travel-some say drawn to it like moths to a flame. But in order to travel safely and effectively, newbie travelers need to know the do...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
April 3rd 2012
by Berkley Trade
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I liked this book. There's a great thread of humour throughout and I found myself cheering whenever there were (many) geeky references. I like that it treated all instances of time travel in film and literature as true as well as the future that it sketched out in a rather alarming amount of detail!
But at the same time, while I did enjoy this book, there were times when it was just too much. The last 100 pages seemed to stretch longer than I anticipated and I almost found myself just wanting it...more
But at the same time, while I did enjoy this book, there were times when it was just too much. The last 100 pages seemed to stretch longer than I anticipated and I almost found myself just wanting it...more
Very fun read. Part science manual, part survival guide, and all tongue in cheek humor. It's also littered with enough pop culture references to make any time travel geek squee in delight. I highly recommend it.
I wanted to like this book. I really wanted to like it and I wish I did. It was funny and humorous and everything its authors probably wanted it to be. But it was funny in a silly and mundane way, not in a with reading to remember way. I think there were too many pop culture references in it. It was "let's name drop every single time travel reference in pop movies and TV and the reader will love it".
It just didn't work for me. Wish it had.
On the plus side it was a very quick read. I read a few p...more
It just didn't work for me. Wish it had.
On the plus side it was a very quick read. I read a few p...more
Fun, funny, full of humorous illustrations and rife with pop culture references. I'll be sure to pack it with my towel for my next temporal excursion.
This is a wonderful unselfconscious look at the science of time travel and other things that might be useful when time traveling, like, oh say, history, and how to build a battery out of dinosaur poop. Obviously, this book is meant to be humorous and silly, but there are a few little gems about understanding some physics concepts like Special and General Relativity, the concept of Quantum Foam and of course wormholes. That being said, if you want to really learn about these things pick up a text
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This is satirical guide to time travel, and while the first parts of it were quite funny, the second half flopped down into repetition and lame humor.
The first parts included some theories on time travel, mixing farce with science and movies. It also gave us descriptions of the various kinds of time machines, the perils of the various flavors of paradox, and some ideas of what to do if you ever run into yourself or break your time machine.
The second half of the book, however, is a repetitive sur...more
The first parts included some theories on time travel, mixing farce with science and movies. It also gave us descriptions of the various kinds of time machines, the perils of the various flavors of paradox, and some ideas of what to do if you ever run into yourself or break your time machine.
The second half of the book, however, is a repetitive sur...more
Lots of fun. Really "enjoyed" robotapocylpse.
Time travel is dangerous business, rife with opportunities to get eaten by a dinosaur, catch an alien STD, or destroy the universe with a paradox. Thus, a handbook such as this, covering methods of time travel, time machine options, and quick tips for surviving in various epochs of Earth’s history, ought to be very useful. However, it falls flat. The snarky humor and pop culture references just do not coalesce into an entertaining whole, possibly because of the endless footnotes interrupting the...more
I'm a big science fiction fan, so I was looking forward to this read. I was surprised to find it was just a continous stream of humorous pop culture references to time travel, with a little science thrown in. I found myself chuckling a few times, but most of the jokes seemed like things I had heard before, or could of made up myself, so I wasn't that impressed. Dinosaur riding? Really? It was a quick kinda fun read, but not something likely to linger long in my memory. Keep in mind two stars mea...more
This book started out with some great laughs until I realized how much stupider I was getting by reading it. The humor devolved from quirky to irreverent to offensive, so I didn't make it all the way through to the end. Skip this one at all costs.
3.5 stars.
This book is HILARIOUS.
Buuuut I only read about two-thirds of it. I got really bored in the [survival guides sorted by chronological era] part.
But yeah, the rest? READ IT! It's awesome.
This book is HILARIOUS.
Buuuut I only read about two-thirds of it. I got really bored in the [survival guides sorted by chronological era] part.
But yeah, the rest? READ IT! It's awesome.
I had a hard time with this book. At times it wanted to be a pop culture reference to time travel, making references to Bill and Ted, H.G. Wells, Marty McFly, and The Doctor, but not enough to justify their inclusion. Other times, it wants to focus on the science, which often gets a bit heady and hard to follow. Most times, it wants to be funny, but I found most of the jokes falling flat. There are other books out there on this subject that are much better than this one.
I can't give the book five stars, because I simply have not encountered the perfect book yet. It is, however, better than the four stars I gave it. Wonderfully funny, with loads of sci-fi references. Some of the funniest lines in the book are found in the footnotes at the bottoms of most pages.
That said, I don't think this is a book for everyone. People who are dorks/geeks/nerds (like myself) will enjoy this book the most. If you watch or read little to nothing that references time travel, you w...more
That said, I don't think this is a book for everyone. People who are dorks/geeks/nerds (like myself) will enjoy this book the most. If you watch or read little to nothing that references time travel, you w...more
Decent....
Pretty Humorous Time Travel Book.
Great for clowns, nerds and yours truly.
Pretty Humorous Time Travel Book.
Great for clowns, nerds and yours truly.
Time Travel: Created by Albert Einstein and Emmet Doc Brown
Hilarious and helpful -- I'll never create a paradox again!
The authors are not as funny as they think they are.
Helpful advice in case of time-travel misshaps.
good information with solid comedy
NOT funny and utterly derivative.
If you love time travel, humour and thick 'n' fast science fiction references, this is for you!
Awesome. That is all.
A quirky guide to time travel including how to build your own time machine, skills you need for different time periods like dragon fighting and knowing the symptoms of the black plague and what to do to avoid time paradoxes.
References several science fiction movie characters, tv shows and books related to time travel in any way. Speaks very reverently of Dr. Emmett Brown and his time traveling Delorian.
References several science fiction movie characters, tv shows and books related to time travel in any way. Speaks very reverently of Dr. Emmett Brown and his time traveling Delorian.
Thanks to Wayne and Mel for this one - great fun!
A very clever idea that would have made a great article but failed in book length, as only a joke drug out too long can do.
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I co-wrote it, so you can go ahead and ignore that rating. But I liked writing it, so that counts for something, I hope.
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Very humorous book! It's fun how they try to add some science into it in the first half with different theories and such and then in the second half, making a guide for each period of time.
May 23, 2013
Jess
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Chrono-displacement Molecular Reassembly Psychosis Specialist and Test Subject Hostage Negotiator Phil Hornshaw moonlights as a technology blogger when he hangs up his time travel goggles. A sometimes fanatical consumer of television and film as well as part-time payer of attention to Science, he has a known a fascination with time travel and its horrific effects on the human all his life. He curr...more
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