A few notes on James Gleick’s time-travel book (in lieu of a review)

James Gleick is the most elegant of companions. His tours take you places you probably wouldn’t have thought were related, much as James Burke did in his television series Connections. In Time Travel, his most recent book, Gleick comes to grips with time, our scientific understanding of it, our view of history, and our cultural fascination with ways of moving through time, whether in memory or through science fiction. Guests on the itinerary includeH. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback, Isaac Asimo...