Drafted Into the Army of Time The USA&s greatest adversary has gone back in time & discovered a source of advanced technology We have only one chance send American agents back in time find the ancient source & take it down! ...

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of The Information & Chaos a mind-bending exploration of time travel its subversive origins its evolution in literature & science & its influence on our understanding of time itself Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H G Wells writing & rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book an international sensation The Time Machine A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time some philosophical & some technological
- the electric telegraph the steam railroad the discovery of buried civilisations & the perfection of clocks Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture
- from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes & examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction & modern physics Finally he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment the instantaneous wired world with its all-consuming present & vanishing future

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From the Jurassic period & the dark ages to feudal Japan or the Victorian era
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Produced in partnership with The Portico Library Manchester this unusual book has four different time travel adventures featuring early Portico founder members These stories are written by four different authors & each are followed by winning entries from The Portico Library Sadie Masey 2017 book review competition for school children Consequently book reviews are a theme that threads through this thirteenth story in the Time Traveller series However page-turning suspense & the intrigue for each individual story is provided by the protagonist for the whole series Danny Higgins At the age of seventeen Danny is too old to carry out time travel missions for the mysterious organisation from the future called SHARP for whom he has been working in secret for the last five years Danny recruits & organises the young time travellers who in turn go back in time to meet John Dalton the scientist who chemically proved the existence of atoms Robert Peel a British prime minister & founder of the police force Elizabeth Gaskell writer & Peter Mark Roget who compiled the Thesaurus Danny knows that these missions all have a deadly serious purpose but he does not know why the Crystal Dome in the Portico building might hold the key to averting the impending chaos facing mankind ...

For readers who loved Wonder & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time this extraordinary debut will make you laugh & cry A story that crosses time & generations for adventure-loving readers young & old My dad died twice Once when he was thirty nine & again four years later when he was twelve On Al Chaudhury's twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al's late father In it Al receives a mission travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine & save his father's life Al soon discovers that time travel requires daring & imagination It also requires lies theft setting his school on fire & ignoring philosophical advice from Grandpa Byron All without losing his pet hamster Alan Shearer Time Travelling With a Hamster is a funny heart-warming race-against-time
- & across generations
- adventure that you will won't be able to put down

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