James Gleick - On Chaos, Feynman, and Time Travel (8 books)

JAMES GLEICK (b. 1954) is a leading American science journalist, historian, and biographer whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time." His writing style has been described as a combination of "clear mind, magpie-styled research and explanatory verve."

Three of his books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists. These include his first international bestseller, CHAOS: MAKING A NEW SCIENCE (1987), which reported the development of the new science of chaos and complexity, and became an international bestseller. It made the Butterfly Effect a household term, introduced the Mandelbrot Set and fractal geometry to a broad audience, and sparked popular interest in the subject.

His next books included two biographies, GENIUS: THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF RICHARD FEYNMAN (1992), and ISAAC NEWTON (2003), which John Banville said would "surely stand as the definitive study for a very long time to come."

THE INFORMATION (2011) is a history of information theory, covering the genesis of the current information age. In his review of the book, Cory Doctorow wrote: "Gleick is one of the great science writers of all time, and that is, in part, because he is a science biographer. Not a biographer of scientists (although there is much biographical insight to scientists, mathematicians, lexicographers, writers and thinkers in 'The Information'), but a biographer of the idea itself, and the way that it ricochets off disciplines, institutions and people, knocking them into new, higher orbits, setting them on collision courses."

His most recent publication, TIME TRAVEL: A HISTORY (2016) examines the origin of the idea and of its usage in literature. Anthony Doerr described it in the New York Times as "a fascinating mash-up of philosophy, literary criticism, physics and cultural observation. It's witty ("Regret is the time traveler's energy bar"), pithy ("What is time? Things change, and time is how we keep track") and regularly manages to twist its reader's mind into those Gordian knots I so loved as a boy."


The following books are in ePUB format:

* "At the Beginning", in Seeing Further, ed. Bryson (HarperCollins, 2010)
* Chaos: Making a New Science (Open Road, 2008)
* Isaac Newton (Vintage, 2004)
* Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (Hachette, 2000)
* Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Open Road, 2011)
* Nature's Chaos (Hachette, 2001)
* The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood (Pantheon, 2011)
* Time Travel: A History (Vintage, 2017)

== UNCOLLECTED ARTICLES (in PDF) ==

* A Nonlinear History of Time Travel (Nautilus, Sept-Oct 2016)
* Drowning, Surfing and Surviving (New Scientist, 2 April 2011)
* Dynamical Systems Collective (Computers in Physics, March-April 1988)
* Eclipsed by Fame (NYRB, 29 April 2021)
* Looking for God's Footprints (Missouri Review, 1988)
* Matters of Tolerance (NYRB, 25 October 2018)
* Moon Fever (NYRB, 15 August 2019)
* Simulating Democracy (NYRB, 8 October 2020)
* Toll of the Clock (NYRB, 23 September 2021)
* When They Came From Another World (NYRB, 19 January 2017)


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