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and entering the to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 241 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is James Glick. He's a best-selling science writer whose books include Chaos, Making a New Science, Genius, The Life and Science of Richard Feinman, and The Information, A History, A Theory of Flood.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new book, Time Travel A History.

And if you like Time Travel, I hope you'll check out my short stories, The Second Rat,

about a man who can rewind time and

power armor a love story about an inventor from the future who never takes off as

invincible armor and you can read both of those stories for free on my website

over at David Bar curley.

And today's show is brought to you by all our wrong today's, the debut novel from

Elon Masti, whose previous work includes the screenplays for What If, starring Daniel Radcliffe and the Samaritan starring Samuel L Jackson.

And here's a description of the book. It says,

You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened.

In Tom Barron's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks and moonbases,

where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed

because it wasn't necessary.

Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling idealistic world, and that's

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