“Some writers excel at crafting a historical narrative, others at elucidating esoteric theories, still others at humanizing scientists. Gleick is a master of all these skills”
— The Wall Street Journal
“Gleick does what only the best science writers can do: take a subject of which most of us are only peripherally aware and put it at the center of the universe”
— Time
“Charts our distance-compressing, time-shifting telephonic adventure with exceptional brio and subtlety”
— Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
Year
2027
Type
Nonfiction
Praise
“Some writers excel at crafting a historical narrative, others at elucidating esoteric theories, still others at humanizing scientists. Gleick is a master of all these skills”
— The Wall Street Journal
“Gleick does what only the best science writers can do: take a subject of which most of us are only peripherally aware and put it at the center of the universe”
— Time
“Charts our distance-compressing, time-shifting telephonic adventure with exceptional brio and subtlety”
— Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
Description
What to read after The Telephone.
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