Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2022-12-22
Books mentioned on Time Travel For Real This Time with Brian Greene & Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a famous 1843 novella about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his midnight visitations by ghostly specters that transform his life.
Discussed“and today we're going to be talking about time travel inspired by Dickens classic novel A Christmas Carol”
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine by H.
Discussed“and so that's well before like a half a century before H.G Wells is the time machine so itself quite a quite a remarkable step to take in storytelling”
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is a semi-autobiographical anti-war novel that follows Billy Pilgrim as he becomes unstuck in time amidst the devastating allied firebombing of Dresden.
Discussed“so in in in Kurt vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five uh that time travel scenario is what you're describing right and because in it his entire time he's picked up by aliens and he lives in a in a cage all right an alien Zoo”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Until the End of Time
“and uh it's just a delight with best-selling books and let me get the title correct of his latest book because that that this title leaves nothing out here it is Until the End of Time mind matter and our search for meaning in an evolving Universe came out last year”
Passing A Tale of Two Cities
“so uh Charles Dickens which is you know he wrote Oliver he wrote A Tale of Two Cities he wrote a Christmas I mean he wrote a bunch of stuff and I think he wrote A Tale of Two Cities”
Passing Oliver Twist
“so uh Charles Dickens which is you know he wrote Oliver he wrote A Tale of Two Cities”
Plugged Until the End of Time
“Cosmic query's time travel Edition with none other than Brian Greene whose most recent book is I gotta like read this title because it's so inclusive Until the End of Time mind matter and our search for meaning in an evolving universe and you just confessed that you put every Google search a keyword in there”