This Book is From the Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes, and Other Adventures in Time Travel

by Marie D. Jones, Larry Flaxman

"From pop culture fantasies to wild conspiracy theories to the latest scientific thinking, This Book Is From the Future is a fascinating exploration of our collective obsession with time. Jones and Flaxman cover the subject from just about every angle, with a dash of humor and the serious scientific curiosity it deserves."
--Stephen Wagner, About.com Paranormal Guide
"It is a very engaging read about how time travel has captured our imaginations and how today's scientists are taking the subject very seriously. Written in a friendly newsy way...You will find a number of surprising discoveries awaiting you."
--Fred Alan Wolf, PhD, aka Dr. Quantum, author of Time Loops and Space Twists and The Yoga of Time Travel
The idea of time travel has tantalized humans for millennia. We can send humans into space, but roaming through time has eluded us. Do the laws of physics demand that we stay forever trapped in the present?
This Book Is From the Future will explore:
Time travel theories and machines of the past, present, and future.
Time and the multiverse: why wormholes, parallel universes, and extra dimensions might allow for time travel.
The paranormal aspects of time: Might we already be "mentally" time traveling?
Mysterious time shifts, slips, and warps that people are reporting all over the world. Are we experiencing coexisting timelines?
Time travel conspiracy theories: Are we already walking among real time travelers? Has a real time machine already been created in a top-secret
government facility?

Genres: Nonfiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Science

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Best selling author, screenwriter, and producer. Marie has written over 30 non-fiction books, novels, and novellas, and contributed to over 100 anthologies. She is a produced screenwriter and indie filmmaker. She has been on radio all over the world, and on television's History Channel, including "Ancient Aliens." She has spoken at major events and writes frequently for a number of magazines on the paranormal, metaphysics, cutting edge science and Noetics. She is currently focusing on fiction and screenwriting and just re-released a middle grade novel based on her son's true story, BULLIES BEWARE, EKHO IS HERE! as well as a horror novel with Denise A. Agnew, THE DIM, and a paranormal thriller, FREAK. She will be releasing several more novels for adults and kids over the next few years. She has written and edited books for several publishers and ghostwrites, too. She also has a line of fun and funky journals on Amazon.com called ATTITUDENALS and her own ETSY shop of the same name.

Reviews

[Dimitri Paulyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ever start reading a book with great subject, promising exciting revelation on how the universe functions (or some other subject that might be fascinating you?)
Then a chapter into the book you begin to skip sentences.
Then you begin to skip paragraphs.
Then you begin to skip pages
Then you begin to skip chapters.

This is that kind of book.

Rather hackneyed, too scattered, with elements of mysticism and unproven 'facts'.

Now reading "the Cosmic Landscape". Totally engaging - no temptation whatsoever to skip sentences or paragraphs or . . .

She deserves two stars for the effort of writing a book (I haven't written a book yet).

[Matthew · Rating 1 out of 5]

For a book about time travel, it's got a great subject, but the book just never really gets going. It's sort of a list of movies and books that mention time travel, the occasional anecdote about purported time travel, an odd comment here and there from other writers and scientists about time travel and its possibilities, but none of the pieces seem to come together in a coherent whole.
If you want to learn more about time travel I would suggest sticking with Michio Kaku books, Brian Greene lectures, or Sean Carrol's excellent course with The Great Courses, Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time.

[Baron Huang]

This book taught me a lot about space and time travel. One thing that occured a lot in this book is the authors mentioning movies that are related to time travel. I liked that because so I could actually watch those movies to gain more knowledge about time travel. This book is really good and easy to read. It is not composed of college level intense languages that I had read in some other books.

[Benjamin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very enjoyable book, the authors cover a wide spectrum of beliefs on the topic while leaving it up to the reader to decide what they think about the various theories.