The Accidental Time Machine
by Joe Haldeman
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Author: Joe HaldemanEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-08-07
ISBN: 0441014992
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
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Book Review: Reasonably good
Summary: 3 Stars
The Accidental Time Machine is a reasonably good science fiction adventure that suffers at times from being a bit uninspired. Let me first say that I only dip my toes in the water of science fiction. I prefer to stay grounded in reality or something resembling reality in most of my reading.
As the title suggests, a student accidentally discovers time travel. However, he can only move forward and each time he does, he makes a bigger jump. At first, he simply experiments with the device, but after a jump of 6 days, he winds up in jail, and is forced by circumstances to make another jump to save himself.
The plot is every bit as good as advertised. It's fast paced and doesn't linger too long in one scene. However, the characters are a bit dull and lifeless. In a good book, the reader can put him or herself in the shoes of the characters and experience the story with them. I just found it was hard to relate to the people in this book. After a hopeful start, I merely found this average reading.
Summary of The Accidental Time Machine
Joe Haldeman "has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time" (Rocky Mountain News). Now he delivers a provocative novel of a man who stumbles upon the discovery of a lifetime-or many lifetimes.Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, his calibrator turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose taking a time machine trip himself-or so he thinks.
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