The Accidental Time Machine

The Accidental Time Machine
by Joe Haldeman

The Accidental Time Machine
List Price: $23.95
Our Price: $12.68
You Save: $11.27 (47%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $7.94 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Author: Joe Haldeman
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-08-07
ISBN: 0441014992
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Ace Hardcover

Book Reviews of The Accidental Time Machine

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.

Contemporary Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Sign of the Times!
A Wrinkle in Time ImageA Wrinkle in Time
Release date: 2004-11-16; DVD
Best price: $13.70
Price in other shops: $24.99
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 3) ImageHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 3)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2004-11-23; DVD
Best price: $4.06
Price in other shops: $19.98
Premonition (Widescreen Edition) ImagePremonition (Widescreen Edition)
Sony; Release date: 2007-07-17; DVD
Best price: $5.81
Price in other shops: $19.94
Deja Vu ImageDeja Vu
Buena Vista Home Video; Release date: 2007-04-24; DVD
Best price: $9.98
Price in other shops: $24.99
Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition) ImageBack to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 2005-01-25; DVD
Best price: $16.99
Price in other shops: $27.98
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Books of Wonder) ImageA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Books of Wonder)
by Mark Twain, Trina Schart Hyman
Published: 1988-11-21; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $24.34
Price in other shops: $24.99
Quantum Leap - The Complete First Season ImageQuantum Leap - The Complete First Season
Release date: 2004-06-08; DVD
Best price: $26.48
Price in other shops: $39.98
The Time Garden ImageThe Time Garden
by Edward Eager
Odyssey Classics; Published: 1999-03-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.93
Price in other shops: $6.99
The Time Bike (Hall Family Chronicles) ImageThe Time Bike (Hall Family Chronicles)
by Jane Langton
Published: 2000-05-31; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.39
Price in other shops: $15.95
Kindred (Bluestreak  Black Women Writers) ImageKindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers)
by Octavia E. Butler
Beacon Press; Published: 2004-02-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.71
Price in other shops: $14.00
Similar Books and other products
Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) ImageDauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1)
by Jack Campbell
Ace; Published: 2006-06-27; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.84
Price in other shops: $7.99
The Android's Dream ImageThe Android's Dream
by John Scalzi
Tor Science Fiction; Published: 2007-10-30; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.32
Price in other shops: $6.99
Old Man's War ImageOld Man's War
by John Scalzi
Tor Science Fiction; Published: 2007-01-15; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.27
Price in other shops: $6.99
The Ghost Brigades ImageThe Ghost Brigades
by John Scalzi
Tor Science Fiction; Published: 2007-05-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.79
Price in other shops: $7.99
Thirteen ImageThirteen
by Richard K. Morgan
Del Rey; Published: 2008-06-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.12
Price in other shops: $15.00
Spook Country ImageSpook Country
by William Gibson
Berkley Trade; Published: 2008-06-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.81
Price in other shops: $15.00
Axis ImageAxis
by Robert Charles Wilson
Tor Science Fiction; Published: 2008-06-03; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.41
Price in other shops: $7.99
Halting State (Ace Science Fiction) ImageHalting State (Ace Science Fiction)
by Charles Stross
Ace; Published: 2008-06-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.01
Price in other shops: $7.99
The Last Colony ImageThe Last Colony
by John Scalzi
Tor Books; Published: 2007-04-17; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.67
Price in other shops: $23.95
Fleet of Worlds ImageFleet of Worlds
by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
Tor Books; Published: 2007-10-16; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.75
Price in other shops: $24.95
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories