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The Accidental Time Machine (Paperback)

by Joe Haldeman (Author)
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Starred Review. Hugo-winner Haldeman's skillful writing makes this unusually thoughtful and picaresque tale shine. Matt Fuller, a likable underachiever stuck as a lab assistant at a near-future MIT, is startled when the calibrator he built begins disappearing and reappearing, jumping forward in time for progressively longer intervals. Curiosity and some unfortunate accidents send Matt through a series of vividly described, wryly imagined futures where he gradually becomes more adaptable and resourceful as experiences hone his character. The young woman he rescues from a techno-religious dictatorship gives him a chance at a mature relationship, while teaming up with an AI that intends to press on to the end of time forces him to decide what he wants from life. Rather than being a riff on H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, this novel is closer in tone to Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, another charming yarn about a young man who's forced out of a boring rut. Producing prose that feels this effortless must be hard work, but Haldeman (Camouflage) never breaks a sweat. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Since H. G. Wells' heyday, the time travel scenario has undergone so much variation that it's easy to envision the river of ideas finally running dry. But here the ever-inventive Haldeman offers a new twist: a device that travels in one direction only, to the future. Lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller toils away in a physics lab until one day he makes an odd discovery. A sensitive quantum calibrator keeps disappearing and reappearing moments later when he hits the reset button. With a little tinkering, Matt realizes that the device functions as a crude, forward-traveling time machine. With visions of Nobel Prizes dancing in his head, he latches it to a car and leaps into the future. The interesting wrinkle here is that each jump ahead is 12 times longer than the last. Matt's successive futures involve jail time, unwelcome celebrity, and assorted holocausts in the earth's climate. He begins to long for his native era. As usual, Haldeman's ingenuity delivers cutting-edge technological speculation and irresistibly compelling reading. Hays, Carl --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly enjoyable light sci-fi, Nov 9 2008
It took only a couple days to read. That's my biggest gripe about this book. It's more of a short story. However, that being said, it was a great short story!! It was a lot of fun, the title character makes (as the title of the book would imply) an accidental time machine. And the story goes from there...I'm not going to give away any of the plot, you'll have to read the book yourself for that!

Suffice it to say, this is a fun book to read. Don't look for deep dark heavy sci-fi here, just entertainment. Good entertainment.

If you like books based on time paradoxes, time travel, or alternate history (or future??), you'll enjoy this.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars entertaining, Sep 6 2008
By bluedog (montreal canada) - See all my reviews
Slightly reminiscent of The Time Machine, this is an enjoyable read. It's fast paced and entertaining. Not a masterpiece of sci-fi but most SF novels aren't either.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Isn't this "Dear Abbey" by Terry Bison?, Aug 13 2008
By Adam Gertzbein (Toronto, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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the synopsis seems a little familiar. Anyone every read "Dear Abbey" by Terry Bison?

I think i'm still going to purchase, juuuuuust to see if it can delivery the same emotional punch as Terry's short novel.
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