The Accidental Time Machine
by:
Joe Haldeman (author)
NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUNDGrad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip...
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NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUNDGrad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself?or so he thinks.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780441016167 (0441016162)
Publish date: July 29th 2008
Publisher: Ace Books
Pages no: 275
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Travel,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Speculative Fiction,
Time Travel
TITLE: The Accidental Time Machine AUTHOR: Joe Haldeman ___________________________ DESCRIPTION: "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 o...
**Review may contain some minor spoilers**'The Accidental Time Machine' came at a right time in my life. No, I am not having any “pre” mid-life crisis (not yet, at least); it’s just that that for the past dozen or so days, I was experiencing some serious reading withdrawal. I would pick up a book th...
This is the first Haldeman novel that I've read and I am hooked. Great story by a great author.
This just borrowed too much from previous writings for me. It's simular to H.G. Wells The Time Machine and the plot is also akin to the author's best work The Forever War. Beware, spoilers ahead....there are a few nice twists here. The user can go only forward, in increasing amounts of years and he ...
Started out fantastic. But devolved into a jumbled mess which clearly intended solely to mock religion, destroyed the pace, and really made little sense. The promise of the setup just wasn't fulfilled. A disappointment.