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 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.
A quick and enjoyable read, but it didn't get really good until the last 50 or so pages... and that's too late in a 260p book. The beginning was good as well, but much of the middle part seemed too much like the only Asimov book I've ever read (can't remember the title, but involved time travel via ...
I love Joe Haldeman. His books are very readable, interesting, and move forward at a reasonable speed. The ideas are interesting and thought-provoking, his characters realistic, fallible, but likable anyway. This book is no exception. I liked the main character, understood his motivations, and the p...
This is an elegant little novel that adopts an idea that Poul Anderson also developed in "Flight to Forever". Matt Fuller, a research assistant in 21st century MIT, finds a machine that can jump ahead to the future. Using it begins an adventure in which he witnesses the continual development of huma...
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