The Accidental Time Machine - Joe Haldeman

The Accidental Time Machine

By Joe Haldeman

  • Release Date: 2007-08-07
  • Genre: Science Fiction
4 Score: 4 (From 107 Ratings)

Description

From the acclaimed author of Marsbound comes a mind-bending sci-fi adventure that will have you questioning the very fabric of time itself

Struggling grad 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.

Reviews

  • Entertaining

    3
    By iPadRanger
    I enjoyed the read...a quick and easy one. It was entertaining, which is largely what I wanted. It wasn't quite as thought provoking or suspenseful as Asimov's The End of Eternity and didn't have the social commentary of Heinlein's For Us, the Living or the excitement of The Door into Summer. I gave it three stars because, while well written and enjoyable, I thought the main character's jumps through time and the resulting links to his past and possible paradoxes were handled a little too loosely, especially towards the end. There were interesting hints of social, political, economic, and technological developments in the future that were never explored. I thought his treatments of certain aspects of society/global development ... consumerism, religion, evolution, etc. were a little ham-fisted. Finally, I was disappointed with the ending. It felt as if the author was rushing to get it to publication and never closed the loops (pun intended) opened in the story (i.e. important characters and events introduced throughout but never explained.). The end of the book was far too much like the ending of an hour-long television mystery where they summarily explain the plot in the last two minutes and throw in a dash of happily ever after.

  • Can I give it eight stars?

    5
    By Tap Zoo Addict ;)
    Brilliant book! I absolutely loved it. It kept me thinking throughout the entire book.

  • A great use of time

    5
    By CrazyJZman
    This was a fun story. With the usual sadness that the book is coming to a close in the last 30 pages. A regular Haldeman reader will really appreciate the tie ins at the end. Ya done it again Joe!!!!

  • A clever tale

    4
    By ProfessorFL
    Well written with an intriguing plot. Nicely done.

  • Gripping

    5
    By Dario Palma
    great time travelling novel, freakishly addictive, great story.

  • Great Read

    5
    By Birdsong43
    The book held my interest on the small screen of the iPhone.

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