The accidental time machine

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Joe W. Haldeman: The accidental time machine (2008, Ace Books)

275 pages

English language

Published Sept. 15, 2008 by Ace Books.

ISBN:
978-0-441-01616-7
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OCLC Number:
183267549

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Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring quantum relationships between gravity and light, his calibrator disappears and reappears one second later. In fact, every time Matt hits the reset button, the machine goes missing twelve times longer.

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A light but entertaining time travel story. I'd have preferred more character development, but the actual time travel aspects of the plot worked well for me, with no obvious glaring paradoxes. It felt rather like a modern take on H.G. Wells's classic, which I didn't mind - it was different enough to feel like its own story, while still having echoes of the other.

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Subjects

  • Time travel
  • Fiction