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	• The Accidental Time Machine Joe Haldeman Ace Hardcover, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Read at your own risk.....you may stay up all night!

It's been a while since I was tempted to keep reading a book all night because the story was so engaging. Joe Haldeman's Accidental Time Machine almost ruined a good night's sleep, but as I have a 9-5 job, I was forced to resist the temptation.
What a great story! Mr. Haldeman immediately grabs the reader with a tale of a small machine - built by a physics grad student at MIT - that can leap ever-increasing distances into the future, and then it returns to the present. How the student figures out how to ride along and then deals with unexpected outcomes is only part of the reason this book is so hard to put down. Another is the fascinating characters the student meets along the way. And also some surprising plot twists.
My hat's off to Joe Haldeman for writing one of the best stories I've ever read (and I've been reading for nearly sixty years!).
Bravo!

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Romantic Sci-fi Comedy

It has been a long time since I spent a whole day reading a book because I could not put it down. It's light yes, but fun, like one of those old romantic comedy movies you see on late night TV. The humour is very low keyed. Well done Joe.

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Double hop device.

A grad student flukes into a working graviton-based time machine, around the same time as losing his job and his girlfriend dumping him.

Needless to say, he manages to get into trouble then.

The odd thing about his device is that it jumps logarithmically in time and space, and can't go the other way.

The start is the most interesting, what happens after he starts using it gets a bit on the tedious side.

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A Fun, Light-Hearted Romantic Sci-Fi Comedy

The Nebula-nominated "Accidental Time Machine" is a fun, quick read that I started at 2am and finished at 5am. It's a terrible cure for insomnia, but immensely entertaining and action-packed. It starts off normal enough, with a time machine that can only go forward, but as the jumps become larger the book takes some bizarre twists. Some readers have noted that it doesn't have the levity of, say, "The Forever War," and that's true: It feels more like a Piers Anthony speculative romp, with the best zero-gravity hand-job scene ever.

To the far future and back

A most interesting tale of a guy on a one way trip to the future, each jump taking him to a more strange era. There's a way back for him, but I won't spoil your fun.

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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 of a lifetime-or many lifetimes. Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, his calibrator turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose taking a time machine trip himself-or so he thinks.

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