The Accidental Time Machine

Joe Haldeman

Jul 2008 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUND

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.

Ratings and reviews

Not bad. I read to the end, wanting to see how he rounds it out. Aside from the eye rolling shots at Christianity that are about as original as your typical 19 year old undergrad could muster, the weakest part of the story by far is the romance. It's extremely clunky, expected, and all together cringe. The protagonist is something of a smug neckbearded redditor who lands a trad catholic beauty whose only real purpose in the story is to he dumb, hot, and for reasons completely inexplicable, interested in this neckbearded douchebag. The author also focuses entirely too much on only how hot she is, and how much this protagonist wants to bang. The sexuality in this book is very awkward, oddly placed, and could have been left out or just winked at.

"A" for the master. Sweet tale and I am not sure why. Perhaps because the science is done well enough to give me no complaints. Many sciencefiction authors think they have to make long explanations. My thanks to the author for leaving it to my imagination.

Good book, but it felt rushed near the end. I wish it could have done more with Matt's adventures in the future and given better descriptions of the times he had visited, but a quick and good read for fans of time travel.

About the author

Joe Haldeman is a Vietnam veteran whose classic novels The Forever War and Forever Peace both have the rare honor of winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He has served twice as president of the Science Fiction Writers of America and is currently an adjunct professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.