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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780441014996
ISBN number: 0441014992
Label: Ace Hardcover
Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: August 07, 2007
Publishing house: Ace Hardcover
Sale Popularity Level: 9954
Studio: Ace Hardcover
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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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I really liked this book. I finished it in two days. It would have been a stay up all night book, but being 38 and a mom I can't afford to do that any more. I just found it very entertaining. I loved the glimpses I got of MIT and its imagined future. I just wish he had spent more time in each of his futures.
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I enjoyed this book very much until the last few chapters. I really would have liked more information about the characters lives when they got back to a more normal time and place. I have noticed a trend with a lot of books that just can't seem to find great end game to match their great beginnings?
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I won't bother writing a summary of the story, as there are plenty of those to choose from. I'll just tell you what I liked about the book (and what I didn't), and let you decide whether or not you think it is worth reading (hint: IT IS!).
The book was fast paced, easy to read, and a heck of a lot of fun. I didn't want to put it down (and indeed, finished it in 4 hours). The characters don't get a lot of treatment, but they are still given enough personality that you will find yourself rooting for certain outcomes as they move throughout the story (and time).
This is not hard science fiction. You will not get a detailed description of how the time machine works (although, there is some discusion of temporal theory, paradoxes, multiverses, etc.). However, you will get an engaging story that makes you wish the book were at least twice as long. And you'll definitely find yourself wishing that you could travel with Matt Fuller (the protagonist) as he makes his jumps. Each time he presses the button (which makes him jump), you'll get excited.
The author takes more than a few pokes at religion (Christianity in particular), and while I don't care for it, I've become rather used to it in Science Fiction novels. But there's nothing too offensive... and besides, he pokes fun at the scientific profession as well.
Besides that, my only other complaints were that he left a lot of things unexplained (including a major, major loose end), and wrapped the book up far too quickly (puts many other dues ex machina endings to shame). The book could have gone on for another 200 pages easily (and maintained interest)...
Overall, I would recommend this book for light reading. It's certainly not masterful, but it's very human. You'll like it, I promise!
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Haldeman's time travel novel really doesn't offer much in the way of originality, but then again, I'm not sure there's much to expand on in the realm of time travel. It's pretty much going to mix past, present, and speculative future.
The thing that sold me on this, is that the novel is relatively light-hearted and reads very quickly. At no point did I feel like I was being dragged through rugged character interaction, or getting bogged down into a scientist's mind attempting to create a work of fiction. Instead, I felt like I was being told a story that mixed romance, humor, and science fiction, to leave you feeling good about yourself at the end of the day.
Simply put: a notch above trash fiction, a few steps below ground-breaking literary work.
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An interesting quick read, but ultimately disappointing. Character development sputters out after a briefly interesting start. The story is fast paced, but appears to lose its way half way through.
The Deus-ex-machina ending is completely unsatisfying and leaves more questions than it answers - why is backwards time travel suddenly an option? What happens to the paradoxical time loops mentioned earlier? Where do these all-powerful beings come from?
If you are interested in great SF, try Haldeman's "All My Sins Remembered" which is less well known than "The Forever War", but orders of magnitude better than this book.
All My Sins Remembered
The Forever War
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