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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780441016167
ISBN number: 0441016162
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: July 29, 2008
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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.
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I simply loved this book. It was strangely moving and romantic for the time travel/scfi genre. Also, the writer's authentic feel for Cambridge, MA (past, present, and far future) touched me personally, as I spent my formative scientific years in the same streets and locales as the protagonist. After putting the book down, I find myself wishing for it to begin again. it, however, has no 'RESET' button (read book for an explanation).
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This is a book I couldn't put down, and when I finished it, I had to start reading it again. This is only my second Joe Haldeman book, I have read the covers off of my original copy of The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine is in the same class, funny, witty, scientifically accurate and compelling. The characters are even more real and likeable than William and Marygay in TFW. Joe's take on the future of mankind is believeable, this is no Eloi vs Morlock future. It's interestingly located mostly around Boston, so if you know the city, you'll find yourself saying - "Oh yeah, I know where that is". It's nice to have a familiar (or at least stationary) backdrop when careening through time.
A great read, you'll wish it were longer, but just re-read it, you'll enjoy it as much the second time.
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I enjoyed this novel very much, and I look forward to reading more written by Joe Haldeman.
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This is the modern version of H.G. Well's Time Machine. Except the scientist happens to discover time travel by accident. A very interesting look into the future. Well written and a definite page turner.
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Let's start with the novel's hero, Ph.D. candidate Fowler. Fowler accidentally discovers a time machine that, luckily for him, distracts him from a relationship that's gone awry. The thing I liked about Fowler's character is that he has a "detached" point of view that reminded me of Neal Stephenson's characters. The drawback to Fowler's character is that there is not a solid emotional attachment to his ex-girlfriend. Haldeman, while a great author in general, slips into the forbidden "tell don't show" trope here.
Fowler's plight through the future, though, did intrigue me. In fact, most of the future worlds he encounters could serve as a foundation for a novel itself.
The most compelling future was the reversion of New England to its Puritan roots after the "Second Coming" of Jesus.
The least compelling future was the odd e-Bay like world of an AI-version of Los Angeles. While cities like L.A. are often used as "infinite cities", I would've preferred New York or London (perhaps for romantic reasons if nothing else).
The best thing about the novel, though, is Haldeman's deliberate sarcasm and humor. Combined with very tight prose, he constructed a page-turner based off the humour that kept me, well, turning paging.
If we could rate novels on a 10-point scale, I'd given THE ACCIDENTAL TIME MACHINE a 7/10. But, since I enjoyed it, I "rounded up" and gave it 4 stars.
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