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Accidental Time Machine | 
 enlarge | Author: Joe Haldeman
Publisher: Ace Books
Category: Book
List Price: £6.50
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 17857
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0441016162
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441016167
ASIN: 0441016162
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: New book. Due to problems with Standard Airmail delivery times from the USA, we have switched to using PRIORITY AIRMAIL ONLY. UK & European delivery is 7-10 days.
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 An Untimely Accident November 9, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
As a lover and devotee of time-travel yarns I looked forward to this latest Joe Haldeman book with some relish - let's face it, how could you not be drawn in by that sumptuous red cover of a hardback?
At the end of the book I found some difficulty in analysing it - it was as though I'd looked forward to a favourite meal, and though going through the process of devouring it, it was as if someone had switched the ingredients, and I'd eaten something else entirely. It wasn't so much an anti-climax, more like I was standing by the bonfire holding a damp squib!
Matt Fuller can only travel forwards, but no matter how far he travels, and he travels further than most that I can recall, the characters and beings that he meets are instantly forgettable, and there is a total absence of fear and foreboding in these journeys; the story is like a cigarette that's so mild that you've as good as packed up the habit anyway.
Oh dear! - this tale has put me off time-travel stories for at least a month, and that's saying something.
Sorry.
 Light and fun time travel story October 8, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a genial time travel story - MIT assistant discovers a piece of kit that can move forward (not backward) in time, each jump having to be further then the previous one. So off he jumps into various futures and sees the various changes in society in future years and thousands of years....
This is very light and fun. Although the author explores his usual themes of change there is no real sense of danger or tension although some of the darker `futures' had a real opportunity to do so. Haldeman touches on religion but again avoids making a real point.
The book felt very 1950's SF and although I felt was a little too light it was fun and easily read in one or two sittings.
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