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The Accidental Time Machine

by Joe Haldeman

3.52 · rating details · 1,767 ratings · 326 reviews

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 disappears—and reappears, one second later. In fact, every time Matt hits the reset button, the machine goes missing twelve times longer.

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Published July 29th 2008 by Ace (first published January 1st 1998)

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May 30, 2009

Jon rated it

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3.4 stars

A very quick read for me. A time travel tale with vaguely described quantum physics (string theory and gravitons) and shallow character development. A satisfying ending, but too happy and convenient with a dash of poetic or ironic justice to appeal to me. The religious aspects didn't disturb me; in fact, they intrigued me. I look forward to the book club discussion.

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May 09, 2008

Ryan rated it

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Oh the fun you can have with time travel. I would say this was a slightly above average sci-fi exploration of the space-time continuum, although I thought it borrowed a little too heavily from H.G. Wells' classic. The periodic regression of civilization and the eventual extinction of life on Earth just didn't strike me as that creative. I would have also like to see more on the inherent paradoxes of time travel instead of the clumsy interpersonal relationships he spends so much time on. I don't ...more

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Jun 18, 2009

Libby rated it

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Dec 18, 2007

Karina rated it

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This was light reading; I have finished it in one day. I'm still not all clear on the detail how the protagonist bails himself out of prison, and it's bothering me. So I guess the conclusion isn't all that neat as in The Door Into Summer where the story goes full circle. Still there was a happy ending for the protagonist apparently. I kind of wish I'd finished reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid since this book mentions Godel and strange loops, which I only have a basic understa...more

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May 29, 2009

Beth A. rated it

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I got caught in this story immediately, it had an interesting premise, and it flowed quickly. It was entertaining enough to keep me up late even though I was very tired and had a long drive the next day. The characters were believable even if some of their circumstances required a certain amount of suspension of disbelief. I liked the ending, too.

Note: This book contains some themes that reflect negatively on religion, also occasional foul language, drug use, and not-too-explicit me...more

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Oct 21, 2007

Jamie rated it

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This was pretty good - Haldeman is a great storyteller, and his characters are always likeable.

Maybe it's because I recently watched the time travel movie Primer, but the invention/discovery of the time machine seemed a little trite (this box was designed to do x, but it's actually a time machine!) The time travel itself was very interesting, and different from anything I've read.

The book might be considered post-apocalyptic, as the time traveler discovers a future world...more

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Aug 05, 2009

Richard rated it

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This was the SciFi selection for the Goodreads SciFi and Fantasy Book Club for the month of June 2009. Visit this link to see all of the discussions, group member reviews, etc.

This is old school science fiction. Very clever, nicely thought-out hard-scifi plausibility, and very light on character development.

The plot is a classic voyage-and-return in which our likable but flawed protagonist is more-or-less forced far from home, undergoes struggles, and — perhaps — finds hi...moreThis was the SciFi selection for the Goodreads SciFi and Fantasy Book Club for the month of June 2009. Visit this link to see all of the discussions, group member reviews, etc.

This is old school science fiction. Very clever, nicely thought-out hard-scifi plausibility, and very light on character development.

The plot is a classic voyage-and-return in which our likable but flawed protagonist is more-or-less forced far from home, undergoes struggles, and — perhaps — finds his way home. Along the way he meets allies and opponents, and a little romance (okay, so that isn't classic scifi). There is no grand villain here, which isn't a surprise since scifi isn't as taken with the myth of pure evil as fantasy is.

The book is a moderately short and easy read; I think it took me six or so hours in total. It isn't a riveting page-turner, but shouldn't have any problems holding the attention of a scifi fan for its duration.

The lack of any deep characters will be dismaying to many, and it is that aspect that earned this only three stars. We spend the entire book inside the head of the protagonist (third-person narrative, but I don't think it ever strayed far from the first person), but we never get to know him as any more than your classic scifi character, the grad-school mild-misfit.

He never got around to finishing his PhD -- why? He just broke up with his girlfriend (who remains a minor but critical character) -- why? His father is never really mentioned. He was never circumcised, despite being Jewish, but this curious detail isn't revealing of any interesting history, just a trivial plot device. He has a mildly strained relationship with his mother, who might drink too much and might call too often. But when his escapades means that he has to abandon her in her senior years, he actually doesn't even factor this into his decision.

Still, we like him. And Haldeman triggers the appropriate superficial reactions to the other characters as well, although Haldeman isn't doing any extra work here, since all the female characters described in any detail are very attractive or better, and the male lead is no worse than mildly disheveled.

A nice evening's read.

P.S. Anyone know why the time traveler looks like Jesus? I guess there's an obvious answer, but it seems like such an arbitrary plot device that I hope I'm wrong.

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Apr 05, 2009

Andy rated it

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I am have fairly specific requirements for time travel stories. However they treat time travel, it has to make sense to me. This book did, which is the main reason it got 5 stars. The plot is actually fairly simplistic, and there are really only 2-3 characters none of whom are very deep or rich. But it was quite entertaining. The story follows Matt into the distance future, one leap at a time in a way that reminded me quite a bit of Marooned in Realtime (another favorite).

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Aug 25, 2008

Nate rated it

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Recommends it for: that guy over there

Another compulsively readable title from Joe Haldeman. Think The Forever War in terms of scope & central character focus. The hero is pretty much instantly likable and it has a nice denouement at the end.

It'll be a quick read for you--finished it in one day, but that shouldn't detract from the fact that it moves swiftly, through time no less! Pa-ching!

I agree that the introduction of a deus ex machina towards the end leaves more questions than answers, but overall it was ...more

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Feb 08, 2009

Paul rated it

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The Accidental Time Machine, by Joe Haldeman.

Coincidentally, I was recently talking about a Poul Anderson short story, "Flight to Forever", which has some resemblance to this novel.

The basic premise is similar with some twists. Matt, a grad student at MIT, accidental invents the eponymous time machine. Its only a one way device, and the "jumps" are logarithmically longer and longer, and so his journey quickly becomes a one way trip to the future, look...moreThe Accidental Time Machine, by Joe Haldeman.

Coincidentally, I was recently talking about a Poul Anderson short story, "Flight to Forever", which has some resemblance to this novel.

The basic premise is similar with some twists. Matt, a grad student at MIT, accidental invents the eponymous time machine. Its only a one way device, and the "jumps" are logarithmically longer and longer, and so his journey quickly becomes a one way trip to the future, looking for a way to reverse the process and return to his own time.

Along the way, he discovers strange cultures, picks up a passenger, and finally manages to return to the past, but not in the way or manner that he expects.

So on the basics, its pretty similar to the story mentioned above. The concept as Haldeman executes it, though is a little more polished in the physics. Anderson's story was really a device for sending his protagonist through time. Haldeman takes some things into consideration that Anderson doesn't--for example the idea that the time machine's "landing location" might change through time thanks to the motion of celestial bodies.

Like Anderson's story, we wind up with some strange future societies that Matt and his inadvertent fellow passenger whom he picks up encounter. A religious theocracy, a society which seems to be Ebay writ large, and a post-Singularity beings are among the challenges that Matt faces as he jumps through time.

The novel is short, and aside from the religious theocracy and Matt's present (in the mid 21st century), we never really spend a lot of time getting to the nuts and bolts of the worlds. Haldeman could have spent endless pages on each of these stops, and in some cases, I would have liked to learn a little more about Matt's stops. Also, the ending is, frankly, a deus ex machina in an almost literal sense. There are also aspects to the narrative (the idea that there are multiple timelines, or multiple versions of Matt being sent back) that are mentioned in a few sentences and never really explored fully. Also, the explanation of just how the accidental time machine really worked is very much glossed over.

So I have to say that I was disappointed in the novel overall, which unfortunately (after Forever Peace) means that I've now read two novels by Haldeman that I don't like in comparison to one (Forever War). I suppose that he is going to now drop off on the list of authors that I will read, sad to say. The Accidental Time Machine is not a *bad* novel, but its, to use culinary terminology, definitely a little undercooked and the flavors didn't meld well. It was a disappointment.(less)

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May 28, 2008

Eva Mitnick rated it

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An MIT grad student discovers that a calibrator he built for an experiment is actually a time machine, but only into the future. Dreaming of fame and fortune (not to mention a Ph.D), Matt hops farther and farther into the future, dodging in and out of dicey situations and, incidentally, meeting a nice girl. The pleasant, easy-going style kept me reading, but the further I read, the more questions I had - and most were never answered. Frustrating...although the ending was a neat little twist.

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Jan 30, 2011

Sarah rated it

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The Accidental Time Machine is Joe Haldeman's most recent stand-alone novel written in a quirky style rivaling Terry Pratchett's fun novels and even Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

Matt is a research assistant at MIT when the calibrator he's working on becomes a time machine by complete accident - hence the book's title. Upon discovering he's lost his job and his girlfriend to the man replacing him at work, Matt decides to take a trip with his time machine. We ...more

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Jul 31, 2010

Ryun rated it

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Joe Haldeman has nothing to prove as a science fiction writer. His bibliography includes enduring classics and multiple award winners, and his following and appeal is such that he could probably just phone in a book or two every year and make a decent living for himself. That’s one of the reasons his newest book, THE ACCIDENTAL TIME MACHINE is so great, because it didn’t have to be.

THE ACCIDENTAL TIME MACHINE follows MIT graduate student Matt Fuller. He’s got a semidetached geek’s-ey...more

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Jan 15, 2010

Chip rated it

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Well, I can say I've finally met Jesus - sort of, anyway. I was not the only reader who cringed as the protagonist advanced into the future, worried that the plot appeared for an uncomfortable while to parallel the novel of (nearly) the same name by HG Wells. There was a Jurassic Park moment, which made me wonder if Haldeman's novel preceded Crighton or the other way around. As far as the actual physics of the time machine - one man's dilithium crystal is another man's graviton/string theory....more

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Aug 31, 2009

Brendan rated it

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Shelves: 2009, book-club, fiction, scifi

I read The Forever War a while ago, and enjoyed it immensely. One way to articulate that book’s project, though, is as follows:

A man joins the army and, because of successively longer relativistic jumps, experiences the slow evolution of the human race and society over hundreds or thousands of years. Interesting developments of character and thought experiments about humankind follow.

Here’s a brief summary of The Accidental Time Machine:

A man accidentally invents ...moreI read The Forever War a while ago, and enjoyed it immensely. One way to articulate that book’s project, though, is as follows:

A man joins the army and, because of successively longer relativistic jumps, experiences the slow evolution of the human race and society over hundreds or thousands of years. Interesting developments of character and thought experiments about humankind follow.

Here’s a brief summary of The Accidental Time Machine:

A man accidentally invents a time machine and, because it only moves forward through time in successively longer jumps, experiences the slow evolution of the human race and society of hundreds or thousands of years. Interesting developments of character and thought experiments about humankind follow.

That nit picked, the book entertains and holds up well, and its more recent provenence means its issues (such as the rise of conservative religious power-mongers) are more relavent for today’s readers than are Forever War’s. A few additional thoughts:

* I like the politics of scientific discovery and its place in the novel. The continuing question of whether the main character gets credit for his discovery amuses me to no end.
* The most well-thought out section is the 200-some year jump in which Matthew finds himself in a post-war regression period of religious fervor. Haldeman damns the tendencies of conservative politics and/or religion to hide information that disagrees with their point of view. He also makes plenty of room for those raised under such umbrellas and the lack of perspective such experiences engender.
* He also develops a damning perspective of the far future of eBay culture, a kind of counterpoint to Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. In Haldeman’s consumerist future, people have lost initiative or incentive to do anything because no secondary economy (beyond ownership) has developed. By contrast, Doctorow’s book suggests that once the problems of food and population are solved, the gift/reputation economy will emerge and provide different incentives for people to create and thrive. At the same time, one could imagine thoughtless lumps like Haldeman’s characters living in Docotorow’s world too.
* There are A.I.s in Haldeman’s world, but they don’t get much attention, other than being bored with the short-sightedness of human biengs.

Overall, it’s an intriguing read and a solid story. Worth looking at, for sure.(less)

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Feb 10, 2011

Tyrone rated it

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This is a short easy read which zips along nicely and has a nice finish. Matt Fuller, our main protagonist, is an under achieving student working as a research assistant, seemingly to avoid completing his education. His girlfriend has just left him and when he loses his job to the same man; seemingly a younger, handsomer and more dynamic version of himself that his girlfriend has taken up with the future seems bleak. Or is it? When he discovers that a machine he has constructed has the ability t...more

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Jul 25, 2009

Kate Sherrod rated it

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This book often threatened to tip into the territory of David Gerrold's wondrous The Man Who Folded Himself but never quite made that trip. It would have been fine with me if it had, but one of those is probably enough.

What we have here instead is a playful use of a not-quite-MacGuffin (as Haldeman explains in his author's note, a scientific paper was quite recently published in which his graviton/string theory conceit is explored as serious science) to explore a few possible futures...more

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Jun 01, 2009

Daniel rated it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book had a fast start and was a quick read, but the story plateaued about mid-way and faded at the end. What I thought was going to be a good book turned out to be a disappointment.

Haldeman's writing style is fluid and moves at a fast pace. He provides a great hook at the opening and the reader is drawn into the story.

He touches on many interesting themes -- religion, science, relationships, environment, etc. -- yet none become fully developed. The same with the civi...more

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Aug 11, 2011

Jennifer Wells rated it

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Summary:
MIT lab technician Matt Fuller discovers that the calibrator he was working on can disappear. At first it vanishes for only a second, then for several seconds, then minutes. Matt decides it is, in fact, a sort of time machine, able to leap into the future for longer and longer periods of time each instance he activates it. He designs an experiment to send a turtle into the future, then finally himself.

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Aug 17, 2010

Rob McMinn rated it

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The Accidental Time Machine is a straightforward SF adventure with a simple premise. There’s very little toying with paradox and and brain-aching concepts, and it’s straight on with the story, a ripping yarn about a graduate student who builds a bit of lab equipment that doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. Instead, it seems to be able to move forward in time. The twist is, it goes further forward by a factor of twelve each time it’s switched on.

Problem is, it has a tendency to move ...more

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Sep 06, 2010

Cheney rated it

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Phenomenal book. Haldeman has a nice linear style and is easy to read. It comes off like an old crow telling a familiar anecdotal story. This is good because it makes the string-theory and brane universe science involved in the time travel a little easier to digest. The characters are well developed and either believable in their actions or very likable accordingly. Martha is about the best female character I could imagine arising out of the experiences that ensue. I enjoyed this to the point of...more

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Nov 06, 2009

Drake rated it

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After reading another time travel book by Joe Haldeman, ‘The Forever War’ and absolutely loving it, I figured I’d give ‘The Accidental Time Machine’ a shot. Although not as entertaining or as illuminating his classic, it was fun trip through space and time. The story follows a young graduate student as he accidentally invents a time machine and begins to jump into the future. However, he soon discovers that it can’t do the one thing he wants, return to the past. And the further he gets into ...more

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Jun 18, 2009

Shannon rated it

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It's 2057 and Matt Fuller is a postgrad student in chronophysics at MIT. He's essentially given up on his thesis and works as an assistant to Professor Marsh, and his girlfriend Kara has just dumped him. Having constructed a calibrating machine for the professor's work, Matt hits the "reset" button and watches it blink out of existence, only to return before anyone but him notices. The second time he presses it, it disappears for ten seconds. Kidnapping the machine, he takes it home an...moreIt's 2057 and Matt Fuller is a postgrad student in chronophysics at MIT. He's essentially given up on his thesis and works as an assistant to Professor Marsh, and his girlfriend Kara has just dumped him. Having constructed a calibrating machine for the professor's work, Matt hits the "reset" button and watches it blink out of existence, only to return before anyone but him notices. The second time he presses it, it disappears for ten seconds. Kidnapping the machine, he takes it home and pursues some experiments, figuring out that the machine time travels - first it was one second, then 10, then 170 and then 2073 seconds.

By the time he gets up to three days, he's attached a turtle and a camera to it and tries again. This time the metal machine has shifted off its wooden base, as well. The camera shows nothing but some grey static for a short time, and the turtle hasn't been gone long enough, in its own time reference, to need water, food or sleep. The clock he had attached shows it was gone for only a minute.

Matt calculates that the next time jump will be for 39 days and a bigger distance, and decides to go with it. He needs a metal cage, and borrows an old Ford from his drug-dealer friend Denny. Reappearing a minute later, in his own time, to create a traffic accident, Matt's arrested for the murder of Denny, who died when he saw the car vanish in front of his drug-addled eyes.

When his million-dollar bail is paid by someone who looks like him and who sends him a message, Get in the car and go!, Matt jumps forward in time over 170 years, only to find that the world is a very different place and he's no closer to finding a civilisation that can help him go back in time to bail himself out of jail. The only thing he can do is keep moving forward in time.

This book has plenty of promise, but is disappointingly flat. Matt is a non-entity - in fact, none of the characters are fleshed out much and simply function as plot devices, vehicles through which to move the story forward. Which is ironic, since the story is the characters and can't exist without them.

I couldn't even tell you what they looked like. Not a big deal, but a good writer will create a fully realised and very real character through their personality, their dialogue, their choices, and so you get a very real sense of them without details like what colour hair they have etc. Sadly, Matt doesn't have much of a personality, or charisma, or attributes that make you care one way or the other.

The other disappointing aspect of the novel is the time travelling itself. While there is a bit of a creepy, almost scary atmosphere - jumping forward so far that humans don't even exist anymore tends to make me feel pretty melancholy and blah - it's wasn't terribly imaginative, and lacks realism because it presupposes certain things, such as a very stable environment, for which there is every indication we have royally screwed up.

While there is one neat little twist at the very end, to do with genealogy, the big glaring "who paid Matt's bail and how?" question was never fully resolved. Oh, there's a trite explanation, but I was left feeling way more confused than before.

By the end of the novel, I was feeling quite apathetic towards the whole story. What was the point? What message did it convey? I'd say there are a few "messages" concerning the human condition and the fundamental laws of physics etc., but I really didn't care enough to bother thinking about them. I could tell that they were there, but unlike some other books with similar themes, or potent "messages", I couldn't help but think that I could spend oh so many minutes thinking about it, and deduce nothing original from it.

I didn't mind the book while I was reading it, though it took longer than it should have, being short and simply enough written. Now that I'm writing this review and all the negatives are coming out, I'm going to have to revise my rating of 3 and give it a 2: it was okay, just okay.(less)

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Mar 04, 2011

B.C. Young rated it

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The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman tells the story of Matt Fuller. As a lab assistant at MIT, he accidentally discovers a time machine – thus the name of the book. The discovery takes him on a journey that spans thousands upon thousands of years, where he comes in contact with different civilizations in the future. But his one goal is to finally go home, or I should say, to his time period.

The Good: If you are like me, and you like time travel stories, then you should enjoy th...moreThe Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman tells the story of Matt Fuller. As a lab assistant at MIT, he accidentally discovers a time machine – thus the name of the book. The discovery takes him on a journey that spans thousands upon thousands of years, where he comes in contact with different civilizations in the future. But his one goal is to finally go home, or I should say, to his time period.

The Good: If you are like me, and you like time travel stories, then you should enjoy this book very much. The approach to the time travel is simple, and the future outcomes are a fun affair. Unlike most books that focus on an eventual outcome for the human race, The Accidental Time Machine (by the way, I love that it is just one word away from being called The Time Machine), shows what happens to the human race in many different time periods in the future. It’s a delightful romp into impossibility, and just the sort of thing that any time travel fan will enjoy.

The Bad: The book runs at a good, fun pace at the outset. It’s enjoyable to see what Matt Fuller does upon his discover of the machine. However, about forty percent of the way through the book, it does tend to drag a little bit. It doesn’t start picking up again until you are nearly seventy percent of the way through. It felt like this part of the book could have easily been condensed, but I’d imagine the author was looking to not make the book too short.

The Ugly: I was hard pressed to find anything about the book that was ugly. I thought maybe it was the religious/anti-religious angle the book took. But, like all great science fiction that tackles religion, the author leaves the belief or non-belief in God ambiguous being as careful as possible not to step on anyone’s toes. But maybe just slightly towards those who do have a faith. Had it leaned too much in one direction, this would have been ugly. But I can easily say there was nothing about the book that made me feel this way.

Overall, I really liked The Accidental Time Machine. It’s a delightful adventure in time travel and made me wonder what I would do if I accidentally discovered a time machine. Then again, I always wonder that, even without this book.(less)

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Jun 04, 2009

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**A spoiler or two follow, but nothing that will wreck The Accidental Time Machine. At least I don't think they will.**

The Accidental Time Machine is a pretty disappointing piece of Sci-Fi, but then my expectations were probably too high.

I've heard great things about Joe Haldeman over the years, particularly about his Hugo Award Winning book The Forever War, so I was expecting The Accidental Time Machine to be entertaining and hoping it would be compelling.

I...more

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Jul 24, 2011

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From this multiple time winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards comes another great work of science fiction. While The Accidental Time Machine does not in any way compare to The Forever War (1976) or Camouflage (2004), Joe Haldeman still creates an exciting novel that you cannot put down. This book starts out like a standard adventure novel about time travel, but quickly picks up speed and interest. Haldeman manages to pack the Puritans, Jurassic Park, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stranger in a St...more

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Oct 04, 2010

Tamera rated it

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An okay quick read. The main character accidentally discovers a quirk that turns a boxed mechanical device into a travel forward only time machine. Instead of dealing with and solving his problems he finds it easier to push a button to escape his preducament. Each jump into the future takes him into a world that has changed. Eventually he has to be rescued by beings that appear in his dreams and lands him back in time to predate his own birth. So many opportunities to explore several interes...more

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May 25, 2010

Theo Petersen added it · review of another edition

A good sci fi yarn with a little gosh-shuckery reminiscent of the golden age, but with a more interesting hero. Matt assembles a piece of lab equipment for his boss and presses the reset button to find the thing disappears; try it again and it vanishes for longer. He works out that the device is somehow jumping forward into the future, and a quick experiment with a watch, camera and pet turtle suggest he could go along. So of course he does.

Each jump into the future is 12 times lo...more

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Aug 28, 2010

Marcus Gipps rated it

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I'm never entirely clear why Haldeman's books don't really get published over here. Yes, you can get the Forever books, but that seems to be about it. So when I saw this in the 'guest library' in the site office when I was on holiday, I thought I'd grab it. I should have given it back, but I didn't. Hah! Master criminal, me. It's pretty good, to be honest. It has a slightly old-fashioned feel to it, although I'm not sure I can really quantify that. It just had a sixties sf-feel to it, as if it ...more

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Jan 03, 2012

Chris Ingalls rated it

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I picked up this book because I read Joe Haldeman's "Camouflage" a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it. This one is a bit of a "lighter" read, mainly because the main character (an MIT research assistant who accidentally discovers a time machine) is a generally likable, humorous character.

He bounces all over the place with the time machine (which, alas, can only jump ahead and not back), at one point coming to a point a few hundred years in the future where...more

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Haldeman is the author of 20 novels and five collections. The Forever War won the Nebula, Hugo and Ditmar Awards for best science fiction novel in 1975. Other notable titles include Camouflage, The Accidental Time Machine and Marsbound as well as the short works "Graves," "Tricentennial" and "The Hemingway Hoax." Starbound is ...more

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The Accidental Time Machine

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