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 longer than the last, so each is a glimpse at a different future in the fine traditions of time travel fiction. What's more interesting is that Matt becomes rather addicted to the machine as a way of escaping from any situation he can't work out quickly on his own, and I don't know that I blame him.

Naturally there is a love interest to be found, a time loop involving his own destiny, and a fun and clever wrap-up. Enjoyable all around.