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-eye view of the world; he deals with problems in his life – from bringing food to his snowbound mom to dealing with his girlfriend breaking up with him – scientifically, breaking them into component parts and proceeding methodically. This is extremely lucky, because when a glitch in a calibration device leaves Fuller with a working time machine that goes further into the future with every jump, he decides to play around with it when most people would just freak out and call the newspaper.

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