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I love Joe Haldeman. His books are very readable, interesting, and move forward at a reasonable speed. The ideas are interesting and thought-provoking, his characters realistic, fallible, but likable anyway. This book is no exception. I liked the main character, understood his motivations, and the plot moved along at a good clip. I read the book at one sitting. The plot was interesting: would you use a time machine if you could only go forward, even to save your hide? The future was not what I e
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This just borrowed too much from previous writings for me. It's simular to H.G. Wells The Time Machine and the plot is also akin to the author's best work The Forever War. Beware, spoilers ahead....there are a few nice twists here. The user can go only forward, in increasing amounts of years and he doesn't return to where he started out from. At first, this works pretty well. He gets into awkward situations and manages to get out of them by activating the time machine and making another jump. Bu
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This book is just plain fun. Nothing special, nothing deep, but a thoroughly enjoyable read. Matt Fuller accidentally creates a machine that disappears, then reappears later ... but it stays away longer each time, effectively turning it into a time travel machine. Oh, and it moves a bit each jump, too. The book follows Matt as he stumbles through the multiple futures he finds himself in.
Absolutely loved this! :-D
Especially the end was lovely. :-)
Especially the end was lovely. :-)
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