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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780441014996
ISBN number: 0441014992
Label: Ace Hardcover
Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: August 07, 2007
Publishing house: Ace Hardcover
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Joe Haldeman 'has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time' (Rocky Mountain News). Now he delivers a provocative novel of a man who stumbles upon the discovery of a lifetime-or many lifetimes.
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 turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose taking a time machine trip himself-or so he thinks.
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At the beginning the novel is well written and you'll be interested in the story. By half book you'll read how is the future and the problems Matt have there, here is when the story starts being dull and it keeps that way till the end. Of course nobody can tell us how will be the future but I don't think it will be as JH wrote it here.
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A few too many open ends. There are interesting points, such as mildly explaining some futuristic aspects. The time travel possibility was interesting and belieavable, though as to why only his could was a mystery. I can buy random error, though I see a couple other reviewers could not. Could have been much better with a little more explanation of what was fully going on instead of the slow moving build up it creates that never quite get resolved.
Also, the main character is difficult to identify with, due to being a beer guzzling, drug using, MIT student. It's really just personal preference, but I tend to feel that if you're into science then you should at least follow some of its proven recommendations. These being adequate sleep, exercise, non-drug use, reasoning out decisions, etc, which amazingly the main character does all entirely backwards. Again, just personal preference, but very difficult for me to identify with to fully enjoy.
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The story was mildly interesting though the characters were shallow and two-dimensional. While the author introduces ideas and lines of thought that have great potential, he drops them and leaves you unsatisfied. Whether it's laziness or perhaps he can't be bothered with exploring the realm of "What if?", I can't decide. And why does the author hate Christians so much? Reads almost like an atheist manifesto. My time machine shows this book sitting on the bargain shelf in the near future. 75% off.
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Great story and a quick read. I found myself not wanting to put it down as I was dying to see what trouble was subsequent and how it ends. I have never read work by this author: he will certainly be added to my favorites. A must for lovers of time stories.
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I've always enjoyed Haldeman... but I've not been keeping up and decided this book would be the one I'd try. I sat in one airliner, two airports, two trains and one bus and the book made the time go by pleasantly--what more can you ask from a story.
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