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Book Review of The Accidental Time Machine

The Accidental Time Machine
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Helpful Score: 7


In general I don't care for time travel stories, but this one was different, involving a machine that jumps exponentially further into the future each time it is used...and since it only goes forward, the story avoids what I think are rather dull and overwrought takes on traveling into the past and the attending problems. The book is rather fast paced, and somewhat tame compared to most of Haldeman's work, but well done, with a central character out of classic hard science fiction. This is the twenty-fifth book I've read by Haldeman, and I wasn't disappointed.