Book description
Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research
assistant at MIT when, while measuring quantum relationships between
gravity and light, his calibrator disappears - and reappears, one second
later. In fact, every time Matt hits the reset button, the machine goes
missing twelve times longer.
After tinkering with the calibrator, Matt is convinced that what he has
in his possession is a time machine. And by simply attaching a metal box
to it, he learns to send things through time - including a pet-store
turtle, which comes back no worse for wear.
With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt
has nothing to lose by taking a time machine trip for himself. So he
borrows an old car, stocks it with food and water, and ends up in the
near future - under arrest for the murder of the car's original owner,
who dropped dead after seeing Matt disappear before his eyes. The only
way to beat the rap is to continue time travelling until he finds a
place in time safe enough to stop for good. But such a place may not
exist... Joe Haldeman (1943 - )
Joe William Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City in 1943. He holds
degrees in physics and astronomy, and served as a combat engineer in
Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and earned a Purple Heart. This
experience informed his best known work, the Hugo and Nebula
Award-winning The Forever War
. He is one of SF's most decorated authors, boasting 5 Hugos, 5 Nebulas,
the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial and James
Tiptree, Jr Awards and the SFWA Grand Master Award amongst many others.
In addition to continuing to produce top quality SF, Joe Haldeman
teaches writing at MIT.
