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The Accidental Time Machine

by Joe Haldeman (2007)

About this book

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.

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters

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