The Accidental Time Machine

The Accidental Time Machine

2007 • 278 pages

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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.

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October 8, 2020

Absolutely loved this! :-D
Especially the end was lovely. :-)

February 28, 2019

I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

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