Bananas in the Falklands

July 15, 2008

Book: Joe Haldeman’s The accidental time machine.

Filed under: Books — bananasfk @ 00:05

Is isbn: 9780441014996 and explores the authors time travel technique which in the ‘The Forever War‘ (my blog) he pulled off to great acclaim.

The accidental time machine explores time in a similar manner but views the humanity of the future with appraising eyes. There are no accommodations made to HG Wells* and the book and has sex in rather than Victorian fear of either the super intelligent (class) or the asbos.

It is a short book but makes it points on society and resolves itself quite nicely. It is interesting his commentary on physics.

3/5 Bananas.

*Wells is a pompous writer, and the critical spats George Orwell had at him are well worth the read. Orwells literary criticism is well worth a read even today, they can be found in the later of the 21 volume set of his letters.

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