The Accidental Time Machine: ***
Joe Haldeman’s latest; it’s a quick and easy read, and has a lot of familiar plot lines. Mix in Wells’s TIME MACHINE with lots of modern stuff, including pieces of SEARCH THE SKY by Pohl and Kornbluth. A very scruffy grad student semi-anti-hero. (From Dayton, Ohio, no less!) A black box time machine. Ebay gone mad in the future. And so on.
It’s a lot of fun and a good romp; highly recommended as a quick, fun, easy read for anyone. Helps if you’ve ever been in or around MIT; it certainly helped me to understand where things were from my trips to Cambridge, MA.
I can’t say this is ‘alternate history’ as such, no.