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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of time travel, evolution of society, and what it means to be stranded without a way home
What this book is about
Haldeman's 2007 SF novel follows Matt Fuller, who discovers that a calibrator he's built sends itself forward in time when activated. He hitches a ride, but can only go further into the future — into successively stranger and more dangerous worlds. For older teens and adults.
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