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The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality (Hardcover)

by Ronald L. Mallett (Author), Bruce Henderson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday (1 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385612435
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385612432
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 54,090 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Research and theories flow nicely through this easy-to-read autobiography...simple prose makes for clear and concise explanations of the science involved.

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Strange, interesting and ultimately touching memoir.

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4.0 out of 5 stars No hoverboards but a great read..., 9 Oct 2007
By Benjamin Green (London) - See all my reviews
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'Back to the future' hover boards were promised to me when I was a child, of this I am sure. After hearing Ronald Mallett on a Radio 4 interview in late August, I decided the time may have finally come. The lack of mention towards such a creation is the only reason I would not give this book 5 stars.

This is a great story where in a strange way the huge promise of time travel is somewhat insignificant compared to the life story of this man.

Problems with race, keeping his aims a secret, the issues with his father's death weave a compelling and vivid tale.

The writing can feel a little stilted at times and yet this gives it an overwhelming honesty and the feeling that you have a highly intelligent child over eager to tell you what they have accomplished at school that day.

I no nothing of the science, the way he explained it left me feeling that physics was far more accessible than ever before. He may be wrong he may be right but that does not matter, as his passion will mean whether in this or in other avenues he will have had an impact on the world of science and myself.



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3.0 out of 5 stars Time just flies, 25 Feb 2009
I first heard Ronald Mallett interviewed on This American Life, and was deeply affected by the story of how his father's death drove him to a highly successful career as a physics professor, in the hope that he would learn enough to be able to construct a time machine to go back and warn his father to take his health more seriously.

Dr Mallett's tale has just the right balance between the emotive and the scientific, and he makes great use of analogy to explain his theories (and those of his hero, Einstein) to the layperson. It's impossible not to feel empathy with his plight, and throughout the book I found myself willing him on to crack the secret of time travel.

A superb story of how a young boy never gave up on his dream.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Honest, passionate and heartwarming. , 25 Jan 2009
By D. Beasley (Horsham, UK) - See all my reviews
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Ronald Mallett comes across as nothing short of somebody you would dearly like to meet.

In The Time Traveller, he relays the story of his life so far, mainly surrounding the premature death of his beloved father. Mallett found solace in HG Wells' The Time Machine, which spurred Mallett passionately on to find the solution to, and build, a time machine in order to travel back into the past and warn his father of his demise.

Mallett comes across a number of obstacles, be they emotional, racial or professional.

This book is absorbing, though at times complicated for those not heavily into science, and one of it's magical properties is that throughout the book you constantly hope that Mallett will succeed in going back in time.

A terrificly moving, honest, educational and often funny book told with wry humour and heart from Ronald Mallett.

Well worth a read.
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