Timeline by Michael Crichton
Hardcover | 345 pages | ISBN:123 4536345454
Year Published:1999 | Tidewater Price: $19.99
Michael Crichton is one of today’s most prolific and well-known authors. To date he has published a dozen fiction novels, many of which have become bestsellers, as well as four non-fiction titles. His newest novel, Timeline, again demonstrates his ability to write science fiction with a human sensibility.
Timeline takes place in today’s world, poised on the threshold of the twenty-first century. Technology is growing at an almost unimaginable rate. Information moves instantly between various points. Mega-computers are incredibly small. It is a world of astonishing advances, where the science of quantum physics leads to quantum teleportationn-essentially time travel. This is the world of Timeline.
Into this world, Crichton takes a group of historians studying the ruins of a castle in fourteenth-century feudal France and transports them back in time. Funded by a powerful technology company with a hidden agenda, the archeologists are propelled back to the fourteenth century to see first hand the area of their excavations. Betrayed by greed and cowardice, they find themselves trapped in a hostile world. Their struggle to survive and return to their own time is spellbinding.
From the complexities of modern science to the realities of life in the medieval past, Crichton has developed a fast-paced narrative of danger and suspense. As he did with Jurassic Park, Crichton has married science, technology and humanity in a fascinating story.