· The next stop in my time travel marathon (November being Science Fiction Month) was Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. Crichton was not what I think of as a prolific writer; he published sixteen novels in his lifetime under this own name, beginning in with The Andromeda Strain. Perhaps the movies produced from most of these titles make it seem like Crichton was /5. Timeline is not granted the same sort of adulation as some of Crichton’s other books, but it is not bad. The setting of the 14th century is an interesting change, /5(K). Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules/5(K).
Timeline was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review on Novem. The reviewer, Daniel Mendelsohn, got to the heart of what so many love about Timeline. "Because of the way they're constructed, Crichton's books tend to be as absorbing as his variables are; this helps explain the gigantic success of Jurassic Park and Lost World and even Disclosure—nobody, after. Timeline By: Michael Crichton Rating: 85% Brief Summary: Time travel back to the middle ages in the days of knights and castles. Timeline starts out as a story of science, but ends in fantasy. What else would you expect from a time-travel novel? ITC--a company located in the New Mexico--is hard at work developing quantum technology. Timeline by Michael Crichton ISBN ISBN Hardback; New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ; ISBN
Timeline is not granted the same sort of adulation as some of Crichton’s other books, but it is not bad. The setting of the 14th century is an interesting change, and he has obviously done his research in terms of the period. Best-selling American author, Michael Crichton, published Timeline () to critical and popular acclaim. The novel follows a group of graduate archeology students who traverse through a time machine to rescue their professor in fourteenth-century France. Timeline was adapted to a feature film in , as well as a popular video game in Timeline. Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining science.
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