Timeline

Mass Market Paperback, 496 pages

English language

Published June 9, 2000 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
978-0-345-43907-9
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OCLC Number:
263455779

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2 stars (1 review)

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, bold advances in technology exceed all expectations. Computers are built from single molecules. Information moves instantly with no wires or networks. Even moments from the past can be actualized. Now, suddenly, a group of historians have literally entered life in fourteenth-century feudal France. And the world may never be the same again.

Not since Jurassic Park has Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here the science of the future collides head-on with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a gripping-heart-stopping narrative, TIMELINE carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger. overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible... (back cover)

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Neat medieval thriller, but excesive exposition

2 stars

Once the action starts, the plot is pretty fun. But this is over a third of the way through. Until then is exposition about the physics of the time travel. This was written in the late '90s, when everything mysterious had 'quantum' in the title. Although the physics explained seems correct, it really has no use toward the story. He should've just left it mysterious.

And, with a little bit of clunky prose as well, I can't recommend this book.

Subjects

  • Quantum theory
  • Fiction
  • Time travel
  • Historians
  • History

Places

  • France