Timeline
Crichton, Michael
Timeline - New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. - 496 p.: pbk.: 18 cm.
A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present, so his colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War. An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disorientated in the Arizona desert. He is miles away from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the middle ages into the heart of the Hundred Year's War. Imagine the risks of such a Journey. Imagine the impossible... 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. Any moment of the past can be actualised - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in the fourteenth-century feudal France. -- inside cover. An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of Timeline, a story that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years' War.
9780345439079
English Literature
American Literature
Fiction
Science Fiction
Novel
Multiverse Theory
Time Travel
813.54 CRI
Timeline - New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. - 496 p.: pbk.: 18 cm.
A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present, so his colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War. An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disorientated in the Arizona desert. He is miles away from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the middle ages into the heart of the Hundred Year's War. Imagine the risks of such a Journey. Imagine the impossible... 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. Any moment of the past can be actualised - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in the fourteenth-century feudal France. -- inside cover. An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of Timeline, a story that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years' War.
9780345439079
English Literature
American Literature
Fiction
Science Fiction
Novel
Multiverse Theory
Time Travel
813.54 CRI
