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020			_a9780345439079
082			_a813.54 CRI
100			_aCrichton, Michael
245			_aTimeline
260			_aNew York: _bBallantine Books, _c2000.
300			_a496 p.: pbk.: 18 cm.
520			_aA 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.
650			_aEnglish Literature
650			_aAmerican Literature
650			_aFiction
650			_aScience Fiction
650			_aNovel
650			_aMultiverse Theory
650			_aTime Travel
942			_2ddc _cSF
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