Timeline

by Michael Crichton

Hardcover, 449 pages

English language

Published Feb. 9, 1999 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:: 978-0-679-44481-7
OCLC Number:: 99461985

(6 reviews)

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 actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France.

Imagine the risks of such a journey.

Not since Jurassic Park has Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future -- the emerging field of quantum technology -- with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative, Timeline carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible. --front flap

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Ulf Hundeiker reviewed Timeline by Michael Crichton

Schmarrn mit männlichen Männern und Quark mit Quanten

2 stars

Hier können Männer noch Männer und Helden sein und sich von Frauen anschmachten lassen. Die Frauen sind zwar auch irgendwie tapfer, aber die Kerle erst! Na gut, das kennt man. Die Geschichte wäre allerdings ein bissken weniger blödsinnig gewesen, wäre der Autor nicht so sehr damit beschäftigt, die angebliche Funktionsweise der Zeitmaschinen zu erklären. Natürlich aufgeblähter Blödsinn mit Quanten und Paralleluniversen, der schlicht zu ausführlich ist und zudem sehr an den Haaren herbeigezogen.

Immerhin, ein wenig unterhaltsam war es trotzdem..

Shirish Agarwal reviewed Timeline by Michael Crichton

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It is a beautiful, seductive book that asks questions that are open-ended even today. It tells about the multiverse and how the existence of the multiverse is known through various scientific experiments. He also shares about quantum teleportation. and how inanimate objects could be sent to the past or the future. Where it differs from science and becomes fiction is when they are able to send people in the past. More precisely, 13th century UK