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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3 stars (6 reviews)

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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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..

Review of 'Timeline' on 'Goodreads'

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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

Subjects

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

Places

  • France