Timeline: Summary and book reviews of Timeline by Michael Crichton, plus links to an excerpt from Timeline and a biography of Michael Crichton.

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.

Media Reviews

USA Today A classic adventure...The author has an uncanny knack for coupling suspense with scientific concepts that captivate the public's imagination. Publishers Weekly From the startling opening [of the novel] there's not a dull moment...it engages as no Crichton tale has done since Jurassic Park, as it brings the past back to vigorous, entertaining life.

Recent Reader Reviews

Rated of 5 by Susan
Did he get permission to release this information?
Wow! This is probably the best book I have ever read! I believe he is telling us what the government already knows while keeping it in a fictional setting. He uses real scientific theory and hypotheses, and applies it to real events in our history....   Read More

Rated of 5 by tony seok
this book is excellent! fantastic story!

Review (not rated) by Spendog
This Book is awesome. full of surprises. read it and you will love it.

Rated of 5 by Michelle
Like all of Crichton's novels, Timeline was full of random information and had fully developed and well-thought out plot. I never cease to be impressed with Crichton's vast stores of knowledge. Doing research for fiction has definitely paid off...   Read More

Rated of 5 by brittany
really good book. as said on cover "more screams per page... than Jurassic Park and The Lost World combined." i'd recommend it to anyone.

Rated of 5 by Julia
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