Timeline

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 Mystery That Will Catapult A Group Of Young Scientists Back To The Middle Ages And Into The Heart Of The Hundred Years' War. Imagine The Risks Of Such A Journey. Imagine The Impossible. Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining science, technical details, and action in his books, this time addressing quantum and multiverse theory. 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 He should never have taken that shortcut.