Timeline

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In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present, the dead …

755 pages

English language

Published Feb. 9, 1999 by Random House Large Print, Distributed by Random House, Inc..

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ISBN:
978-0-375-40873-1
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Subjects
  • Twenty-first century -- Fiction
  • Quantum theory -- Fiction
  • Time travel -- Fiction
  • Historians -- Fiction
  • Large type books
  • France -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction

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reviewed Timeline by Michael Crichton

Neat medieval thriller, but excesive exposition

Once the action starts, the plot is pretty fun. But this is over a third of the way through. Until then is exposition about the physics of the time travel. This was written in the late '90s, when everything mysterious had 'quantum' in the title. Although the physics explained seems correct, it really has no use toward the story. He should've just left it mysterious.

And, with a little bit of clunky prose as well, I can't recommend this book.