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Timeline
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by Michael Crichton
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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...
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Fiction, Hundertja hriger Krieg, Wissenschaftler, Historians, Quantum theory, Zeitreise, Time travel, History, Historiadores, Teoría cuántica, Science Fiction, Teleportation, HistoriaViajes a través del tiempo, Thriller, Suspense fiction, Adventure stories, Social life and customs, Ficción, Technology, Twenty-first century, Hundertjähriger Krieg, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, technological, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, thrillers, technologicalPeople
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Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
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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.
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