Timeline

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Tapa dura, 444 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 16 de Diciembre de 1999 por Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-679-44481-7
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Número OCLC:
632350215

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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. --front flap

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Neat medieval thriller, but excesive exposition

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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.

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Temas

  • Twenty-first century -- Fiction
  • Quantum theory -- Fiction
  • Time travel -- Fiction
  • Historians -- Fiction
  • France -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction