Michael Crichton. (2007). Timeline. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Michael Crichton. 2007. Timeline. Books on Tape.

Michael Crichton, Timeline. Books on Tape, 2007.

Michael Crichton. Timeline. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2007.

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   • bioText: Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, in 1942. His novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure. He is also the creator of the television series ER.
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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.

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   • source: Los Angeles Times
   • content: "COMPULSIVE READING . . . BRILLIANTLY IMAGINED."
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   • content: "THE PRESENT AND THE LONG-AGO PAST COLLIDE. . . . [as] three young historians whisk themselves back to fourteenth-century feudal France to rescue a friend--and engulf themselves in all manner of mind-blowing intrigue."
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   • source: The Wall Street Journal
   • content: ""[A] BIG ROLLICKING BOOK."
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   • source: USA Today
   • content: "EXCITING . . . CLASSIC ADVENTURE . . . [A] SWASHBUCKLING NOVEL . . . CRICHTON DELIVERS."
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   • content: "EXCITING . . . CLASSIC ADVENTURE . . . [A] SWASHBUCKLING NOVEL . . . CRICHTON DELIVERS."
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   • content: Crichton is known for his fanciful plots and his attention to scientific detail. Lloyd brings both together in a performance that makes this thriller more plausible. A high-tech American company finds a way to transport people to 1337 A.D. Three archaeologists are sent back in time to rescue their mentor, who has stepped into the earlier world. Lloyd demonstrates versatility as he portrays a large number of diverse characters. He is called upon to voice many ancient dialects and jumps from one to the other gracefully. One almost doesn't notice the occasions he inadvertently pauses in the middle of a sentence before realizing its not finished. Perhaps some of the ancients are overdone, but Lloyd makes up for that with his crisp narration. He's especially proficient in his handling of the surprise ending and anticlimactic epilogue. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from November 15, 1999
     "And the Oscar for Best Special Effects goes to: Timeline!" Figure maybe three years before those words are spoken, for Crichton's new novel--despite media reports about trouble in selling film rights, which finally went to Paramount--is as cinematic as they come, a shiny science-fantasy adventure powered by a superior high concept: a group of young scientists travel back from our time to medieval southern France to rescue their mentor, who's trapped there. The novel, in fact, may improve as a movie; its complex action, as the scientists are swept into the intrigue of the Hundred Years War, can be confusing on the page (though a supplied map, one of several graphics, helps), and most of its characters wear hats (or armor) of pure white or black. Crichton remains a master of narrative drive and cleverness. From the startling opening, where an old man with garbled speech and body parts materializes in the Arizona desert, through the revelation that a venal industrialist has developed a risky method of time-travel (based on movement between parallel universes; as in Crichton's other work, good, hard science abounds), there's not a dull moment. When elderly Yale history prof Edward Johnston travels back to his beloved 15th century and gets stuck, and his assistants follow to the rescue, excitement runs high, and higher still as Crichton invests his story with terrific period detail and as castles, sword-play, jousts, sudden death and enough bold knights-in-armor and seductive ladies-in-waiting to fill any toystore's action-figure shelves appear. There's strong suspense, too, as Crichton cuts between past and present, where the time-travel machinery has broken: Will the heroes survive and make it back? The novel has a calculated feel but, even so, it engages as no Crichton tale has done since Jurassic Park, as it brings the past back to vigorous, entertaining life. Agent, Lynn Nesbit. 1,500,000 first printing; Literary Guild nain selection; simultaneous large-print edition and audiobook.

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   • content: It all begins with an unwitting couple accidentally striking down a mysterious scientist with their car in the middle of a New Mexico desert. In the flashes of events that occur thereafter, Crichton takes listeners on a quantum journey through past and present. Stephen Lang is a great fit for this edgy mystery. He balances the story's incredible occurrences with an even-keeled performance. Lang gives life not only to the characters he reads but to their environs. Timeline will not disappoint longtime fans or newcomers to Crichton's work. R.A.P. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

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1. • source: Publishers Weekly
   • value: Listen Up Award
2. • source: Young Adult Library Services Association
   • value: Best Fiction for Young Adults

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