Timeline

by Michael Crichton

Tucked away in the arid New Mexico desert, Robert Doniger and his team of scientists develop a time machine based on the development of quantum technology. While Doniger envisions a lucrative monopoly on the tourism and travel industries, beloved Yale history professor Edward Johnston sees it as a chance to finally experience the subject of his scholarly profession. After getting his hands on a prototype of Doniger's time machine, Johnston is hurled back in time to Medieval France. Problems arise, however, when the aged professor gets stuck in this colorful alternate universe filled with fantastic castles, knights in shining armor, and beautiful damsels in distress. Anxious to redeem his ticket to fame and fortune, Doniger sends out a daring rescue team made up of two ex-military types and three of Johnston's university colleagues dressed in the latest Medieval styles complete with electronic sound pieces used for language translation. Soon after their arrival to the year 1357, the brawny military guides are slaughtered by horse soldiers hired by an evil English nobleman who has mistaken Johnston for a sorcerer and kidnapped him. Now it's up to the academics to save the professor and find a way back to the twentieth century.

Editions of Timeline

ISBN 9780613336338	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 2001	Price $34.95	New
ISBN 9780783802619	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 2000	Price $25.40	Very Good
ISBN 9780375418693	Binding/Format Digital	Publisher Random House Audio	Date	Price None Available
ISBN 9780345517814	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Ballantine Books	Date 2009	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780739334225	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Random House	Date 2006	Price None Available
ISBN 9780345441942	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Bantam Books of Canada Ltd	Date 2000	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good
ISBN 9780345417626	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Ballantine Books	Date 2000	Price $1.00	Fair
ISBN 9780375408731	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Ballantine Books	Date 1999	Price $2.32	Good Condition
ISBN 9780679444817	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780375404368	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Random House	Date 1999	Price $13.56	Like New
ISBN 9788811685081	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Distribooks Inc	Date 2002	Price None Available
ISBN 9780345468260	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Ballantine Books	Date 2003	Price $1.00	Used - Acceptable

Publisher Notes

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 awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival–six hundred years ago. . . .

Media Reviews

"...[I]t hardly matters--it doesn't matter--that the minimal plot keeps shrinking until it virtually disappears, or that the action finally becomes so frantic it's almost slapstick, or that none of the characters, whether hailing from the 14th or 20th century, display much personality. Because this is an unapologetic novel of high adventure, and a very good one at that."