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Timeline

Michael Crichton

Historians are sent through quantum technology into 14th-century France to rescue their missing professor.

First published 2000

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A team of archaeologists and history students working around a medieval site in France uncovers clues tied to a missing professor and a secretive corporation’s breakthrough quantum technology. The science behind the project opens an unsettling route into an earlier era, where the team’s rescue mission becomes far more dangerous than expected.

Once the group is sent into 14th-century France, they are trapped amid war, political intrigue, and brutal medieval violence. They must use their knowledge of history and each other to survive long enough to find the professor and get back home.

As the mission unfolds, the story alternates between scientific explanation and fast-moving action, with rising urgency, repeated close calls, and a race against time. The narrative builds toward a high-stakes attempt to escape the past before events and consequences close in on everyone involved.

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Authors
Michael Crichton
First published
2000
Genres
Science Fiction, Time Travel, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical, Suspense
Subjects
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, technological
ISBN-13
9780099244721

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