489 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2000 by Arrow Books.
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. The novel spawned Timeline Computer Entertainment, a computer game developer that created the Timeline PC game published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. Additionally, an eponymous film based on the book was released in 2003.
Rich with period detail, this seemed an almost slightly less cerebral [b:Eifelheim|416327|Eifelheim|Michael Flynn|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312232314s/416327.jpg|426861]. There was a great deal of "will they, won't they" in the latter sections of the book and the ending didn't come as a shock, but it was tied up nicely and a solid, time travel story to add to the collection.
