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TIMELINE |
| by Michael Crichton |
| Michael Crichton's golden formula (cutting-edge science + plausibly bogus technology + nonstop action) never quite manages to make a trip back to the Middle Ages as deliriously hazardous, or even half as much fun, as his two jaunts through Jurassic Park, but it still works nimbly enough to make Timeline an exhilarating entertainment. In the isolation of the New Mexico desert, ITC, a low-profile corporation doing research and development in quantum technology, has discovered a way to ''manipulate an orthogonal multiverse coordinate change'' -- or to put that in layman's terms, they've built a working time machine. |
| However, before ITC's megalomaniacal founder, Robert Doniger, can devise a marketing strategy for his new product (yes, of course he's thinking travel and tourism), there's a major snafu that could easily turn into a public relations disaster. Dr. Edward Johnston, a well-known Yale professor with close ties to ITC, has ridden one of the prototype machines back to 14th-century France and somehow got himself stranded there. |
| -- Tom de Haven |
| from: Entertainment Weekly Online |
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