Smart and profound on every level.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) " An intelligent, gut-wrenching glimpse of how tiny actions, both courageous and venal, can have large consequences. Praise for The Future of Another Timeline: Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline-a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event.
This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too.Ģ022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.“ A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard." -Wil Wheatonįrom Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.ġ992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page! Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks. This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat.
When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. A movie called Timeline based on the book was released in 2003. The novel spawned Timeline Computer Entertainment, a computer game developer that created the Timeline PC game published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining technical details and action in his books, addressing quantum and multiverse theory. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th Century France to rescue their professor. Timeline is a science fiction novel by Michael Crichton that was published in November 1999.
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