Description: Detailed item info Synopsis 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 . . . Read by Stephen Lang Four Cassettes, 6 Hours Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France. Imagine the risks of such a journey. Not sinceJurassic Parkhas Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future -- the emerging field of quantum technology -- with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative,Timelinecarries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible. Product Identifiers ISBN-10 037540435X ISBN-13 9780375404351 Key Details Author Michael Crichton Edition Description Abridged Format Audio, Other Publication Date 1999-11-16 Language English Publisher Random House Audio Publishing Group Dimensions Weight 6 Oz Height 1.2 In. Width 4.5 In. Length 7.1 In. Target Audience Group Trade Classification Method Dewey Decimal 813.5/4 Dewey Edition 21 Contributors Read by Stephen Lang Reviews "COMPULSIVE READING . . . BRILLIANTLY IMAGINED." --Los Angeles Times "EXCITING . . . CLASSIC ADVENTURE . . . [A] SWASHBUCKLING NOVEL . . . CRICHTON DELIVERS." --USA Today "MORE SCREAMS PER PAGE . . . THAN JURASSIC PARK AND THE LOST WORLD COMBINED. . . . THE PACE WILL LEAVE MANY BREATHLESSLY GRASPING FOR OXYGEN MASKS." --San Diego Union-Tribune From the Paperback edition. Certain data records © 2016 Bowker. Rights in cover images reserved by owners. View more great items
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Format: Audio CD
Type: Audiobook
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Computers
Publisher: Random House
Literary Movement: Medieval
Genre: Adventure
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Author: Michael Crichton
Language: English
