So, to answer our first question as to whether the book is better or worse than The Andromeda Strain or Jurassic Park? The answer is that it is certainly no better. The SF dimension is literally confined to the just possibility of time travel, and does not include the exploration of time paradoxes, journies to the future, or encounters with other time travellers outside of our entrepreneurial physicist's team. OK, so does Crichton add anything to the novel's predictibility? Unfortunately no. Along the way Crichton once again proves himself as a competent researcher into his novel's background, for the book is jam-packed with historical detail (occasionally a little stiflingly so). That the archaeological Professor will go back in time, will need rescuing, and so a rescue team has to be sent. From the novel's first quarter you will have obviously sussed that the physics entrepreneur has invented time travel. Meanwhile, the dig uncovers a few centuries old SOS message from its own head archaeologist. Then an old man, in a strange brown robe, is found wandering the Arizona desert who turns out to be an employee of the physicist. An ultra wealthy entrepreneurial physicist funds an archaeological dig in France while covertly buying up all the surrounding land. If you are a SF buff, the question you will want answering is whether Timeline is better or worse than The Andromeda Strain or Jurassic Park? However before we get to that, a brief resume of the first quarter of the novel's plot. Not surprisingly, from the title, Timeline is Crichton's time travel story.
Timeline - Michael Crichton Fiction Reviews
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