![]() ![]() ![]() From the startling opening, where an old man with garbled speech and body parts materializes in the Arizona desert, through the revelation that a venal industrialist has developed a risky method of time-travel (based on movement between parallel universes as in Crichton's other work, good, hard science abounds), there's not a dull moment. Crichton remains a master of narrative drive and cleverness. The novel, in fact, may improve as a movie its complex action, as the scientists are swept into the intrigue of the Hundred Years War, can be confusing on the page (though a supplied map, one of several graphics, helps), and most of its characters wear hats (or armor) of pure white or black. ![]() ""And the Oscar for Best Special Effects goes to: Timeline!"" Figure maybe three years before those words are spoken, for Crichton's new novel-despite media reports about trouble in selling film rights, which finally went to Paramount-is as cinematic as they come, a shiny science-fantasy adventure powered by a superior high concept: a group of young scientists travel back from our time to medieval southern France to rescue their mentor, who's trapped there. ![]()
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