One more similarity between Timeline and Jurassic Park: the technology fails right when they need it. You’ll have to read the book to find out how the science works, because I know it will sound ridiculous if I try to explain it. The technology, based on some interesting ideas about quantum physics, effectively transports people through time. The historians are flown in to investigate the technology and, because it’s a Crichton novel, things go to hell right rapidly. In Timeline, they are historians, currently excavating a castle in France. In Timeline, this cautionary tale begins with an escapee drawing attention to a company that’s up to something secret. Barring the interesting–and probably wildly inaccurate–science, Michael Crichton’s Timeline has a lot of surprising similarities to Jurassic Park: a megalomaniac capitalist who wants to use the amazing technology his company invented to create an amusement park, a ticking clock, and a Faustian warning that just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should.
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