Through this comparison paper, I hope to prove that, even though authors shall never admit it, they are also heavily influenced by the written works of their predecessors and oftenimes, end up borrowing story plots and devices which the latter writer, who in this case is Michael Crichton, hoped to have improved upon in his version of a suspense thriller time travel tale.

Those who were left in the present era to assist them in coming back though have their own agenda and work towards an endgame, that of covering up the mistakes of their experiment in time travel.

While Michael Crichton sent his characters back in time in order to save a noted historian whose time travel times also took a serious turn for the worst. In the present of the novel, the remaining characters work tirelessly to get their stranded comrade back from an era where she was not supposed to be in the first place. _ Increasingly considered an underappreciated classic that stands proudly alongside his more famous works like Jurassic Park and Westworld, Timeline confirms Michael Crichton as the king of the high-concept thriller, and a master storyteller to boot.For Connie Willis, the characters needed to travel back in time for a historical study gone almost hopelessly awry. And the distant past isn't so distant any more. But in his absence, the students make a disturbing discovery in the ruins: the long-decayed remains of Johnston's glasses - and a message in modern English. Suspicious of the knowledge of the site shown by their mysterious financier, he returns to the US. In France, Professor Edward Johnston and his students are studying the ruins of a medieval town. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. Covers shwoing some shelf wear, internally clean and clear text and remains a nice copy Sometimes, it seems like you can reach out and touch the past. So begins the mystery that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages. An old man is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. Description for Timeline Mass Market Paperback.

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