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FC: Review of Michael Crichton's _Timeline_
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 08:37:13 -0500
******** http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,32918,00.html Crichton's Bad Timing by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com) 3:00 a.m. 9.Dec.1999 PST It may be one of the oldest ideas in science fiction, but an original take on time travel and dimension-skipping can make for a rollicking good yarn. Michael Crichton's Timeline, unfortunately, is as enjoyable as being bound, gagged, and forced to watch a Back to the Future marathon. Timeline's premise is straightforward enough: Advances in quantum technology let a vaguely sinister megacorp digitize humans and forward them, well, backward through time like an transmillennial FedEx package. The destination: Europe's Hundred Years War. Then -- you guessed it -- there's a glitch. A trio of grad students get dumped in the middle of 1300s France, where they have to learn, in no particular order, how to flee armored knights, joust, swordfight, and escape from even more nettled knights. [...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo () vorlon mit edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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