Timeline

Name: Timeline
Author: Michael Crichton

1999 novel by Michael Crichton

Written workliterary workQ732060

Author: Michael Crichton
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-16
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Released: 1999
Language: English
, Middle English
, Occitan
Genre: science fiction
, speculative fiction
Follows: Airframe
Followed by: Prey

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Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining science, technical details, and action in his books, this time addressing quantum and multiverse theory.

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TTimeline2003 · 2003 science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner

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Country of origin: United States
Title: Timeline
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-16
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Has version, edition or translation: Timeline
Timeline language: English · publisher: Arrow Books
Timeline released: November 4, 2003 · publisher: Ballantine Books · distribution format: paperback
Timeline distribution format: ebook
Narrative location: Dordogne
New Mexico
England
Main subject: time travel
Derivative work: Timeline
Form of creative work: novel
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-06-15
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Set in period: 1357
1999
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