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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Timeline – Michael Crichton [Unabridged]



Timeline is a science fiction novel by Michael Crichton that was published in November 1999. It tells the story of historians who travel to the Middle Ages to save a friend of theirs who already traveled back in time before them. The book follows in Crichton’s long history of combining technical details and action in his books, addressing quantum physics and time travel.

The novel spawned Timeline Computer Entertainment, a computer game developer that created the Timeline PC game published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. A movie called Timeline based on the book was released in 2003.

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The Terminal Man – Michael Crichton [Unabridged]

The Terminal Man is a novel by Michael Crichton about the dangers of mind control. Published in 1972, it was later made into a film of the same name.

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Wednesday, 17 October 2012

The Great Train Robbery (1975) – Michael Crichton


The Great Train Robbery is a bestselling 1975 historical novel written by Michael Crichton. Originally published in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf (then, a division of Random House), it is currently published by Avon, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. It is the story of the Great Gold Robbery of 1855, a massive gold heist, which takes place on a train traveling through Victorian era England. The great bulk of the book takes place in London.
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Monday, 15 October 2012

Eaters Of The Dead – Michael Crichton [Unabridged]


Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaption of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton. The story is about a 10th-century Muslim who travels with a group of Vikings to their settlement.

Crichton explains in an appendix that the book was based on two sources. The first three chapters are a retelling of Ahmad ibn Fadlan’s personal account of his actual journey north and his experiences with and observations of the Rus’, the early Russian people. The remainder is based upon the story of Beowulf.
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Sunday, 14 October 2012

Congo (1980) – Michael Crichton [Unabridged]


Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds in the dense rain forest of Congo.
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