Timeline by Michael Crichton

The novel Timeline by Michael Crichton is begins with a team which is fund by the ITC to use their new invention which is the time machine to go back to the past. Researchers Chris Huges, Kate Erickson, Andre Marek, and David Stern fly to ITC and meet Rober Doniger, the founder of ITC. Then the researchers learned that Johnston traveled back in time to the year 1357, but Johnston never return. So Doniger insists them to travel back to 1357 to find Johnston and bring him back, but the only problem is they need to bring Johnston back within 37 hours or else they will stay in the Middle Age forever. These researchers are persuaded to do so and transfer themselves back to 1357 with marine and experienced individual which is Gomez that works with ITC. When they arrive in the past, the team is attacked by a team of horseman who were chasing a boy suspected as being a thief, then killed the ITC member Gomez and the marine.

Separated from the others, Kate and Andre see Johnston was being taken away by the men of Lord Oliver of Castelgard. And Chris follows the boy who was suspected of being a thief and accidentally declares himself as a noble. Then Chris and Andre find themselves challenged to a joust by Sir Guy and Chris won under Andre’s instruction. After, the survival the joust and Andre defeats both Sir Guy and his second. When Sir Oliver knows, he orders the death of Andre and Chris for dishonoring Sir Guy. Kate try to help them escape, but they then being chased by the forces of Oliver.

Johnston was being caught by Lord Oliver is because Lord Oliver believes that Johnston knows a secret passageway that leads into the castle of La Roque. Johnston knows that even he tell Lord Oliver the secret passageway to the castle, so he told Lord Oliver, and loses the siege. The researchers Chris, Andre, and Kate use Johnston’s clues to find the secret passageway themselves in order to save Johnston, then they later uncovered in 1999.

The researchers know that someone else from 1999 is also from the past who has been spying them on their transmissions. But then the ITC went insane from an accumulation of transcription errors went back to 1357 more than a year ago and never returned. The researchers then captured by Arnaut’s men but they then save by Lady Claire to escape which is the lady that they help escape before. Finally, the ITC repair the landing area just in time for the researchers to return, and Andre had fell in love with Lady Claire in the Middle Age decide to stay in the past and stay with Lady Claire.

The scenarios portrayed in this book by creating a story about that there is a company named ITC that have created the time machine and have researchers to find members who already travel back to the past in a transmission that were being lost. In this time the researchers had met with many different people and different events that they will never had in the 20^th century. And one of the researchers had fallen in love with a woman in the Middle Age and chooses to stay in the past and not going back to the present.

If this book became reality, this would affect our society by change all the historical events. Such as if Columbus knows that the India that he found is North America, instead of India, and then we wouldn’t call the Native Americans – Indians, because that will mix with the real Indian. If the book became reality, there is a real time machine in this world, and then people can choose to go back to the past that they think that is their happiest time in their life and stay there might be very good.

This book is definitely related to science because this book has talked about time machine and discussed about how people travel to past and survive at last with their knowledge of the past.