Read this when I was still active in the SCA. Not a great book, but a fairly enjoyable one. ( )

really enjoyed this one. a very interesting take on time travel where there is many different branching time lines. the whole medieval setting was really cool and the characters were solid.

i will say this book was also very graphic with the violence then i was expecting, not that there is anything wrong with that. but just a fair warning for those that never read it. but it was fun and thrilling just like Sphere although i dont put it on the same level as that but it was a good time. my only complaint is that when it shifts between the stuff happening in the medieval and the modern day when things are starting to get really good. it does slow it down a bit but i still think this is great book ( )

La multinacional ITC desarrolla bajo el máximo secreto una revolucionaria y misteriosa tecnología basada en los últimos avances de la física cuántica. Sin embargo, la crítica situación financiera de ITC la obliga a obtener resultados inmediatos para atraer a nuevos inversores. La opción más clara es acelerar el Proyecto Dordogne, de cara al público un proyecto para desenterrar las ruinas de un monasterio medieval en Francia, pero en realidad un arriesgado experimento para poner a prueba una tecnología que permite viajar en el tiempo y su eventual comercialización. Pero cuando se trata de teletransportar personas de un siglo a otro, el menor fallo o descuido puede aparejar consecuencias imprevisibles y pavorosas….

What would it be like to visit the 14th century, in the feudal society of Europe? What was life like during the 100 years war between France and England? Michael Crichton takes a stab at imagining it, using research written about the 14th century and quantum physics. Published in 1999, I read it then, and reread it now in 2020, where, compared to our inferior world under tRump and the coronavirus, midieval life doesn't look as bad as it did before.
ITC is a company based in Black Rock, New Mexico, not far from Los Alamos, that does research into quantum physics. They have found a way to record the human body, shrink it down to the size of smaller than atoms, and then, using quantum foam, to reconstruct the almost equal human copy from one of the multiverses, into an earlier part of the timestream. Like the 14th century, in the community of the Monastery Ste Mere.
A group of grad students and their professor have been excavating this area, employed by ITC without knowing the whole story of ITC's research. Their professor is suddenly whisked away from the excavation site by the founder of the company, to the Black Rock campus. The students carry on their work, but are suddenly notified that the top four research grad students must drop everything, to join the professor in New Mexico. Once there, they are recruited to travel to the monastery they have been excavating, but to the 14th century version of it, where the professor is now stranded.
Crichton knows how to keep the suspense and tension high in his thrillers, and in this book I found myself on the edge of my seat, so to speak, as the students and their professor become embroiled in the local struggle between two feuding nobles, and the clock to return them to their own time is counting down. Even when reading it for the second time! This was so entertaining; I highly recommend it. ( )

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