by Michael Crichton · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266115223
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«Prisonniers du Temps» is the science fiction and suspense novel by Michael Crichton, published by Pocket in paperback (608 pages, in French).
Yale historians excavate a 14th-century monastery in the Dordogne and find a 650-year-old parchment with a plea for help signed by its director, who disappeared after visiting a technology company in Arizona. The investigation leads them to the past, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, where history and quantum physics intersect.
The original work is Timeline (1999); this French edition was published in 2002 and its cover features the mention Thriller.
For fans of science fiction, time travel and historical suspense.
John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. Crichton's novels often explore human technological advancement and attempted dominance over nature, both with frequently catastrophic results; many of his works are cautionary tales, especially regarding themes of biotechnology. Several of his stories center on themes of genetic modification, hybridization, paleontology and/or zoology. Many feature medical or scientific underpinnings, reflective of his own medical background.
