"notion that the work of academic medievalists amounts to little more than subjective reinventions of the medieval era. A feature film adaptation was produced by Paramount Pictures, with a budget of $80 million, and was released on November 26, 2003. The adaptation was written by Jeff Maguire and George Nolfi and directed by Richard Donner. The movie stars Paul Walker as Chris, Gerard Butler as Marek, Billy Connolly as Professor Johnston and Frances O'Connor as Kate. The film was poorly received by critics and audiences alike. Timeline (novel) Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, published"
"charitably noted that the novel ""doesn't quite meet current standards."" Timeliner Timeliner is a 1955 science fiction novel by British writer Charles Eric Maine. It was first published in the U. K. by Hodder & Stoughton; a paperback version by Bantam Books appeared the following year. The story was originally written as a radio play called ""The Einstein Highway"" and was broadcast in the Light Programme of the B.B.C. on February 21, 1954. ""Timeliner"" is a time travel story. A scientist working with ""dimensional quadrature"" is flung forward in time, to a period where his consciousness ousts that of another"
"Timeline (2003 film) Timeline is a 2003 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner and starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis and Anna Friel. Based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, the screenplay concerns a team of present-day archaeologists who are sent back in time to rescue their professor from medieval France in the middle of a battle. Jerry Goldsmith composed the original score, which would have been his last before his death in 2004, but it was replaced with a new score by Brian Tyler, after the first"
"Timeliner Timeliner is a 1955 science fiction novel by British writer Charles Eric Maine. It was first published in the U. K. by Hodder & Stoughton; a paperback version by Bantam Books appeared the following year. The story was originally written as a radio play called ""The Einstein Highway"" and was broadcast in the Light Programme of the B.B.C. on February 21, 1954. ""Timeliner"" is a time travel story. A scientist working with ""dimensional quadrature"" is flung forward in time, to a period where his consciousness ousts that of another man. When that man dies, the protagonist leaps forward again,"
"film website Rotten Tomatoes based on 140 reviews, stating that this ""incoherently plotted addition to the time-travel genre looks and sounds cheesy"". Most female characters in the book were cast as male in the film (Kramer, Gómez, the doctor) and Lady Claire loses major influence on the plot. Timeline (2003 film) Timeline is a 2003 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner and starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis and Anna Friel. Based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, the screenplay concerns a team of present-day archaeologists who are"
"timeline without Sylvia, Dorothy, and Adolphus. Back in his own time, Micheal Kurland asks Sir Thomas to contact him through his website or email. This book was published in 1969 after Kurland met Chester Anderson, who wrote ""The Butterfly Kid"", the first novel in the Greenwich Village Trilogy. Anderson was a poet in the Greenwich Village; Kurland had recently returned from traveling with the United States Army in Europe. The pair decided to abandon their previous career goals and become science fiction authors. Kurland was influenced by his group of friends, all of whom bore unusual names, such as Bob"
"Time's List of the 100 Best Novels ""Time""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s List of the 100 Best Novels is an unranked list of the 100 best novels—and ten best graphic novels—published in the English language between 1923 and 2005. The list was compiled by ""Time Magazine"" critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo. The list only includes works between 1923 (when ""Time"" was first published) and 2005 (when the list was compiled). As a result, notable books such as ""Ulysses"" by James Joyce—published before 1923—were ineligible for inclusion. ""Watchmen"" (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10"
"Edward Cline Edward Cline (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and essayist. He is best known for his ""Sparrowhawk"" series of novels, which are set in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. His other fiction includes a suspense series (featuring American entrepreneur Merritt Fury), a contemporary detective series (featuring Chess Hanrahan, who solves paradoxical murders), and a period detective series (featuring Cyrus Skeen in 1920s San Francisco). Outside of his work as a novelist, Cline is known for his writings on aesthetics, his defenses of capitalism and of free speech, and his criticisms of contemporary"
"Up the Line Up the Line (1969) is a time travel novel by American science fiction author Robert Silverberg. The plot revolves mainly around the paradoxes brought about by time travel, though it is also notable for its liberal dosage of sex and humor. It was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1969, and a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1970, finishing behind Ursula K. Le Guin's ""The Left Hand of Darkness"" for both awards. It was originally serialized in ""Amazing Stories"" in 1969, then issued as a paperback original by Ballantine Books later in that"
"York City. Howard Breslin Howard Mary Breslin (23 December 1912 – 30 May 1964) was an American novelist and radio script writer. He mainly wrote novels of historical fiction and is most notable for ""The Tamarack Tree"" and ""Bad Time at Honda"", a short story that was the basis of the film ""Bad Day at Black Rock"". He also published under the nom de plume Michael Niall. Howard Mary Breslin was born in New York City to Kathryn Veronica (née Connelly) and Thomas Niall Breslin, both parents of Irish descent. His father and mother met each other when they both"
"Howard Breslin Howard Mary Breslin (23 December 1912 – 30 May 1964) was an American novelist and radio script writer. He mainly wrote novels of historical fiction and is most notable for ""The Tamarack Tree"" and ""Bad Time at Honda"", a short story that was the basis of the film ""Bad Day at Black Rock"". He also published under the nom de plume Michael Niall. Howard Mary Breslin was born in New York City to Kathryn Veronica (née Connelly) and Thomas Niall Breslin, both parents of Irish descent. His father and mother met each other when they both worked at"
"for a reported seven-figure sum. A third novel was announced in August 2015. It has been confirmed that this novel is to be a sequel to ""Ready Player One"". However, no information about it was given, other than its genre, science fiction. In 2016, he married poet/nonfiction writer Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, whom he met at the 1998 National Poetry Slam. Cline’s all-time favorite video game is ""Black Tiger"", which figures prominently into the plot of his novel ""Ready Player One"". Ernest Cline Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972) is an American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter. He is known"
"published a defense of Cline in June 2016 regarding his eviction. Edward Cline Edward Cline (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and essayist. He is best known for his ""Sparrowhawk"" series of novels, which are set in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. His other fiction includes a suspense series (featuring American entrepreneur Merritt Fury), a contemporary detective series (featuring Chess Hanrahan, who solves paradoxical murders), and a period detective series (featuring Cyrus Skeen in 1920s San Francisco). Outside of his work as a novelist, Cline is known for his writings on aesthetics, his defenses"
"novel ""Timeline"", in which a group of archaeologists are transported back in time to fourteenth-century France. Crichton gives credit to the English for winning the battle in the face of vastly superior forces, citing the English willingness to adopt a less ceremonial style of battle and instead using what he calls ""shock troops"" – mercenary archers who were paid a wage for their services, trained on a daily basis much like modern soldiers, and were deadly accurate in their ability to make enemy kills from a distance of what would today be the equivalent of two or more football fields,"
"Jacqueline Susann Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American writer and actress. Her first novel, ""Valley of the Dolls"" (1966), is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, ""The Love Machine"" (1969) and ""Once Is Not Enough"" (1973), Susann became the first author to have three consecutive #1 novels on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller List. Jacqueline Susann was born on August 20, 1918, in Philadelphia, a single daughter to a Jewish couple: Robert Susan (1887–1957), a portrait painter, and Rose Jans (1892–1981), a public schoolteacher. As a"
"Tideline (book) Tideline is a 2012 suspense thriller by the British author, Penny Hancock. The book is set in Greenwich, by the River Thames in London. The book details how the main character, Sonia opens the door of her house to see a nephew of a family friend, Jez, and how she invites him in and decides she must keep him. The plot is intertwined in deep personal revelations about Sonia's past. The book was praised by S.J. Watson as 'Brilliantly written and totally gripping...It's such a thrill to read a book as deliciously dark and richly evocative as ""Tideline""."
"and a science writer to whom Heinlein partly dedicated his 1947 book ""Rocket Ship Galileo"". Cleve Cartmill Cleve Cartmill (June 21, 1908 in Platteville, Wisconsin – February 11, 1964 in Orange County, California) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. He is best remembered for what is sometimes referred to as ""the Cleve Cartmill affair"", when his 1944 story ""Deadline"" attracted the attention of the FBI by reason of its detailed description of a nuclear weapon similar to that being developed by the highly classified Manhattan Project. Before embarking on his career as a writer for"
"as he struggles to deal with both the loss of his sister and the growing conspiracy, with his ""raw and messy"" state making him a more interesting protagonist than Georgia was in ""Feed"". The book was compared favourably with Max Brooks' ""World War Z"" (2006). ""Deadline"" was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel but lost to ""Among Others"" (2011) by Jo Walton. Deadline (Grant novel) Deadline, published by Orbit Books in 2011, is the second book in the Newsflesh Trilogy, a science fiction/horror series written by Seanan McGuire under the pen name Mira Grant. ""Deadline"" is preceded"
"Deadline at Dawn (novel) Deadline at Dawn is a 1944 novel by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1946 starring Susan Hayward. The story follows ""Bricky"", a hardened ten-cents-a-dance-girl who is disillusioned with life in New York City but is too scared to admit failure and return to her small-town home in Iowa. One night she meets Quinn, a troubled young patron who Bricky lets walk her home. They discover that they both come from the same town and the two quickly bond. He then"
"Time Enough for Love Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974. The book covers several periods from the life of Lazarus Long (birth name: Woodrow Wilson Smith), the oldest living human, now more than two thousand years old. The first half of the book takes the form of several novellas connected by Lazarus's retrospective narrative. In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no"
"Matthew Quick Matthew Quick (born October 23, 1973) is an American writer of adult and young adult fiction. His debut novel, ""The Silver Linings Playbook"", became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and Chris Tucker. Quick was finalist for a 2009 PEN/Hemingway Award, and his work has been translated into several languages. In 2012, his young-adult novel, ""Boy 21"", was reviewed favorably by ""The New York Times"". Quick was a finalist for the TIME 100 most influential people of"
"Quantum Deadline Quantum Deadline is a novel by American writer and filmmaker Daedalus Howell. Published in paperback in 2015 by FMRL, the novel is a seriocomic pastiche of paranormal, sci-fi and neo-noir detective genres. It is the first book of Howell's ""Lumaville Labyrinth"" series and part of his ""Lumaverse"" story world, which includes the feature film ""Pill Head"", written and directed by Howell. ""Quantum Deadline"" shares the same narrator as the author's first novel, ""The Late Projectionist"", though, in ""Quantum Deadline"", the protagonist's name is the same as the author's, i.e., ""Daedalus Howell."" Prior to the events of the contemporary-set"
"Deadline (Grant novel) Deadline, published by Orbit Books in 2011, is the second book in the Newsflesh Trilogy, a science fiction/horror series written by Seanan McGuire under the pen name Mira Grant. ""Deadline"" is preceded by ""Feed"" (2010) and succeeded by ""Blackout"" (2012). Set after a zombie apocalypse and written from the perspective of blog journalist Shaun Mason, ""Deadline"" delves deeper into the conspiracy unveiled during the events of ""Feed"" (2010), while depicting Shaun's attempts to deal with the loss of his sister Georgia. ""Deadline"" delves more into the origins of the zombie-causing virus, and how humanity is responding to"
"Deadline (Crutcher novel) Deadline is a young adult novel by young adult writer Chris Crutcher that was published in 2007. The story follows a high school senior named Ben Wolf, who is given one year to live after being diagnosed with a rare, incurable blood disease Ben Wolf is an 18-year-old high school student from Trout, Idaho. He lives with his father, his mother, who is mentally ill, and his younger brother, Cody, who is a superb football player and attends the same high school as him. During school one day, Doctor Wagner, the town doctor, diagnoses Ben with a"
"Landline (novel) Landline is a 2014 American sci-fi novel by Rainbow Rowell. It tells the story of 37 year old Georgie McCool who discovers that she is able to call her husband's 22 year old self through his landline. Rowell stated that aspects from the novel are loosely based on her own life such as the fact that Georgie is incredibly career-driven while her husband is a stay-at-home dad. The character of Georgie McCool was named after the song Georgy Girl and the village of McCool Junction. While the novel has sci-fi themes, akin to time travel, these are used"
"The Time Machine The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term ""time machine"", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle. ""The Time Machine"" has been adapted into three feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic"
"The Time Stream The Time Stream is a science fiction novel by American writer John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). The novel was originally serialized in four parts in the magazine ""Wonder Stories"" beginning in December 1931. It was first published in book form in 1946 by The Buffalo Book Company in an edition of 2,000 copies of which only 500 were ever bound. It is the first novel to see time as a flowing stream. The novel concerns time travel and links the world Eos at the beginning of the universe with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. ""Astounding"""
"signal are honored, including Bernstein, who receives the Enrico Fermi Prize for his discovery of the tachyon. Timescape Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having ""contributed significantly to the manuscript""). It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel was widely hailed by both critics of science fiction and mainstream literature for its fusion of detailed character development and interpersonal drama with more standard science fiction"
"it on societal, biological, and psychological levels. Reviews of ""Deadline"" have highlighted the book's improvements over ""Feed"" and McGuire's avoidance of the problems normally associated with the middle work of a trilogy. There is particular praise for the characterisation of Shaun and his attempts to deal with the loss of a loved one along with the ever-growing crisis. ""Deadline"" was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel. ""Deadline"" is set several decades after the zombie apocalypse, the Rising. Two man-made viruses (cures for cancer and the common cold) combined to form Kellis-Amberlee, a normally beneficial virus that, on"
"A Wrinkle in Time A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. The book won the Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Throughout the novel, the young characters Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe, embark on a journey through space and time, from universe to universe, as they endeavor to save their father and the world. The novel offers a glimpse into the battles between light and darkness, goodness and evil, as the young"
"it as having some merit. Deadline (science fiction story) ""Deadline"" is a 1944 science fiction short story by American writer Cleve Cartmill, first published in ""Astounding Science Fiction"". The story described the then-secret atomic bomb in some detail. At that time the bomb was still under development and top secret, which prompted a visit by the FBI. In 1943, Cartmill suggested to John W. Campbell, the then-editor of ""Astounding"", that he could write a story about a futuristic super-bomb. Campbell liked the idea and supplied Cartmill with considerable background information gleaned from unclassified scientific journals, on the use of Uranium-235"
"Life-Line ""Life-Line"" is a short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein. Published in the August 1939 edition of ""Astounding"", it was Heinlein's first published short story. The protagonist, Professor Pinero, builds a machine that will predict how long a person will live. It does this by sending a signal along the world line of a person and detecting the echo from the far end. Professor Pinero's invention has a powerful impact on the life insurance industry, as well as on his own life. Pinero is mentioned in passing in the novels ""Time Enough for Love"" and ""Methuselah's Children"" when"
"On June 15, 2013, it was announced that ""Timebound"" had won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and that Walker would receive the grand prize, along with a contract with Skyscape Publishing, an Amazon Publishing imprint. After she won the award, Walker quit her day job working as a professor at the University of Maryland University College so that she could focus full-time on writing. ""Timebound"", the first novel in the ""Chronos Files"" series, was released on December 1, 2013, for Kindle users through the use of the Kindle First program, and was released in print on January 1, 2014. ""Timebound"""