TIME LINE
重返中世纪
TIME LINE is now in post-production and Paramount is scheduled to release director Dick Donner's film in the fall of 2003。
重返中世纪正由派拉蒙公司制作，有ＤICK DONNER 导演。将于2003秋上映。
以下是Michael Crichton的写此书感受。
I like to work with existing genres, to see if I can do something different with them. I'd always wanted to write a time-travel story, mostly because I thought it would be a good way to talk about history, but also because I thought it would be an unusual adventure story. When I started work, I spent a year just reading. The first question I faced was what period to set the story in. Since I wanted to talk about history, it wouldn't do to make all the details up, which meant the story couldn't be set too far in the past. In Europe, if you go back much before 1300, there is relatively little good documentary evidence for the kinds of information I needed-clothing, food, speech mannerisms, the details of how people lived and behaved. What did people have for breakfast? Did they have breakfast at all? What time? Did everybody have breakfast, or only rich people? I need to be able to answer questions like those, or I can't proceed.
这是一部以量子学理论指导下出现的新技术“电运”为背景的科幻小说。一名在法国中世纪废墟考古的历史学家神秘失踪,他的学生利用国际技术公司的技术返回中世纪,和古人周旋,历经艰险,救出历史学家,返回现代社会。
The film version of Prey is now in development at Twentieth Century Fox. No details yet.