Michael Crichton’s Timeline

When you step into a time machine, after you faxed yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out onto the soils of feudal France, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between bloodthirsty knights, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling fireball like ammunition over castle fortifications. On the social side, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may chop your head off with a quick swing of his sword or cage you in "...