Time travel has always been of interest to various groups of people. While making other discoveries, leads were produced that made multi-universe travel possible. While not exactly time travel, there were new opportunities to visit past times and places. A leading scientist, under the umbrella of his corporation followed, the leads and procured a way to make it all possible. Working with archaeologists, he hoped to make discoveries of the past. When some findings of the site not yet found were leaked to the archaeologists, the professor headed to headquarters to sort out the truth. After lack of communication from him and some curious out of context findings, his assistants in the dig agreed to risk their own lives to recover him from a multi-universe that the corporation had previously been exploring. They were about to get an up-close look at the world they had been uncovering.
This book was made into a movie of the same title but they hardly mirror each other. The basic story line is the same but there are so many differences that it changes the story. While the movie is an action movie, there is much more action in the book. There is also more science and history information in the book. I enjoyed both but it is a little difficult to look at them as the same story.
I enjoyed this book and the scientist vs. historian approach to looking at the world. It is also a good example of scientific discovery that never asked, “Should we?” and left it at, “Can we?” While the discussion is resolved on that topic, there was a lot of damage control that had to be done. There is some foul language and sexual overtones but I think that the point made, along with the exciting action, more than makes up for it.
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