This required a tremendous amount of research, and it took me almost twice as long to write as any other book except Jurassic Park. I wanted to talk about what knighthood was really like. And I wanted to write a story that dealt with the reality behind our cliched images of knights and courtly love. But in Timeline, I wanted to write a time travel story that took its premise seriously. Wells just uses time travel to make a point about the society at the time the novel was written. In recent years, most time travel stories have been comedies, or allegories. What would it be like? Would it be frightening? (I think it would be.) Would it be more dangerous than space travel? (Much more dangerous.) What would make you go anyway? So I began to think: suppose it was really possible to travel in time. I hadn’t written an adventure story since Jurassic Park, and I thought it was time for another one.
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