As he has done in many of his prior novels, Crichton has again used new technology to create a powerful story. It posits a world where computers operate without being turned on and objects are found without looking for them. An unimaginably powerful computer can be built from a single molecule. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Distant objects are examined without any contact.
Computers do their calculations in other universes.
And teleportation is ordinary and used in many different ways. Crichton greatly expands upon these strange features of the quantum worlds to help make the concept of time travel believable. In his latest novel, a group of historians and grad students are working on the re-creation of a medieval castle and town in France, commissioned by ITC, a company run by billionaire Robert Doniger, a brilliant, but somewhat deranged physicist. Their travels are beset by violent knights, warlords and other dangers. The world of medieval France is not a peaceful one.