![]() Setting wise, the books both chose notable events within our world history within which to set up the story backdrop. ![]() Through this comparison paper, I hope to prove that, even though authors shall never admit it, they are also heavily influenced by the written works of their predecessors and oftenimes, end up borrowing story plots and devices which the latter writer, who in this case is Michael Crichton, hoped to have improved upon in his version of a suspense thriller time travel tale. ![]() Those who were left in the present era to assist them in coming back though have their own agenda and work towards an endgame, that of covering up the mistakes of their experiment in time travel. While Michael Crichton sent his characters back in time in order to save a noted historian whose time travel times also took a serious turn for the worst. In the present of the novel, the remaining characters work tirelessly to get their stranded comrade back from an era where she was not supposed to be in the first place. ![]() For Connie Willis, the characters needed to travel back in time for a historical study gone almost hopelessly awry. ![]()
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