The Reluctant Assassin
- by Eoin Colfer
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Young Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer (Puffin, April 2013).
When fourteen-year-old Victorian waif Riley shows up in the 21st century on seventeen-year-old FBI Agent Chevie Savano’s watch, the two of them pair up and head back to the late 19th century to escape Riley’s evil pursuer.
Although the book involves wormholes and scientists, it’s really a quantum fantasy, wherein an ordinary fantasy has the word “quantum” scattered throughout in key places, typically before the word magic, magician, or wormhole. Nevertheless, we’ve listed it as science fiction to match its publicity material.
Although the book involves wormholes and scientists, it’s really a quantum fantasy, wherein an ordinary fantasy has the word “quantum” scattered throughout in key places, typically before the word magic, magician, or wormhole. Nevertheless, we’ve listed it as science fiction to match its publicity material.
—Michael Main
He discovered that Einstein’s quantum theory was essentially correct and that he could stabilize a traversable wormhole through space-time using exotic matter with negative energy density.
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- Time Periods
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Rifts: A “quantum wormhole.”
- Themes
- Anachronistic Music, Dance, and Other Creations: “Another Brick in Yonder Wall,” Gotham City, and 007, among others.
- Chases through Time: Garrick chases Riley and Chevie.
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: “And neither of us is a monkey!”
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer (Puffin, April 2013).
- audio reading.
The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer (Listening Library, May 2013) [Maxwell Caulfield]. - Drengen, der ikke ville være morder [The boy who would not be a killer] by Eoin Colfer (Alvilda, August 2015) [Ole Steen Hansen].
- De onwillige moordenaar [The reluctant assassin] by Eoin Colfer (Van Goor, 2014) [Mireille Vroege].
- Salamurhaajan oppipoika [The assassin’s apprentice] by Eoin Colfer (WSOY, August 2013) [Jaakko Kankaanpää].
- L’assassin malgré lui [The assassin in spite of himself] by Eoin Colfer (Gallimard Jeunesse, January 2014) [Jean-François Ménard].
- Der Quantenzauberer [The quantum wizard] by Eoin Colfer (Loewe, February 2014) [Claudia Feldmann ].
- L’assassino che veniva dal passato [The assassin from the past] by Eoin Colfer (Mondadori, March 2014) [Anna Carbone].
- Niechętny zabójca [reluctant killer] by Eoin Colfer (WAB, late 2013) [Marcin Mortka].
- O Assassino Relutante [The reluctant assassin] by Eoin Colfer (Galera Record, 2014) [Ivanir Calado].
- Ученик убийцы [Assassin’s apprentice], as by Йон Колфер (Эксмо :: Eskmo, February 2017) [А. Васильева].
- Nesmelý zabijak [The hesitant assassin] by Eoin Colfer (Vydavateľstvo Slovart, November 2014) [Dominika Weinstock].
Translations
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- The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer (Puffin, April 2013).
- English: audio reading.
The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer (Listening Library, May 2013) [Maxwell Caulfield]. - Danish.
Drengen, der ikke ville være morder [The boy who would not be a killer] by Eoin Colfer (Alvilda, August 2015) [Ole Steen Hansen]. - Dutch.
De onwillige moordenaar [The reluctant assassin] by Eoin Colfer (Van Goor, 2014) [Mireille Vroege]. - Finnish.
Salamurhaajan oppipoika [The assassin’s apprentice] by Eoin Colfer (WSOY, August 2013) [Jaakko Kankaanpää]. - French.
L’assassin malgré lui [The assassin in spite of himself] by Eoin Colfer (Gallimard Jeunesse, January 2014) [Jean-François Ménard]. - German.
Der Quantenzauberer [The quantum wizard] by Eoin Colfer (Loewe, February 2014) [Claudia Feldmann ]. - Italian.
L’assassino che veniva dal passato [The assassin from the past] by Eoin Colfer (Mondadori, March 2014) [Anna Carbone]. - Polish.
Niechętny zabójca [reluctant killer] by Eoin Colfer (WAB, late 2013) [Marcin Mortka]. - Portuguese.
O Assassino Relutante [The reluctant assassin] by Eoin Colfer (Galera Record, 2014) [Ivanir Calado]. - Russian.
Ученик убийцы [Assassin’s apprentice], as by Йон Колфер (Эксмо :: Eskmo, February 2017) [А. Васильева]. - Slovak.
Nesmelý zabijak [The hesitant assassin] by Eoin Colfer (Vydavateľstvo Slovart, November 2014) [Dominika Weinstock].