TimeRiders
- by Alex Scarrow
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Young Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, February 2010).
Three new recruits to the Timeriders agency are the only defense against a time-travelling mastermind and an apocalyptic future.
—Gareth Gordon
The agency was set up to be ready for what they knew was coming: future time travellers, those who'd want to change the past and rewrite the present—terrorists, religious fanatics, megalomaniacs, the criminally insane.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: the sinking of the Titanic
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: Hitler’s attack on Russia
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: John F. Kennedy’s assassination
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099
- Timeline Models
- Causal Loop: The Timerider mentor keeps dropping hints that he may be an older version of one of the recruits.
- Delayed Change to a Timeline
- Narrative Hypertime
- Proper Timeline: protected by the Timeriders
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal
- Time Tubs: They use a large glass cylinder for their time machine.
- Themes
- Ban on Time Travel: Time travel is prohibited on pain of death, but the Timeriders agency travels anyway to stop other time travelers.
- Clock Roaches: “Seekers” sometimes appear after time travel.
- Grabbing or Affecting Someone Right before Death: The recruits were taken from imminent disasters.
- Kill Hitler: The antagonist teams up with Hitler before ousting him.
- Making Things Worse: The Timeriders' first attempt to restore the timeline results in a nuclear apocalypse.
- Never Change the Past!
- Save JFK!: The Timeriders save JFK from one shooter, but another team opens fire and assassinates him.
- Stop the Apocalypse!: The antagonist accidentally starts an apocalypse.
- Time Cops: the Timerider agency
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: Traveling through time slowly causes internal damage, manifesting as cancer and premature aging.
- Real-World Tags
- 9/11: The Timeriders’ base is hidden in New York, looping through 9/10 and 9/11 endlessly.
- HMS Titanic: One of the characters was a porter on the Titanic before joining the Timeriders.
- Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs: The Timeriders use cyborgs to handle dangerous missions and guard agents.
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- TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, February 2010).