A Mutiny in Time
- by James Dashner
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Children
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “A Mutiny in Time” by James Dashner (Scholastic, August 2012).
This first book of the multi-author series tells of how teens Dak (a history buff and odd duck), Sera (a science nerd), and Riq (a member of the secret Hystorians society) end up as the only ones who can save the world by fixing breaks in time that changed what was meant to be. Their first mission—saving Columbus from a mutiny that was meant to fail—is a disquieting choice that I would not choose as an introduction of history to children. For starters, they are choosing to save the man who brought genocide to the Americas. And to boot, in the broken world where the mutiny succeeded, his three ships still completed their voyage with no noticable change to subsequent centuries (apart from Columbus resting at the bottom of the Atlantic).
—Michael Main
Time had gone wrong—this is what the Hystorians believed. And if things were beyond fixing now, there was only one hope left . . . to go back in time and fix the past instead.
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- Time Periods
- Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): Ancient Egypt
- Early Modern History (AD 1454 to 1600): Spain
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed time period
- Time Travel Methods
- Pocket Time Machine: the Infinity Ring
- Time Rifts: the ring creates a wormhole through time
- Themes
- Butterfly Effect: “Even stepping on a bug could drastically alter the future . . . I mean the past.”
- Changewars: the Hystorians vs the SQ and their time wardens
- Fix History!: stop the mutiny on the Santa Maria
- Future Is “Down”: “Time is like a river and the current flows to the future.”
- Language Difficulties: Language issue are addressed via the ear-implant translator.
- Time Corps: the Hystorians
- Travelers Must Account for Earth's Movment: Sera mentions this briefly
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Dystopian World: the SQ and global catastrophes
- Groupings
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- “A Mutiny in Time” by James Dashner (Scholastic, August 2012).
- audio reading.
“A Mutiny in Time” by James Dashner (Scholastic Audio Books, August 2012).
Translations
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- Hebrew.
טבעת הנצח 1 - מרד בזמן by James Dashner (Modan Publishing, 2013). - Portuguese.
“Um motim no tempo” by James Dashner (Seguinte, April 2013). - Russian.
Мятеж во времени by James Dashner (ACT, 2013). - Turkish.
“Sonsuzluk Halkası Zamanda Bir İsyan” by James Dashner (Pegasus Yayınları :: Pegasus Yayinlari, July 2016).
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James Dashner as by Джеймс Дашнер
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