Time Riders
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| Author | Alex Scarrow |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Puffin Books |
| Published | 4 February 2010 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Published | February 4, 2010 |
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| Published | August 5, 2010 |
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| Published | February 3, 2011 |
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| Published | July 14, 2011 |
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| Published | February 2, 2012 |
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| Published | August 2, 2012 |
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| Published | February 7, 2013 |
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| Published | August 1, 2013 |
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| Published | November 6, 2014 |
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TimeRiders is a series of teen science fiction novels written by Alex Scarrow. It has nine books and is currently published by Puffin Books.
Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, ‘Take my hand . . .’ But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren’t rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose – to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. That’s why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us. To stop time travel from destroying the world . . .
The novels revolve around three teens who are recruited by an agency known as 'The Agency' moments before their deaths. The Agency was set up to protect the established set of events throughout history and to fix it if it is tampered with. They operate from their field office underneath an archway of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City in a two-day 'Time Bubble', on 10 and 11 September 2001. Each novel revolves around a major change in the historical timeline and the team must work with each other to fix it with the help of their 'support units' – cyborgs who can mimic human behaviour. Later in the series the characters move to a second base under the Holborn Viaduct in Victorian London.
The series follows five protagonists:
The series also focuses on eight other major and minor characters, some of which are recurring:
There is also a base team (or the original base team) which is featured largely in TimeRiders: City of Shadows:
In the book the newly recruited team are thrown into the thick of it. Before they've had a chance to fully train. Paul Kramer, a brilliant physicist from the future, has plans to alter the past – to lead Nazi Germany to victory over the Allied Forces and to ensure an ordered World Reich under his rule. Liam and the team’s support unit, Bob, are sent back in time to try and stop Kramer’s plans, whilst in the present, Maddy and Sal witness New York altered by the arrival of a time wave, forming a terrifying new reality – an apocalyptic landscape of ruins and savage mutated descendants of a nuclear holocaust caused by Kramer going insane and detonating some weapon of mass destruction. At the end of the novel Liam and Bob go to Obersalzberg, and stop Kramer from altering history. A firefight ensues, in which Bob is fatally injured, and Kramer & his cohorts die after being killed by the guards stationed outside Obersalzberg. Liam retrieves the AI from inside Bob's head, and returns to 2001 with the timeline restored.
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