#time riders

[weird-middle-school-books]

wow I’m sad you guys

I’m re-reading Timeriders (amazing series if you haven’t read it) and I wanted to find the fandom, but there’s barely any.  Half the posts under the Tomeriders tag is just people going “is there anyone here?”  It’s like discovering a ruin filled with “x person was here” on the walls.  I mean the first book came out more than 10 years ago but still?  I’d expected something.  

Anyways, if you ever want to talk to me about Timeriders you can, seriously.

[sleepingobsidian]

So I watched

Tomb of the Sea

Time Riders

The lost Tomb

The lost Tombs 2

Are they supposed to leave me with more questions than answers or did I miss a part?

[soemthingsparkly]

I wanna write a lil ficlet between idk maybe the first TimeRider's book and Day of The Predator or maybe DOTP and The Doomsday Code where Liam is lying on his bed being Traumatised™️ and actually having a moment of reflection of the horrors he's been through. I just think it would be nice to see that. We got a little at the end of Day of The Predator, but I want more.

And maybe something from the girls' perspectives, too. Like something during the lull between big missions.

[klicksalt]

Liam O'Connor appreciation post

That's it

That's the post

[semper-legens]

23. Time Riders, by Alex Scarrow

Owned?: Yes Page count: 425 My summary: Three young people are pulled from the brink of death - the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, a plane crash in 2010, and a building fire in 2026 - to become Time Riders, guardians of the time stream making sure that time travel doesn’t destroy the world. Just after they are recruited, there is a massive shift, to a fascist-ruled America where individuality is suppressed. Can they figure out what went wrong and fix it - or will their meddling cause a worse future to unfold? My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

Back to the world of YA, and one from my personal bookshelves - I’ve been meaning to reread this for a while! I absolutely loved this when I was younger, and the way that the story develops is really interesting to me. I’ve been meaning to revisit it as an adult for a while, just to see what I think.

Let’s start with the characters. We’ve got Liam from 1912, Maddy from 2010, and Sal from 2026, along with Foster, the old man that recruits them, and Bob, a clone with an AI in his brain who acts as muscle. Right off the bat, I can tell you that I love all of these idiots. Some get more focus than others - poor Sal gets kind of shafted in this first book, though later ones give her a bit more focus. It’s weird that, given that this came out in 2010, Liam seems to be more of the audience-insert; although given that Liam is the one we spend longer with as he actually goes back in time, that makes a degree of sense. One thing that bugs me about them is how little general knowledge they seem to have - it makes sense for Liam, but Maddy doesn’t know about JFK’s assassination for some reason, and they have to explain other concepts I would have thought to be common knowledge. I get this is for the reader’s benefit, but come on, I knew more than that as a teenager. Otherwise, though, they’re pretty strong characters - Liam is charming and funny, Maddy is responsible and practical. Sal is the emotional heart of the team, and is a bit younger - I do dislike that a lot of her writing is very ‘adult-man-writing-a-teen-girl’. It’s not awful, just a bit cringey.

The timeline of this world is very rigid. Time travel is invented in the 2060s, the world is already pretty much in ruins by 2026. And, apparently, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the 45th president of the USA. Can’t decide if I want this timeline or the real one. It’s a bold move, not leaving anything really to ambiguity, and opens up questions of ‘why do they want to preserve this shitty future’ that become a running theme of the series. A lot is set up here that I know will pay off later, and it’s very fun to catch the little bits of foreshadowing sprinkled throughout.

One criticism I had was how fast-paced the novel is. It works for the sections with Maddy, Sal, and Foster in the apocalyptic future, but with Bob and Liam in the past it does skip around a bit too much for my tastes. There’s time-skips of months, which leads to the alternate history not being as developed as perhaps it should be.

Speaking of underdeveloped, I didn’t think much of the antagonists of this either. Their plot is (spoilers!) to go back to Nazi Germany and make it so the Nazis won the war, so they can take over the world and ensure that the shitty, overpopulated, under-resourced, polluted future doesn’t occur. I think this would have been a lot stronger were it not for the Nazi thing? Like, they sided with the Nazis, ergo they are evil, but they never really had a strong reason for that to be Plan A. They could conceivably have taken over the world at a number of points in history, why the Nazis specifically? It just felt a bit lazy. Other than that, though, their plot is compelling, with the moral dilemma of whether it’s acceptable to change history in order to save it, with no idea of what the new future will actually hold.

This feels like a lot of complaining. Ultimately I don’t think any of the flaws of this novel drag it completely down. It’s still a fun, surprisingly complex YA series, and I’m looking forward to reading the rest!

[casual-violinist-fangirl]

THERE’S GOING TO BE A 10TH TIME RIDERS BOOK EXCUSE ME WHILST I SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST 😭😭😭

[hello-murderous-mr-fizzles]

Okay y’all , so I’m not a great artist but the lack of time riders fan art was killin me

Presenting Maddy Carter who should’ve died in 2010 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hit me up if y’all want more character done

Thinking of either Bob or Liam next? Thoughts?

[gingerlibrum]

If you like books about time travel I highly reccommend this series! I came across this first book a few years ago and absolutely fell in love. It’s a ten book series, and I still have yet to read the last one, but they are definately worth the read. A short synopsis:

Three teenagers are pulled from different points in time by a mysterious man named Foster right before they are about to die. Liam, on the Titanic in 1912; Maddy on a plane in 2010; and Sal after a terrorist attack in 2026. They are pulled into a time bubble on the day of September 11th, 2001 and have to be on the lookout for any small changes in the timeline. Their first assignment is to stop a physicist from the future from leading Nazi victory in World War II.

I already said it, but I love this series so much. Read it!