The Time Quake
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- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
- 464 pages |
- ISBN 9781439160565 |
- October 2009 |
- Grades 5 - 9 |
- Lexile 940
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MANHATTAN
The sun shone down on the remarkable island of Manhattan, whose thrusting castles, too tall and numerous by far to be the stuff of fairy tales, held gravity in contempt as they vied to be the first to reach the sky. Great alleys of skyscrapers seemed to strut across the city, catching the rays of the dazzling sun and casting vast shadows behind them. It was August, and the air was heavy with an intense, moist heat, and those foolish enough to leave the cool shelter of the giant buildings for the scorching street would soon find their shirts sticking to...
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A SPENT ROSE
The hot summer of 1763 was drawing to a close, and there was something in the air, a quality to the light, that made the residents of Lincoln’s Inn Fields cherish every last warm evening before the first chill of autumn sent them scurrying indoors. Only a few streets away, amidst the raucous cries of street hawkers and the incessant thunder of wagons, starving children begged, soldiers mutilated in the recent war drowned their sorrows in gin, and for the sake of a few coins...
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Q. how did you come to write The Time Quake?
A. For the conclusion of The Gideon Trilogy (called The Time Quake Trilogy in the UK) I wanted a truly compelling hook to sweep me (and hopefully) my readers to the end of the narrative. When re-reading the first volume of the trilogy (The Time Travelers (US)/Gideon the Cutpurse (UK)), I was reminded how horrified one of my eighteenth-century characters was that not only would Britain lose its American colony, but America would also become a superpower. Suddenly it struck me that, as a novelist, I was allowed to pose - and answer - counterfactual questions such as "If a villain wanted to go and back in time and change the history of America - what could he do?" So I sought a historian's counterfactual advice and during a book tour in the US found time to stand on the banks of the Delaware River in New Jersey. Very slowly a story started to take shape...
