Day of the Predator
- by Alex Scarrow
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Young Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Day of the Predator by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, August 2010).
A time-travel accident strands a Timeriders agent, a group of kids, and a disguised assassin in the Cretaceous era.
—Gareth Gordon
Around the patches of jungle, herds of huge beasts Liam couldn't begin to name grazed lazily in the late-afternoon sun. Between the slowly meandering groups of giants, smaller packs of fleet-footed beasts flocked and weaved in an endless zizzagging race.
'My God,' whispered Kelly. 'This is really . . . just . . . incredible.'
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- Time Periods
- Age of Reptiles (252 Ma to 66 Ma: Mesozoic/Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous): The Cretaceous era in particular.
- Timeline Models
- Causal Loop: The Timerider mentor is an older version of one of the recruits.
- 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.
- Evolving or De-Evolving as a Result of Time Travel: The Timeriders accidentally teach dinosaurs to build and use tools, which allows them to survive extinction events.
- Fix Your Time Travel Screw-Up!: The Timeriders leave messages in fossils to arrange their rescue, but later they must go back and destory them to erase the evidence of humans in the Cretaceous era.
- Intertemporal Communication Systems between Time Travel Agents/Offices/etc.: The Timeriders receive a message from the Timeriders HQ in the future via tachyon transmission.
- Never Change the Past!
- Personal Message Left for Someone in the Future: The Timeriders leave messages in fossils to arrange their rescue.
- The Question is “When?”
- Time Cops: the Timerider agency
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: Traveling through time slowly causes internal damage, manifesting as cancer, premature aging, or radiation sickness.
- Real-World Tags
- 9/11: The Timeriders' base is hidden in New York, looping through 9/10 and 9/11 endlessly.
- Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs: The Timeriders use cyborgs to handle dangerous missions and guard agents.
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- Day of the Predator by Alex Scarrow (Puffin, August 2010).