Infinity Ring 1
A Mutiny in Time
by James Dashner
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.
“A Mutiny in Time” by James Dashner (Scholastic,
August 2012).