- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (23 Feb 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747231974
- ISBN-13: 978-0747231974
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,509,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (23 Feb 1989)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0747231974
ISBN-13: 978-0747231974
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In "The Kyber Connection," sixth of Simon Hawke's 12 "Time Wars" novels, the Time Commandos find themselves dealing with a serious "Timestream Split" against the backdrop of a historicaly real incident from the early life of Winston Churchill and some of Rudyard Kipling's fictional characters.
The "Time Wars" stories are a funny and well written series about a group of Time Commandos whose mission is to prevent other time travellers from causing damage to history.
In most of the books up to this point, the Time Commandos had been up against rogue individuals or groups of terrorists who are trying to subert the past for their own purposes. However, at the climax of "The Pimpernel plot" it became evident that the error they were trying to correct had resulted in two alternative futures coming into being, and the Time Commandos were up against rival agents from a parallel timeline trying to protect their future.
From the beginning of "The Kyber Connection" it appears likely that another and much more serious timestream split has occurred and that our reality is at war with another timeline. The Time Commandos now face their most deadly enemies - themselves ...
All 12 books in this series pay humorous homage to a great work of literature, to a set of historical events, or both. In the historical note at the end of this book, Hawke explains how much of this book is based on some extraordinary real events.
The books are best read in the correct sequence, as follows (I have put the name of the literary work and/or historical events associated with each book in brackets afterwards)
1) The Ivanhoe Gambit (Ivanhoe)
2) The Timekeeper Conspiracy (The Three Musketeers)
3) The Pimpernel Plot (French Revolution & terror/Scarlet Pimpernel)
4) The Zenda Vendetta (The Prisoner of Zenda)
5) The Nautilus Sanction (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
6) The Kyber Connection (works of Rudyard Kipling/early life of Churchill)
7) The Argonaut Affair (Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece)
8) The Dracula Caper (Sherlock Homes meets Bram Stoker's Count Dracula)
9) The Lilliput Legion (Gulliver's travels)
10) The Hellfire Rebellion (American War of Independence/Hellfire Club)
11) The Cleopatra Crisis (Caesar and Cleopatra)
12) The Six-gun solution (Gunfight at the OK Corral)
Not terribly serious but very good fun: I can recommend this series.
The "Time Wars" stories are a funny and well written series about a group of Time Commandos whose mission is to prevent other time travellers from causing damage to history.
In most of the books up to this point, the Time Commandos had been up against rogue individuals or groups of terrorists who are trying to subert the past for their own purposes. However, at the climax of "The Pimpernel plot" it became evident that the error they were trying to correct had resulted in two alternative futures coming into being, and the Time Commandos were up against rival agents from a parallel timeline trying to protect their future.
From the beginning of "The Kyber Connection" it appears likely that another and much more serious timestream split has occurred and that our reality is at war with another timeline. The Time Commandos now face their most deadly enemies - themselves ...
All 12 books in this series pay humorous homage to a great work of literature, to a set of historical events, or both. In the historical note at the end of this book, Hawke explains how much of this book is based on some extraordinary real events.
The books are best read in the correct sequence, as follows (I have put the name of the literary work and/or historical events associated with each book in brackets afterwards)
1) The Ivanhoe Gambit (Ivanhoe)
2) The Timekeeper Conspiracy (The Three Musketeers)
3) The Pimpernel Plot (French Revolution & terror/Scarlet Pimpernel)
4) The Zenda Vendetta (The Prisoner of Zenda)
5) The Nautilus Sanction (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
6) The Kyber Connection (works of Rudyard Kipling/early life of Churchill)
7) The Argonaut Affair (Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece)
8) The Dracula Caper (Sherlock Homes meets Bram Stoker's Count Dracula)
9) The Lilliput Legion (Gulliver's travels)
10) The Hellfire Rebellion (American War of Independence/Hellfire Club)
11) The Cleopatra Crisis (Caesar and Cleopatra)
12) The Six-gun solution (Gunfight at the OK Corral)
Not terribly serious but very good fun: I can recommend this series.
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Good Sci-fi fun
7 July 2007
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The Time Wars series by Simon Hawke is an interesting, though rather silly concept - settling current international conflicts by sending soldiers to the past to fight in already-fought wars. Nevertheless, the adventure involved in characters going back to fix time when somebody breaks the rules and changes history, is worth suspending disbelief.
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