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| IN TIMES LIKE THESE aka In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventure Literature 2013. Written by Nathan Van Coops. | |||
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| 1984 - 40 years ago | |||||
| 1 | August 3, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
August 3, 1984 Per Dr. Quickly's journal, time traveler Guy Friday hangs out at the Green Dragon Tavern on Fridays, from August 1984 to 1988. | |||||
| 2 | August 10, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
August 10, 1984 Per Dr. Quickly's journal, time traveler Guy Friday hangs out at the Green Dragon Tavern on Fridays, from August 1984 to 1988. | |||||
| 3 | August 17, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
August 17, 1984 Per Dr. Quickly's journal, time traveler Guy Friday hangs out at the Green Dragon Tavern on Fridays, from August 1984 to 1988. | |||||
| 4 | August 24, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
August 24, 1984 Per Dr. Quickly's journal, time traveler Guy Friday hangs out at the Green Dragon Tavern on Fridays, from August 1984 to 1988. | |||||
| 5 | August 31, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
August 31, 1984 Per Dr. Quickly's journal, time traveler Guy Friday hangs out at the Green Dragon Tavern on Fridays, from August 1984 to 1988. | |||||
| 1985 - 39 years ago | |||||
| 6 | December 29, 1985 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
December 29, 1985 Ben and his friends Carson, Robbie, Blake and Francesca arrive in the past. | |||||
| 7 | December 30, 1985 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
December 30, 1985 Ben and his friends clean up Robbie's grandfather's yard, to repay him for letting them stay in his house. | |||||
| 1986 - 38 years ago | |||||
| 8 | January 1, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 1, 1986 Wednesday. Malcolm takes Ben to the police impound lot to see the GMC Savana prisoner transport van from 2009. | |||||
| 9 | January 2, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 2, 1986 Thursday. Ben's friend Robbie meets his four year old self when his mother visits his grandfather's house. | |||||
| 10 | January 3, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 3, 1986 Friday. Ben and his friends meet Dr. Quickly at the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club. | |||||
| 11 | January 4, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 4, 1986 Saturday. Robbie's family departs on their cruise. Ben and his friends start learning about time zones from Dr. Quickly. | |||||
| 12 | January 5, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 5, 1986 Sunday. Second day of Dr. Quickly time travel lessons for Ben and his friends. | |||||
| 13 | January 6, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 6, 1986 Monday. Third day of Dr. Quickly's time travel lessons for Ben and his friends. Ben travels forward in time 30 seconds for the first time. | |||||
| 14 | January 7, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 7, 1986 Tuesday. Robbie stays behind when his friends return for more lessons with Dr. Quickly. The gang ends the day with drinks at The 49th Street Mining Company. Ben returns to the past after screwing up his future jump, finding himself face to face with a serial killer at the Minute Mart gas station. | |||||
| 15 | January 8, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 8, 1986 Wednesday. Dr. Quickly takes Ben and his friends, minus Robbie, to the suburbs to practice time jumping. Ben screws up, jumping 12 hours back to the night before instead of 30 minutes into the future. He eventually rejoins his friends, before heading back to Mr. Cameron's house. | |||||
| 16 | January 9, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 9, 1986 Thursday. Dr. Quickly continues his time travel lessons for Ben and his friends, until his daughter Mym shows up. Mr. Cameron has a stroke. While at the hospital, Ben and his friends see news report that Dr. Quickly's lab is on fire. Ben and Carson go back in time a few hours to discover the cause of the fire and run into a younger version of Dr. Quickly, as well as serial arsonist / serial killer Elton Stenger. Later, future versions of Ben, Blake and Francesca return to kill Stenger, though their plan falls apart, leaving Blake shot and Francesca taken captive. After blinking away to May of 1999 and being trained by an alternate version of himself, Ben returns to save the day and kill Stenger by highway overpass. | |||||
| 17 | January 10, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 10, 1986 Friday. Ben and his friends regroup at Mr. Cameron's house, deciding to split up. | |||||
| 18 | January 11, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
January 11, 1986 Saturday. Ben, Blake and Francesca head back to the future, traveling to December 15, 1986, using one of Dr. Quickly's anchor objects, a bike handle. Later that day, future versions of them return, along with Dr. Quickly and Mym, after coming back to kill Stenger. Then, they leave, blinking back to their own time stream on March 18, 2009. | |||||
| 19 | December 15, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
December 15, 1986 Monday. Ben, Blake and Francesca time jump from Mr. Cameron's house in January 1986, arriving in New England in December 1986. After Consulting Dr. Quickly's journal, they head to the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston to find time traveler Guy Friday. Advised by the bartender that Guy only visits on Fridays, the gang time jumps to Friday. | |||||
| 20 | December 19, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
December 19, 1986 Friday. Ben, Blake and Francesca meet time traveling alcoholic douchebag Guy Friday, and his brother Lawrence, who tell them about the future. | |||||
| 21 | December 20, 1986 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
December 20, 1986 Ben, Blake and Francesca wake up in Guy and Lawrence's Boston apartment to find they've been robbed - Francesca's backpack and chronometer are missing. The friends fly to Minot, North Dakota, where they rent a car and drive to Scobey, Montana, in search of the toolbox in one of Dr. Quickly's anchor photographs. | |||||
| 1989 - 35 years ago | |||||
| 22 | May 2, 1989 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
May 2, 1989 After using the toolbox anchor at the Montana ranch, Ben, Blake and Francesca arrive in the future, where they meet Mym and Cowboy Bob, who agree to take them to November 17, 1999 on his hot air balloon. | |||||
| 23 | May 3, 1989 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
May 3, 1989 Ben, Blake and Francesca have a brief stopover at Cowboy Bob's Montana ranch, where Connie fixes them a snack and they steal Cowboy Bob's guns as part of their plan to kill Stenger in the past. | |||||
| 24 | June 11, 1989 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
June 11, 1989 While perusing Dr. Quickly's jump anchor cubbies, Ben discovers a copper apple, along with a photograph of a bowl of metallic fruit, labeled "Fiona's dining room - June 11, 1989." | |||||
| 25 | June 18, 1989 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | ||
June 18, 1989 While perusing Dr. Quickly's jump anchor cubbies, Ben discovers a pair of shoes, along with a photograph of a ladies shoe display, labeled "Harrods of London - June 18, 1989." | |||||
| 1990 - 34 years ago | |||||
| 26 | May 20, 1990 | 20th Century: 90s | Events | ||
May 20, 1990 While perusing Dr. Quickly's jump anchor cubbies, Ben discovers a turtle shell, along with a photograph of a living turtle surrounded by rolling desert hills, labeled "10 minute window - For use when all hope is lost.", in Ben's handwriting. Ben later uses the tortoise shell anchor to blinks away from the fire on January 9, 1986 to May 20, 1990, where he finds a small shack in the middle of nowhere. | |||||
| 27 | May 21, 1990 | 20th Century: 90s | Events | ||
May 21, 1990 Ben meets Benji, an older, alternate version of himself, who begins training him to use his chronometer to its full potential. Benji disappears later that day. | |||||
| 28 | May 22, 1990 | 20th Century: 90s | Events | ||
May 22, 1990 Benji returns to finish training Ben. Ben leaves, returning to the day of the fire on January 9, 1986 to kill Stenger. | |||||
| 1999 - 25 years ago | |||||
| 29 | November 17, 1999 | 20th Century: 90s | Events | ||
November 17, 1999 Cowboy Bob, Mym, Ben, Blake and Francesca travel from 1989 to 1999 in Cowboy Bob's hot air balloon, where they spend the night and recharge. | |||||
| 30 | November 18, 1999 | 20th Century: 90s | Events | ||
November 18, 1999 Cowboy Bob, Mym, Ben, Blake and Francesca travel from 1999 to 2009 in Cowboy Bob's hot air balloon. | |||||
| 2009 - 15 years ago | |||||
| 31 | March 18, 2009 | 21st Century: 00s | Events | ||
March 18, 2009 After going back to 1986 to kill Stenger, Ben, Blake, Francesca, Dr. Quickly and Mym blink back to their main time stream in 2009. | |||||
| 32 | June 10, 2009 | 21st Century: 00s | Events | ||
June 10, 2009 Ben's story begins on June 10, 2009 during his softball game, when a lightning strike during a thunder storm transports Ben and his friends back to December 1985. After an adventure through the past, the gang returns later that night to a changed timeline. | |||||
| 33 | August 20, 2009 | 21st Century: 00s | Events | ||
August 20, 2009 Ben, Blake and Francesca return to Cowboy Bob's Montana ranch after their failed attempt to get back to where they started on June 10, 2009, where they learn about different time streams and the fractal universe. | |||||
| 2072 - 48 years from now | |||||
| 34 | April 10, 2072 | 21st Century: 30s and up | Events | ||
April 10, 2072 Time traveler Valerie Terraveccia in Dr. Quickly's journal places her in Port Hyacinth. | |||||
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