IN TIMES LIKE THESE aka In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventure Literature 2013. Written by Nathan Van Coops. | |||
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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU | |||||||||||
1 | A.S.P. | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
A.S.P. Also known as Anchor Shot Pro, Dr. Quickly's special camera that he uses to track anchor objects. | |||||||||||
2 | The Academy of Temporal Sciences | BBB | Education | Schools-Science/Technology | |||||||
The Academy of Temporal Sciences Also known as ATS, the time travel academy that Guy and Lawrence attend in the future, shut down in the 2160s. | |||||||||||
3 | The Alcubierre Drive | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
The Alcubierre Drive Device that Ben finds details about in Dr. Quickley's journal. | |||||||||||
4 | Carson's Backyard School of Time Travel | BBB | Education | Schools-Science/Technology | |||||||
Carson's Backyard School of Time Travel Joke Carson makes about staying behind with Robbie when the group splits up. | |||||||||||
5 | Channel 8 | BBB | Television | TV News | |||||||
Channel 8 TV station with local news program that reports on serial arsonist / serial killer Elton Stenger. | |||||||||||
6 | Chronometer | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Chronometer Dr. Quickly's watch-like device that he uses to travel through time. | |||||||||||
7 | Degravitizer | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Degravitizer Also known as DG. Device that cleans objects of gravitites. | |||||||||||
8 | The Fuller Hall Debates | BBB | Events | Contests | |||||||
The Fuller Hall Debates Event Lawrence mentions, where Dr. Quickly blew all other major temporal physicists out of the water. | |||||||||||
9 | Gravitizer | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Gravitizer Device that infuses objects with gravitites. | |||||||||||
10 | The Grid | BBB | Media | Websites | |||||||
The Grid Satellite system programming for time travelers that Lawrence tells Ben and his friends about. | |||||||||||
11 | The Journal of Dr Harold Quickly | BBB | Literature | Books | |||||||
The Journal of Dr Harold Quickly Dr. Harold Quickly, temporal physics researcher at the St. Petersburg Temporal Studies Society. | |||||||||||
12 | The Law Offices of Waters and Kramer | BBB | Legal Aid | Law Firms | |||||||
The Law Offices of Waters and Kramer Wooden sign in car that Ben sees when Malcolm takes him to the impound lot. | |||||||||||
13 | MFD | BBB | Technology Products | Electronics | |||||||
MFD Mym's multi-function device for time travelers. | |||||||||||
14 | Minute Mart | BBB | Retail | Gas Stations | |||||||
Minute Mart Gas station where Ben runs into serial arsonist / serial killer Elton Stenger. | |||||||||||
15 | St. Petersburg Temporal Studies Society | BBB | Research Institutes | Institutes | |||||||
St. Petersburg Temporal Studies Society Local institute where Benjamin and his friends go looking for answers in 1985. | |||||||||||
16 | St. Petersburg Times | BBB | Periodicals | Newspaper Times | |||||||
St. Petersburg Times Local newspaper in St. Petersburg. | |||||||||||
17 | Temporal Spectrometer | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Temporal Spectrometer Malcolm's beepy thing, which he uses to track particles displaced in time. | |||||||||||
18 | Titties | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Titties Guy's nickname for time travelers, because one of his school professors used to abbreviate Travelers in Time to T.I.T. | |||||||||||
FICTITIOUS TIMELINE | |||||||||||
19 | August 3, 1984 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
20 | August 10, 1984 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
21 | August 17, 1984 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
22 | August 24, 1984 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
23 | August 31, 1984 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
24 | December 29, 1985 | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |||||||
December 29, 1985 Ben and his friends Carson, Robbie, Blake and Francesca arrive in the past. | |||||||||||
25 | December 30, 1985 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
26 | January 1, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
27 | January 2, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
28 | January 3, 1986 | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |||||||
January 3, 1986 Friday. Ben and his friends meet Dr. Quickly at the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club. | |||||||||||
29 | January 4, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
30 | January 5, 1986 | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |||||||
January 5, 1986 Sunday. Second day of Dr. Quickly time travel lessons for Ben and his friends. | |||||||||||
31 | January 6, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
32 | January 7, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
33 | January 8, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
34 | January 9, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
35 | January 10, 1986 | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |||||||
January 10, 1986 Friday. Ben and his friends regroup at Mr. Cameron's house, deciding to split up. | |||||||||||
36 | January 11, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
37 | December 15, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
38 | December 19, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
39 | December 20, 1986 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
40 | May 2, 1989 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
41 | May 3, 1989 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
42 | June 11, 1989 | Dates | 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." | |||||||||||
43 | June 18, 1989 | Dates | 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." | |||||||||||
44 | May 20, 1990 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
45 | May 21, 1990 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
46 | May 22, 1990 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
47 | November 17, 1999 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
48 | November 18, 1999 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
49 | March 18, 2009 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
50 | June 10, 2009 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
51 | August 20, 2009 | Dates | 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. | |||||||||||
52 | April 10, 2072 | Dates | 21st Century: 30s and up | Events | |||||||
April 10, 2072 Time traveler Valerie Terraveccia in Dr. Quickly's journal places her in Port Hyacinth. | |||||||||||
MAKE BELIEVE MAP | |||||||||||
53 | 9th Street | Map | Transit Routes | Streets | |||||||
9th Street Address of the baseball field where Ben and his friends get transported to the past. | |||||||||||
54 | LVR17 | Map | Worlds | Miscellaneous Places | |||||||
LVR17 Time stream where Ben and his friends never traveled to the past. | |||||||||||
55 | The Neverwhere | Map | Worlds | Miscellaneous Places | |||||||
The Neverwhere According to Benji, Neverwhere is where you go when you stop existing in time. | |||||||||||
OTHER | |||||||||||
56 | Benji | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Benji Benji: Dying ain't the worst thing that can happen to a man. | |||||||||||
57 | Cowboy Bob | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Cowboy Bob Cowboy Bob: The sky never hurt anybody. It's hitting the ground that gets you. | |||||||||||
58 | Dr. Quickly | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Dr. Quickly Dr. Quickly: You can't change the past. You can only choose where you want to live. | |||||||||||
59 | Elton Stenger | Other | Criminals | Serial Killers | |||||||
Elton Stenger Serial arsonist / serial killer transported to 1985 along with Ben and his friends. News Channel 8: "Today was the conclusion of the eight month trial of Elton Stenger, the man accused of murdering fourteen people in a series of vicious car bombings and shootings throughout the state of Florida. Judge Alan Waters ruled today that Stenger be convicted, and serve fourteen consecutive life sentences, a record number for the state of Florida. Stenger is being transported today into federal custody and will be tried in the state of New York for three additional murders." | |||||||||||
60 | Gravitites | Other | Matter | Substances | |||||||
Gravitites Unique particles Dr. Quickly discovers that enable your body and clothing to make the transition through the time gate. | |||||||||||
61 | Journeymen | Other | Criminals | Criminal Organizations | |||||||
Journeymen Mob from the future that cracks down on time travelers. | |||||||||||
62 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Wolf | |||||||
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