THE CHRONOTHON: A TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE Literature 2015. 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 | Academy of Temporal Sciences | BBB | Research Institutes | Institutes | |||||||
Academy of Temporal Sciences Also known as ATS. | |||||||||||
3 | Allied Scientific Coalition of Time Trav... | BBB | Organizations | Professional Organizations | |||||||
Allied Scientific Coalition of Time Travelers Also known as ASCOTT. They're what you might call the leadership of the time travel community. | |||||||||||
4 | Ambrose Cybergenics | BBB | Corporations | Technology Companies | |||||||
Ambrose Cybergenics Chronothon sponsor that holds the oiiginal patent for tracing, the process of reading time travelers' timestream signatures from the gravitites in their bodies. | |||||||||||
5 | The Ascension Gun | BBB | Goods | Sporting Goods | |||||||
The Ascension Gun The time traveler's high tech version of a grappling hook. | |||||||||||
6 | Bellini & Phillips | BBB | Financial Companies | Financial Services | |||||||
Bellini & Phillips Mob bank with whom Ben unknowingly signed a contract. | |||||||||||
7 | Chronometer | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Chronometer Dr. Quickly's time travel device, worn on wrist like a watch. | |||||||||||
8 | Degravitizer | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Degravitizer One of Dr. Quickly's inventions that removes gravitites from inanimate objects. | |||||||||||
9 | Digi-Com | BBB | Corporations | Technology Companies | |||||||
Digi-Com Chronothon sponsor. | |||||||||||
10 | Digi-lenses | BBB | Technology Products | Audiovisual Devices | |||||||
Digi-lenses Cpmputer glasses that Milo is wearing when Ben meets him, which he calls "old tech", though he grew up in the 2140s. | |||||||||||
11 | The Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly | BBB | Literature | Biographies | |||||||
The Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly Dr. Quickly's journal, which he gave to Ben in the first book of the series, In Times Like These. | |||||||||||
12 | McSweeney's Traveling Circus | BBB | Amusement | Circuses | |||||||
McSweeney's Traveling Circus Circus in Pucketsville. | |||||||||||
13 | Organism Gun | BBB | Weapons | Guns | |||||||
Organism Gun Jonah's dad's invention that makes people feel like they're having thirty-minute organisms, also known as orgasms, in their minds. | |||||||||||
14 | St. Petersburg Temporal Studies Society | BBB | Research Institutes | Institutes | |||||||
St. Petersburg Temporal Studies Society Dr. Quickly's institute. | |||||||||||
15 | T.P.T. | BBB | Technology Products | Communication Devices | |||||||
T.P.T. Tachyon Pulse Transmitter. It's like a telephone for time travelers. | |||||||||||
16 | Temprovibe 5 | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Temprovibe 5 Viznir's chronometer. It's got much faster grid link times than the previous models, but it functions gridless as well. It also has a built-in spectrometer for reading the timestream you're in and it will auto-lock if you're not making good contact with your anchor. | |||||||||||
17 | Time Gate | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Time Gate Geo takes Ben through his first time gate on his way to his mother's house. | |||||||||||
18 | United Machine | BBB | Corporations | Technology Companies | |||||||
United Machine Chronothon sponsor. | |||||||||||
19 | Wittgenstein Maneuver | BBB | Transportation | Time Travel | |||||||
Wittgenstein Maneuver Time travel technique. | |||||||||||
FICTITIOUS TIMELINE | |||||||||||
20 | August 29, 1966 | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |||||||
August 29, 1966 Ben and Mym attend the Beatles' last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. | |||||||||||
21 | July 16, 1969 | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |||||||
July 16, 1969 Ben and Mym watch the launch of the Apollo 11 rocket in Florida. | |||||||||||
22 | May 18, 1973 | Dates | 20th Century: 70s | Events | |||||||
May 18, 1973 Ben and Mym arrive in Brooklyn 1973, where Mym picks up a pair of purple suede roller skates at a thrift store. The couple head to Italian restaurant Angelina's on Mulberry Street, but a vagrant stumbles into Ben, dragging him into the future. | |||||||||||
23 | May 19, 1973 | Dates | 20th Century: 70s | Events | |||||||
May 19, 1973 Geo picks Ben up and takes him to his mother's house, where Ben agrees to participate in the Chronothon. | |||||||||||
MAKE BELIEVE MAP | |||||||||||
24 | The Neverwhere | Map | Worlds | Miscellaneous Places | |||||||
The Neverwhere Where time travelers end up when jumping without an anchor. | |||||||||||
25 | Pucketsville | Map | Urban Areas | Cities-U.S. | |||||||
Pucketsville Small town, current location of McSweeney's Traveling Circus. | |||||||||||
OTHER | |||||||||||
26 | Gravitite | Other | Matter | Substances | |||||||
Gravitite Particles that exist free of time. Once they become a part of you, time is forced to release its hold on your destiny. | |||||||||||
27 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Wolf | |||||||
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