Series
Timewars
Simon Hawke · 12 novels · 1984–1991
Simon Hawke's TimeWars series follows an organization of agents assigned to protect history from rogue time travelers who would rewrite it, while treating famous adventure novels as real historical events they must safeguard from the inside. The Ivanhoe Gambit opens the series by dropping its agents into the era of Richard I alongside the events of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, a template repeated across the following eleven books, each pairing the agents with a different classic tale, from Ivanhoe to Dracula and Gulliver's Travels.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Timewars at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s9
- 1990s3
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 58% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book12 of 12 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Pimpernel Plotdarkest · most intense
- The Timekeeper Conspiracybrightest · calmest