Ancient Fire (Danger Boy, Book 1) - Softcover

London Williams, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582460329 ISBN 13: 9781582460321

Publisher: Tricycle Press, 2001

Synopsis

A twelve-year-old boy from the twenty-first century, a girl from medieval Alexandria, Egypt, and a super-intelligent young saurian from an alternative Earth--each for different reasons--join together in travels through time and space. Simultaneous.

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About the Author

Mark London Williams lives in Los Angeles, where he writes articles, comics, plays, and Danger Boy books, and continues to draw inspiration from his two young sons and one old dog. In fact, when his oldest son was a toddler — long before he played his first video game — he ran down the hall one afternoon shouting, "I’m a Danger Boy!" and then quickly added something about dinosaurs. Mark London Williams has been thanking him for that inspiration ever since.
From the Hardcover edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Williams makes his publishing debut with this inventively twisted time travel tale, the first in the Danger Boy series. In 2019, 12-year-old Eli begins his narrative just after his move to Sonoma, Calif., with his father from their hometown of Princeton, N.J., where his father, Sandusky, experimented with "spacetime spheres." There he successfully changed the electrical charges of particles so that he could accelerate them through space and move them backward through the air and through time. After Eli's mother disappeared in an explosion while working on a related experiment, Sandusky abandoned his project, took Eli and headed west. Yet his villainous boss tracks him down at his new residence and insists that he carry on his work with Eli as the subject of his experiments. "I was going to be twirled around in time and history, like a smoothie in a great big cosmic blender," notes the boy. Eli's first-person narrative alternates with those of two other youngsters he meets in his time travels: Clyne, a good-natured dinosaur from another planet who gathers information for a school assignment, and Thea, last librarian in Alexandria, the ancient Egyptian city, accused of being a witch. Williams introduces some provocative ideas about relativity within the context of these distinct and credible characters' narratives. He smoothly conveys the novel's rather complex goings-on, which involve some intriguing machinations about altering the course of history. Kids curious about what lies beyond the Fifth Dimension ("the passageway that connects different universes and different times to each other") will find this a rewarding excursion. Ages 9-12.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Tricycle Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1582460329
• ISBN 13: 9781582460321
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 169