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by: Diana Wynne Jones
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780064473514
ISBN: 0064473511
Label: HarperTrophy
Manufacturer: HarperTrophy
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: February 01, 2002
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Sales Rank: 698852
Studio: HarperTrophy
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Product Description:
Time City is built on a patch of time and space outside history. It is full of wonders and haunted by 'time ghosts,' but it is nearly worn out and doomed to destruction.
In September 1939, Vivian Smith is on a train, being evacuated from London, when she is kidnapped by two boys from Time City, Jonathan and Sam. They mistakenly think she is the mysterious Time Lady disguised as a child. Only the Time Lady can wake the founder of the city, Faber John, from his age-long sleep, and only he can save the city.
Vivian wants to get home; Jonathan and Sam want her to help them in their quest through the ages of history to save Time City. Meanwhile, someone seems to be tampering with history, changing it over and over, complicating everything. When Faber John is at last aroused, Time City's and Vivian's dilemmas are resolved in ways that are as satisfying as they are unexpected.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Nowhere near as good as the Chrestomanchi series - sadly.
I am the type of reader that finds an author I like, and then I order everything I can get my hands on that the author has written. My thinking is that if I like the writing style of the author in one book, I am likely to enjoy it in another.
USUALLY this turns out to be true. (Orson Scott Card, Robert Sawyer, Richard K. Morgan, David Brin, etc...) but sometimes a book pops up in an author's bibliography that just doesn't excite me.
Time City is definitely one of those ... Read More
Rating:  - "Why Can't I Get Back to the War and have Some Peace?!"
"A Tale of Time City" is a little different from Diana Wynne Jones's usual fare - it is not fantasy but science-fiction, though apart from that distinction there is the same wry humour, complicated storylines, quirky characters and original invention.
Time City is a place existing outside of space and time where the progress of time is watched over by the inhabitants, to make sure it progresses normally. But Time City is slowly running down, (helped along with the tampering of rouge ... Read More
Rating:  - My favorite sci fi book of all time?
While most of DWJ's books are fantasy, this one is pure sci-fi: there is no magic, just plenty of 23rd century butter pies (cold on the outside, warm and gooey inside: I wish the 23rd century would hurry up so that I can try one!).
This is the story of Vivian Smith, a girl who is being evacuated from London because of WWII. Because of a mixup with names, she gets kidnapped by two boys from Time City, a metropolis located outside of time where the officials monitor time and make sure it ... Read More
Rating: - It wasn't that great
This book started out okay but by the time I was half way through it I was wishing it would end. There were too many characters and the time travelling was just confusing. When I got to the end of Novel I was so thoroughly confused that the only thing I could say about this book was that I wasn't very good. I've read a whole bunch of other books by Diana Wynne JOnes and they were all alot better than this one. So instead of buying this one go look at the Dalemark Quartet, The chrestomanci series and ... Read More
Rating: - A Tale of Time City
A Tale of Time City
By Diana Wynne Jones, Published by HarperTrophy (January 22, 2002).
Vivian Smith was being evacuated along with all of the other children in London to "the Country" because World War II had just broken out. When she got off the train she was pulled into the greatest adventure of her life. When she got off the train she was kidnapped by an older boy named Jonathan Lee Walker, who claims to be her long lost cousin. In a space outside of time, there is a city. Placed ... Read More
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