Time Trap

by Nicholas Fisk

A teenager in the late 21st century discovers a way to travel in time as a way to escape the dystopian world he inhabits, only to learn that time travel introduces dangers of its own.

Genres: Science Fiction, Childrens, Fiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1976

About the author

(1923–2016), British author of more than forty books and television scripts and a master of science fiction for children. Fisk, whose real name is David Higginbottom, grew up during the Second World War and served in the Royal Air Force. His autobiography, Pig Ignorant (1992), covers the years 1939–1941 and details his life in Soho, a bohemian section of London, where he played jazz in the evenings until he was called to enlist. After the war Fisk worked as a musician, journalist, and publisher. He started writing in the 1960s, and his popularity was at its height in the 1970s and 1980s. His most impressive work, A Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Hair (1982), is a thrilling futuristic novel set at the end of the 22ndcentury. The government is cloning new people and has manufactured a 1940s wartime family whose members are unaware that nothing they know is real. This moving story is a dark representation of the threat posed by technological advancement but is optimistic in its message about the triumph of the human spirit. Fisk's most enduring books include Grinny (1973), which features a technologized extraterrestrial threat in the form of a great- aunt who glows at night, and Trillions (1971), an eerie story about mysterious hard shiny objects that contain an alien intelligence. Monster Maker (1979) was made into a film.

Reviews

[Selso Xisto · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first ever scifi novel! Actually a brilliant little story; got me into this scifi business!

[Sarah Lameche · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fab little book for those in between years.

[Nia · Rating 2 out of 5]

(Read in French: What I could stand of the first pages...)
Today's 'normal' date is: Fri, November 7, 2014 C.E./A.D.
Today's U.N. Date is: Tuesday, November 7, 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era)
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Ce livre (Les prisonniers du temps) cettait écrit en 2eme personne et ça m'a gênait un peu. Le ton du livre non plus à etait tres utile pour moi. Je n'ai reussi à lire, malgre l'importance du sujet, que 14 pages.
Shira
Date Universelle: mardi 7 Novembre 12014 èH (ère Holocène)

[Nick Boldrini · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this as a kid and it was the start of my Nicholas Fisk phase pf reading. Some good Sci fi, well told, and actually reasonably dark and complex for a kids book. In 2079, Dano lives in an ordered sheltered society. At the instigation of his 'Uncle' Lipton, they travel back and forwards in time, using the drug Xtend, with various consequences