TimeWars is a series of twelve science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 paperback books created and written by author Simon Hawke

Simon Hawke

Simon Hawke is an American author of mainly science fiction and fantasy novels. He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the penname "J. D...

 beginning in 1984. The story involves the adventures of an organization tasked with protecting history from being changed by time travelers. In the world of the series, many people and events considered fictional are historical, and vice versa; the action of each book in the series weaves in and out of the events of a famous work of literature. For example, in the first book in the series, time travelers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe is a historical fiction novel by Sir Walter Scott in 1819, and set in 12th-century England. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages," while...

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Books

• The Ivanhoe Gambit (1984)
• The Timekeeper Conspiracy (1984)
• The Pimpernel Plot (1984)
• The Zenda Vendetta (1985)
• The Nautilus Sanction (1985)
• The Khyber Connection (1986)
• The Argonaut Affair (1987)
• The Dracula Caper (1988)
• The Lilliput Legion (1989)
• The Hellfire Rebellion (1990)
• The Cleopatra Crisis (1990)
• The Six-Gun Solution (1991)