Reading order · 3 books · 2019 · Set in London
Impossible Times Books in Order
Impossible Times is a short trilogy about a teenage maths genius in 1980s London and a group of Dungeons and Dragons players caught up in time travel.
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Series facts
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 2019
- First book
- One Word Kill
- Latest
- Dispel Illusion (2019)
- Setting
- Set in London
The reading order
Every Impossible Times book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
3 books · Set in London
- 1One Word Kill2019With Nick HayesIn 1986 London, Nick Hayes, a teenage maths genius who has just been diagnosed with a serious illness, meets a mysterious man who claims to be his future self, and his Dungeons and Dragons group is drawn into danger.Buy on Amazon
- 2Limited Wish2019With Nick HayesIn 1986 Cambridge, young physicist Nick Hayes is drawn deeper into the paradoxes of time, in the second book of Impossible Times.Buy on Amazon
- 3Dispel Illusion2019With Nick HayesNick Hayes knows an accident awaits him in 2011 unless he can change his fate, and a discovery in 1992 suggests he has been lying to himself.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read One Word Kill, Limited Wish and Dispel Illusion in order.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Nick Hayes |
|---|---|
| 1 One Word Kill | LLead |
| 2 Limited Wish | LLead |
| 3 Dispel Illusion | LLead |
Characters in the Impossible Times books
1 character from Mark Lawrence’s chart, with the number of Impossible Times books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Nick HayesTeenage maths genius in 1980s London | 3 | One Word Kill 2019 |