This has probably been posted before but.....

The time period of The Bartimaeus Trilogy kinda confused me. The info thingy on the book said it was set in modern London.. which makes since, they have computers, cars, etc in the book. But the British Empire is still up and going and the Revolutionary war is going on.. Patter@confuzzled

Does alternate timeline mean anything to you?

It's a magical society... it's around the year 2000, but that doesn't mean that events are all the same as they are in our universe.

Post wrote:Does alternate timeline mean anything to you?

no :D

I'm sure it's perfectly modern, just in a different world history. For instance, the colonists in the Americas probably have computers too. They just never revolted until now, the modern time. Do you get it?

Makes you think, what would happen if the British won the Revolution?

We wouldn't have Bush in charge of the US?

Here we go.

No, I mean that England might still be insanely powerfull, and we would have America.

Insanely powerful? Their real source of power was India and the African states. They were to go one way or another.

That doesn't mean England wasn't powerful.
Is there specific year recorded in the books? I would think late 20th century to early 21st.

Jonathan said 'modern' somewhere.

I'm pretty sure he said somewhere that it's early 21st century.

I hope so. That was one of the many charms of the books.

When i read the books i naturally think of the 1800's :) makes them more enjoyable to me... I kinda just ignore the computer and car remarks. Idk how but i didnt really realize that it wasnt in the 1800's until the third book. Although it mentions cars all the time in the others :krim:

That's strange. I had the same expieriance with the first Artemis Fowl book.

I like how they are set in 2000s but are so ambiguous that you can set them any time in the modern world, well ok there are a few continual problems, but still.

Apollo wrote: That's strange. I had the same expieriance with the first Artemis Fowl book.

How could you think Artemis Fowl was in teh 1800's? It's completely based on technology.

I said the first one. Mostly because the back of the book, at the mention of faires. About halfway through the first chapter I realised how stupid I was.

think the 1700s, with 2005 tech

Late 1800s with 2005 tech sounds more like it.

I didn't pay attention to timelines, I always pictured it as about a decade ago...