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Necessary Evil

Ian Tregillis

"12 May 1940. Westminster, London, England: the early days of World War II. Again. Raybould Marsh, one of "our" Britain's best spies, has travelled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from the Cthulhu-like monsters who have been observing our species from space and have already destroyed Marsh's timeline. In order to accomplish this, he must remove all traces of t

Alternate HistoryTime TravelParallel UniverseWorld War II
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The Steel Tsar

Michael Moorcock · 156 pages

Alternate HistoryTime TravelParallel UniverseScience Fiction
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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

Parallel UniverseTime TravelScience FictionWitty Banter
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The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov

Time TravelAlternate HistoryParallel UniverseScience Fiction
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Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Exodus

Terrance Dicks · 240 pages

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Weapons of Choice

John Birmingham · 483 pages

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River of Bones

Taylor Anderson · 479 pages

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Rewinder

Brett Battles · 251 pages

Denny was born into one of the lowest rungs of society, but his bleak fortunes abruptly change when the mysterious Upjohn Institute recruits him to be a Rewinder, a verifier of personal histories. The job at first sounds like it involves researching old books and records, but Denny soon learns it's far from it. A Rewinder's job is to observe history. In person.--from back cover.

Time TravelAlternate HistoryScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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The Proteus Operation

James P. Hogan · 480 pages

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling · 352 pages

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The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde · 374 pages

The Eyre Affair Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton

Alternate HistoryTime TravelWitty BanterScience Fiction
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Redshirts

John Scalzi · 320 pages

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2)

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All Our Wrong Todays

Elan Mastai · 400 pages

Time TravelParallel UniverseScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Bring the Jubilee

Ward Moore · 194 pages

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Marvel 1602

Neil Gaiman · 248 pages

Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers. The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes have been transplanted to the Elizabethan era; faced with

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Firestorm

Taylor Anderson · 443 pages

Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS "Walker" find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect.

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Doorways in the Sand

Roger Zelazny · 189 pages

College CampusWitty BanterScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Lest Darkness Fall

L. Sprague de Camp · 208 pages

Archeologist Martin Padway is visiting Rome in Italy. He is struck by lightning and catapulted back to Rome of the sixth century A.D. The Western Roman Empire has fallen to the Goths, and civilization teetering on the brink of falling into the Dark Ages. As Mysterious Martinus, can Martin win through the life and death perils of religious controversy, political intrigue and international diplomacy

Alternate HistoryTime TravelScience FictionMale Lead
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Invictus

Ryan Graudin · 480 pages

"A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling"--

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The Cross-Time Engineer

Leo Frankowski

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Strange Attractors

William Sleator · 177 pages

Max finds himself in possession of a time travel device which is eagerly sought by two desperate men, the scientist who invented it and the scientist's alter ego from a different timeline.

Time TravelParallel UniverseScience FictionMad Scientist
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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick · 249 pages

The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, and concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian

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