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The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov

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The Clone Codes

Patricia C. McKissack, John McKissack · 173 pages

On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.

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Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

James Tiptree Jr. · 150 pages

After a solar flare damages their ship, three astronauts are rescued by survivors of an Earth that has undergone dramatic change.

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The Marching Morons

C.M. Kornbluth · 42 pages

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The Time Ships

Stephen Baxter · 496 pages

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Time Siege

Wesley Chu · 431 pages

"Having been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future, one in which Earth is a toxic, sparsley inhabited wasteland- the perfect place for a fugitive ex-chronman to hide from authorities. James has enemies. They include the full military might of a benighted solar system ruled by corporate greed and a desperate fear of what James will do ne

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Highway of Eternity

Clifford D. Simak · 289 pages

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The Accidental Time Machine

Joe Haldeman · 278 pages

Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring quantum relationships between gravity and light, his calibrator disappears and reappears one second later. In fact, every time Matt hits the reset button, the machine goes missing twelve times longer.

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The Flight of the Horse

Larry Niven · 212 pages

The 5 Svetz stories are time travel (TT) stories. While time travel stories are often very entertaining and ingenious, many inconsistencies and paradoxes arise with even the simplest considerations. Niven wrote these stories to demonstrate how ridiculous time travel is. They are more than satire, they're hilarious. You won't find more fun TT stories anywhere! "Flash Crowd" is one of his best tel

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Dr. Futurity

Philip K. Dick · 160 pages

Dr. Futurity is a 1960 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is an expansion of his earlier short story "Time Pawn", which first saw publication in the summer 1954 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. Dr. Futurity was first published as a novel by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-421, bound dos-à-dos with John Brunner's Slavers of Space.

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Trillium

Jeff Lemire

"Award-winning and fan favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed loved through space in time in TRILLIUM! It's the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. It's the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru

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All You Zombies

Robert A. Heinlein

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Pathfinder

Orson Scott Card · 592 pages

The book begins with Rigg, a boy that has the strange ability to see the path of any living being, no matter how long ago it existed. He spends his time hunting with his father in the mountains, trapping for valuable pelts. His father is his mentor, and so he has taught Rigg everything he knows. His father dies impaled by a tree, and the man's parting words were to find not Rigg's mother, but his

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A Mutiny in Time

James Dashner · 196 pages

Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa María--to correct history and defeat the SQ.

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The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons · 517 pages

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galax

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Hollow World

Michael J. Sullivan · 371 pages

"Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark upon an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he's willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he'll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and

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Time's Echo

Rysa Walker · 174 pages

Kiernan Dunne abandoned his family ties to help Kate fight the Cyrists, and he's never regretted that for one moment. But he doesn't understand why Kate can't remember that night in 1893 Chicago, when she turned back to face the killer chasing them through the smoky corridors of the World's Fair Hotel. Kate placed the CHRONOS key around his neck and made his eight year old self promise to wear it

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Millennium

John Varley · 260 pages

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Anthem

Ayn Rand · 93 pages

Anthem is a tale of a future dark age of the great “we” – a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all traces of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunte

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar · 209 pages

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The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Ted Chiang · 83 pages

This curious time-travel novella is a gracefully told lesson about accepting fate-or, as better suits this medieval Arabian setting, the will of Allah. A Baghdad merchant discovers an alchemical device that can send a traveler back in time 20 years. Despite the alchemist's warning that "what is made cannot be unmade," and three illustrative tales about others' attempts to alter the past, the merch

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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 Peripheral

William Gibson · 496 pages

Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme. "William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunate

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