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Premise labels used: time machine inheritance, alternate selves, time travel paradoxes, identity crisis, self-discovery, self-interaction, multiple timelines, power over history, limited time travel, time travel consequences

Setting labels used: time travel, parallel universes, alternate timelines, multiple realities, historical settings, contemporary setting, past and future

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UnHappenings

Edward Aubry · 2015

A young man whose life keeps rewriting itself chases the cause of his erased past and a risky future love.

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Premise labels: time travel · retroactive change · alternate timeline · butterfly effect · lost relationships · doomed love · future self · time paradox · personal stakes · memory of original timeline

Setting labels: future period · present-adjacent future · time travel universe · alternate reality · academic setting · laboratory setting

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Distance: 0.1095

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Redeemed

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2015 · The Missing

A final time-travel crisis forces Jonah’s new twin to navigate family, identity, and a dangerous future.

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Premise labels: time travel · twin sibling · family rescue · future danger · identity confusion · alternate dimensions

Setting labels: future · historical periods · alternate dimensions · time travel universe · multiple centuries

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Distance: 0.1121

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The Gordian Protocol

David Weber, Jacob Holo · 2019 · The Gordian Division

A history teacher pulled into alternate-timeline chaos must help decide which universe survives a looming temporal catastrophe.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate timelines · multiverse · parallel universes · historical divergence · time knot · universe survival · moral dilemma · choose worlds · research mission · memory conflict

Setting labels: alternate history · near future · future history · thirtieth century · twentieth century · twenty-first century · wartime history · parallel universes · multiverse · academic setting · university · modern America

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Distance: 0.1454

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Кубик

Саша Козлов · 2024

Six linked sci-fi stories in shifting realities slowly reveal a hidden pattern, forcing readers to solve the puzzle.

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Premise labels: parallel realities · alternative timelines · future variants · time fracture · memory loss · knowledge of future · last human · apocalyptic isolation · hidden connection · puzzle structure · shared characters

Setting labels: alternate reality · dark future · post-apocalyptic world · surreal reality · multiple worlds · time-bent setting

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Distance: 0.1481

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The Clay Lion

Amalie Jahn · 2013 · The Clay Lion

A grieving teen uses a once-only time trip to try to save her brother, risking the past, present, and her future.

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Premise labels: time travel · save a loved one · prevent death · grief journey · second chances · family crisis · change the past · fate versus free will

Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel universe · suburban setting · contemporary setting · near-future setting · government-regulated time travel · within-lifespan travel

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Distance: 0.1499

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The Time Traveler's Almanac

Ann VanderMeer, Jeff Vandermeer · 2014

A massive, themed anthology of time travel stories and essays spanning classics, contemporary pieces, and many eras.

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Premise labels: time travel anthology · genre sampler · literary time travel · future and past journeys · curated classics and contemporary stories

Setting labels: past and future · across historical eras · time-displaced reality · multiple fictional worlds

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Distance: 0.1503

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In Times Like These

Nathan Van Coops · 2013 · In Times Like These

A group of friends is hurled into the past and must master time travel to get home before danger catches them.

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Premise labels: accidental time travel · stranded in past · return home · time travel training · time travel rules · parallel timelines · mysterious deaths · future threat

Setting labels: 1980s · 2009 · Florida · time travel universe · alternate timelines · parallel realities · present and past

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Distance: 0.1533

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The Day After Never

Nathan Van Coops · 2016 · In Times Like These

A fractured time traveler must reunite with himself to stop a cult and save the future from collapsing.

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Premise labels: time travel adventure · alternate selves · missing self · cult threat · parallel worlds · save the future · rescue mission · time paradox · romance subplot

Setting labels: future society · past present future · parallel worlds · multiverse · time travel labs · dreamlike world · time purgatory · ancient rituals · space and time · synthetic-human society

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Distance: 0.1535

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Rick and Morty, Vol. 1

Zac Gorman · 2015 · Rick and Morty (2015)

A collection of off-screen, dimension-hopping misadventures with Rick, Morty, and the rest of the family.

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Premise labels: time travel · multiverse · parallel universe · space adventure · family chaos · mad scientist · dimensional travel · cosmic misadventure · alternate versions

Setting labels: outer space · across time · multiple dimensions · multiverse · alternate universe · science-fiction world

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Distance: 0.1560

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Timestorm

Julie Cross · 2014 · Tempest

Trapped in the future, a time-traveling teen must stop a deadly experiment and decide what he’s willing to lose.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate timelines · future trapped · escape plan · final battle · family stakes · romantic conflict · survival

Setting labels: distant future · alternate timeline · multiple timelines · dystopian future · contained setting · science-fiction future

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Distance: 0.1566

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薄雾 Mist

微风几许, 微風幾許

A memory-bound recorder joins a time-travel task force and gets pulled into dangerous missions, paradoxes, and slow-burn love.

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Premise labels: time travel · memory · mystery mission · team assignment · time correction · parallel worlds · chronological puzzle · government task force · space-time anomaly · recorded history

Setting labels: future world · time travel system · parallel universes · space-time missions · government bureau · scientific speculation · post-apocalyptic elements · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1581

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All You Zombies

Robert A. Heinlein · 1959

A bartender's conversation with a troubled patron unfolds into a compact, twisty time-paradox about identity and origin.

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Premise labels: time paradox · time loop · identity paradox · causality puzzle · self-origin mystery · predestination paradox · bar conversation

Setting labels: bar · time travel · mid-20th century · science fictional reality · temporal agency

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Distance: 0.1590

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