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UnHappenings

Edward Aubry

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

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

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The Man Who Folded Himself

David Gerrold · 2003

A young man inherits a time belt and discovers time travel means meeting, changing, and becoming versions of himself.

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Premise labels: 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: time travel · parallel universes · alternate timelines · multiple realities · historical settings · contemporary setting · past and future

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Distance: 0.1095

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The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov · 1971

A time-traveling fixer falls in love and risks unraveling the system that edits humanity’s past for the greater good.

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Premise labels: time travel · timeline manipulation · controlled history · hidden organization · forbidden love · butterfly effect

Setting labels: future centuries · outside time · alternate reality · humanity-wide · dystopian future · galactic-scale

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Distance: 0.1315

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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: 0.1326

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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: 0.1363

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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: 0.1395

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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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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: 0.1444

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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: 0.1466

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The Third Rule of Time Travel

Philip Fracassi · 2025

A grieving scientist tests a limited time-travel device that only observes her past, until reality begins to shift.

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Premise labels: time travel experiment · limited time travel · consciousness travel · memory travel · observer only · scientific breakthrough · grief-driven research · corporate pressure · unintended consequences

Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · corporate research setting · tech company setting · time travel lab · domestic setting

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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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Version Control

Dexter Palmer · 2016

A near-future marriage, a troubled physicist, and a device that may rewrite reality pull one woman into an eerie puzzle.

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Premise labels: near future · causality violation · time travel · marriage crisis · grief · alternate reality · technology and society

Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · United States · information age · high-tech future

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Distance: 0.1584

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All Our Wrong Todays

Elan Mastai · 2017

A self-loathing time-traveler from a utopian 2016 lands in our world and must choose between two lives.

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Premise labels: alternate timeline · time travel mishap · utopian future · parallel reality · wrong timeline · fix the past · choice between worlds · identity crisis · love across timelines

Setting labels: alternate 2016 · our world · near-future utopia · techno-utopia · parallel timelines · retro-futurism · Toronto

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Distance: 0.1587

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