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Themes labels used: time, identity, memory, survival, fate, mortality, alternate selves, absurdity, determinism, loss, regret, home, growing up backward, continuity

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Charles Yu · 2010

A time-machine repairman in a science-fictional universe searches for his vanished father through a dizzying, self-referential time loop.

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Themes labels: regret · memory · time · fate vs free will · identity · storytelling · loss · abandonment · family · paternal absence · change vs acceptance · self-examination · reality vs fiction · causality · determinism · entropy · insignificance

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The End of the World

Don Hertzfeldt · 2019

A surreal stick-figure apocalypse unfolds in fragmentary, darkly funny Post-it note scenes that mix dread, absurdity, and pathos.

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Themes labels: mortality · identity · memory · loss · parenthood · alienation · absurdity · existential dread · human condition · perseverance · sanity · loneliness

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Dispel Illusion

Mark Lawrence · 2019 · Impossible Times

A young scientist racing to invent time travel must outwit fate, paradox, and his own future self.

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Themes labels: memory · time · fate · destiny · choice · consequences · paradox · truth and lies · illusion and reality · growing up · ageing · nostalgia · loss · love · friendship · regret · responsibility · free will · inevitability · endings

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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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Themes labels: memory · forgetting · technological progress · cost of progress · choice · free will · fate · identity · solitude · loneliness · humanity · reality · truth · time · death · apocalypse · abstraction · meaning · control · survival

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The Infinite and the Divine

Robert Rath · 2020 · Warhammer 40,000

Two immortal Necron rivals wage a millennia-long, hilarious feud over an artifact that could change their race’s fate.

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Themes labels: immortality · time · memory · loss · regret · identity · history · preservation · change · future · past · civilization · meaninglessness · purpose · cultural decay · mortality · alienation · power and consequence

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X Lives of Wolverine/X Deaths of Wolverine

Benjamin Percy · 2022 · X Lives of Wolverine/X Deaths of Wolverine

Wolverine is thrown through his own past while a second timeline follows Moira’s dangerous turn after Inferno.

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Themes labels: memory · regret · identity · legacy · free will · time and consequence · fatalism · violence and survival · mutation · family responsibility · manipulation · transformation · corruption · comic continuity

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Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song

Jenny T. Colgan, Jaqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams, Andy Lane · 2016 · Doctor Who NSA Anthologies

River Song’s diary reveals five time-twisting adventures, some with the Doctor and some alone, across the Whoniverse.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · time paradox · reverse chronology · fate · free will · mystery · danger · adventure · humor · love · loneliness · motherhood · family · legacy · morality · heroism · companionship · sacrifice · selfhood

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Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman · 1993

Einstein dreams alternate worlds where time behaves differently, turning physics questions into lyrical philosophical vignettes.

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Themes labels: time · free will · fate · memory · mortality · choice · cause and effect · relativity · creativity · human condition · identity · loneliness · love · future · past · present · responsibility · perception · ethics · physics and philosophy

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Emanon Volume 1: Memories of Emanon

Shinji Kajio · 2019 · エマノン [Emanon]

On a 1960s ferry ride, a young man meets a mysterious woman whose impossible memory turns a brief encounter into a life-changing mystery.

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Themes labels: memory · mortality · regret · longing · identity · time · evolution · human condition · history · ancestry · inheritance · meaning of life · immortality · change · nostalgia

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The Devil's Intern

Donna Hosie · The Devil's

A teen intern in Hell steals a time device to undo his death, but his friends and the paradoxes of time intervene.

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Themes labels: death · second chances · fate · destiny · consequences · free will · time paradox · mortality · life after death · grief · loss · acceptance · memory · responsibility · identity · ethical choice

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Paper Girls, Volume 5

Brian K. Vaughan · 2018 · Paper Girls

Teen newspaper girls are stranded in the future, racing to survive, uncover secrets, and escape fate before time runs out.

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Themes labels: fate · free will · causality · identity · love · death · survival · homecoming · coming of age · self-fulfilling prophecy · memory and time · moral complexity

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Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Grant Naylor · 1992 · Red Dwarf

A drunken slacker awakens millions of years from home and must trek back with a dead man, a computer, and an evolved cat.

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Themes labels: identity · failure · loneliness · survival · free will · social conformity · self-knowledge · absurdity · nostalgia · friendship · class · mortality · dislocation · meaninglessness

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