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A Pivot In Time

Douglas E. Richards

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Premise labels used: alien artifact, time travel, timeline risk, future threat, historical intervention, race for power, international rivalry

Setting labels used: near future, ancient Rome, Roman Empire, historical past, global future, time-displaced, alternate-history risk, international setting, science-driven reality

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Pax Romana

Jonathan Hickman · 2009 · Pax Romana

A Vatican-backed time-travel mission to ancient Rome fractures into power struggles, ideology, and an altered history.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate history · religious conflict · church power · mission gone wrong · history alteration · political thriller · social engineering

Setting labels: near future · ancient Rome · Constantinian era · early Christianity · alternate history · futuristic future · Vatican-run future

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Time's Divide

Rysa Walker · 2015 · The Chronos Files

A time-traveling teen races through shifting timelines to stop a deadly global plan before the future locks in forever.

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Premise labels: time travel · timeline shifts · prevent apocalypse · save the world · race against time · hidden faction · betrayal risk · love triangle

Setting labels: past and future · alternate timelines · historical settings · American history · urban settings · 20th century

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Distance: 0.1479

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Earth & Sky

Megan Crewe · 2014 · Earth & Sky

A teen who feels reality’s glitches is pulled into an alien time-travel mission to save Earth from collapse.

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Premise labels: time travel · alien experiment · alien rebellion · save the Earth · hidden sensitivity · race against time · reality unraveling

Setting labels: Earth · historical settings · past eras · contemporary Earth · alien world

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Distance: 0.1553

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Firstborn

Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter · 2007 · A Time Odyssey

A time-split Earth faces a new alien doomsday threat as Bisesa Dutt races across worlds for a way to save humanity.

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Premise labels: alien threat · doomsday device · race against time · humanity versus aliens · time-sliced Earth · alternate Earth · cosmic survival · civilizational conflict

Setting labels: near future · Earth · Mars · Mir · alternate reality · spacefaring future · time-sliced world · solar system

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Distance: 0.1563

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The Forgotten Locket

Lisa Mangum · 2011 · Hourglass Door

A time-traveling teen races to mend a broken timeline, save her family, and survive a mind-game battle for her heart.

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Premise labels: time travel · save the future · alter the past · battle for mind and life · world in danger

Setting labels: time travel setting · alternate history · 16th century Italy · 16th century France · present day · riverbank world · time machine world · fantastical reality

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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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Memoirs of a Time Traveler

Doug Molitor · 2017 · Time Amazon

An archaeologist is pulled into a chaotic time-travel chase to undo history-warping thefts before the future unravels.

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Premise labels: time travel · timeline repair · paradox · alternate history · artifact trigger · history alteration · future tourist · renegade traveler · mystery chase · historical adventure

Setting labels: future utopia · 22nd century · multiple eras · ancient history · Bronze Age · 1776 · 1940s Hollywood · steampunk world · alternate timeline · historical reality · time travel world

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Wayfarer

Alexandra Bracken · 2017 · Passenger

Separated time travelers race to recover a history-bending artifact before rival factions reshape the timeline.

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Premise labels: time travel · timeline protection · missing artifact · separated lovers · alternate history · race against time · family conflict · power struggle

Setting labels: multiple time periods · alternate timeline · historical settings · Imperial Russia · Vatican catacombs · Prague · Petrograd · New York · London · Iceland · Japan · San Francisco

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Time Patrol

Poul Anderson · 2006 · Time Patrol

A time-traveling patrol must protect history from meddling while solving missions across vivid, dangerous past eras.

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Premise labels: time travel police · history preservation · timeline protection · counterfactual missions · history intervention · anti-alteration · future humanity survival · time cops

Setting labels: future organization · multiple historical eras · ancient history · prehistoric era · Pleistocene · classical antiquity · late 19th century · 20th century · alternate history · Earthbound

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Distance: 0.1658

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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: 0.1665

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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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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: 0.1688

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