Waking in Time
A grieving college freshman keeps waking in earlier decades and must solve a family mystery to find her way home.
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Costumes for Time Travelers
A nonbinary costumer in an out-of-time town teams with a time-savvy stranger to stop a force erasing travelers and Pocket.
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
Three sheltered siblings escape their compound in futuristic Zimbabwe, triggering a kidnapping chase and a detective search.
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Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope
In a brutal future Canada, a young resistance fighter battles a religious empire while uncovering her identity and past.
Children of the Night
An American doctor in post-Communist Romania adopts a strange orphan baby and is drawn into a scientific Dracula conspiracy.
Rocket Girl Volume 1: Times Squared
A teenage future cop time-travels to 1986 New York to stop a corporation and uncover why her world may not exist.
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Revan
A memory-wiped Jedi must uncover a hidden galactic threat while a Sith scheme and old loyalties close in.
The Vagrant
A mute wanderer, a baby, a goat, and a magic sword cross a demon-warped wasteland toward humanity’s last refuge.
The Secret Lake
Two siblings uncover a hidden tunnel in their garden and tumble into a past version of their own home.
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يوتوبيا
In a future Egypt split between rich and poor, a bored elite teen crosses into the underclass and triggers disaster.
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The Navigating Fox
A disgraced fox guide gets one last chance at redemption by leading a strange expedition to the gates of Hell.
Station Eleven
A pandemic ends civilization, and scattered survivors are linked by one actor, one comic, and a troupe preserving art.