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Themes labels used: fate vs free will, grief, loss, regret, consequences, moral responsibility, ethics, time, memory, choice, obedience, conformity, regret and possibility, butterfly effect, love and sacrifice, identity, belonging, social control, life choices

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Cover of Love and Other Paradoxes by Catriona Silvey

Love and Other Paradoxes

Catriona Silvey · 2025

A Cambridge poet gets a glimpse of his future from a time traveler and must choose between destiny and his own heart.

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Themes labels: fate versus free will · determinism · predestination · choice · agency · self-discovery · identity · ambition · ambivalence · love · loss · family · regret · second chances · changing the future · emotional consequences · butterfly effect · destiny · present moment · making choices

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Cover of Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins

Until We Meet Again

Renee Collins · 2015

A bored teen and a boy from 1925 meet on one beach, uncover a mystery, and race to save their impossible love.

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Themes labels: fate vs free will · love across time · grief · loss · mortality · memory · identity · coming of age · butterfly effect · changing the past · choice · family expectations · loneliness · longing · self-discovery

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In Any Lifetime

Marc Guggenheim · 2024

A grieving physicist uses multiverse theory to chase the one reality where his wife survived, while a rival closes in.

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Themes labels: love and loss · grief · fate vs free will · obsession · revenge · acceptance · moral cost · consequences · determinism · sacrifice · identity · moving on · desperation · ethical ambiguity · collateral damage

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A Soldier's Duty

Jean Johnson · 2011 · Theirs Not to Reason Why

A precognitive teen joins the Marines, determined to steer a galaxy-sized future disaster onto a survivable path.

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Themes labels: fate vs free will · predestination · sacrifice · duty · survival · greater good · power and responsibility · manipulation · ethics of intervention · secrecy · free will vs destiny · cost of saving others · personal self-denial

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The Upper World

Femi Fadugba · 2021 · The Upper World

Two London teens, 15 years apart, are linked by a physics-driven time-travel mystery and a race to change fate.

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Themes labels: fate vs free will · changing the past · time and space · science education · grief · identity · heritage · belonging · loss · future anxiety · choice and consequence · social inequality · survival · coming of age · friendship · love · family history · representation · trauma · race relations

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Cover of Time After Time by Tamara Ireland Stone

Time After Time

Tamara Ireland Stone · 2013 · Time Between Us

Bennett must balance time travel, family, and a fragile love with Anna across two decades.

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Themes labels: love vs responsibility · choice and consequence · fate · free will · growing up · identity · trust · sacrifice · ethical use of power · living in the moment · happily ever after · second chances

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Cover of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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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Cover of Seek the Traitor's Son by Veronica Roth

Seek the Traitor's Son

Veronica Roth · 2026 · The Burning Empire

On a future Earth split by fever-worshippers and tech survivors, a soldier is swept into a prophecy, war, and fated love.

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Themes labels: fate vs free will · destiny · power · war · identity · legacy · grief · trauma · healing · choice · moral ambiguity · religion vs science · political control · responsibility · sacrifice · rebirth

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Cover of The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig

The Ship Beyond Time

Heidi Heilig · 2017 · The Girl from Everywhere

A teenage time traveler sails to a mythic utopia to challenge fate and save the person she loves.

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Themes labels: fate versus free will · identity · belonging · loss · love and sacrifice · ethics of changing history · memory · colonialism · colonization · destiny · choice · reality and belief · grief · family · control of the future

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Cover of The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma

The Map of Time

Félix J. Palma · 2011 · Trilogía Victoriana

In Victorian London, three intertwined stories use time travel, literary figures, and shifting realities to challenge history.

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Themes labels: free will · cause and effect · butterfly effect · fate · choice · time and memory · reality vs illusion · history changing · grief · hope · desire · identity · love · class difference · gender roles · literary creation · writing process

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