My pick would have to be the A Whole Nother Story trilogy, in which (spoiler warning) you can only travel back in time. But because time is in a loop of sorts, if you go before the beginning of time, you will be at the end of time. From there you can go back to any time you want to. And time paradoxes cannot be produced. Plus, your memories from the previous timeline exist as well as the memories from the new one.

    • mycleverusername@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I love this book! Actually just finished it this week and devoured it over 2 days.

      !I want to contact the author so badly because there is a major mistake in the first chapter. I want to know if it’s an editing mistake or if he was foreshadowing the ending and I picked up on it immediately. I actually almost stopped reading due to it, but thought “maybe there’s an explanation later”. There wasn’t…or was there?!<

      Also, as a sci-fi nerd I found quite a few easter eggs in the book that made me smile.

    • maaderbeinhof@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Came here to say The Gone World. I love how the time travel works in that book (spoilers) >!You can travel forward any length of time, but only ever return to the moment you departed (i.e. you can never travel back in time from your “present”). When you travel forward, you create a “branch” reality in which you were absent/missing for whatever span of time you jump forward. The branch ceases to exist when you return to the present, since you return to living in the present and affecting events. This leads to some people who are aware of time travel trying to imprison time travelers, to prevent their branch from being destroyed and themselves/their loved ones from “dying.” Another version of them may exist in the “main” timeline, but are they the same person? Will they meet and fall in love with the same person? Will the children they have even exist? It’s a really interesting take on time travel and causality. !<

      • totoropoko@alien.top
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        1 year ago

        The book is so good. It takes that hook and jumps off it into all these different angles, and the ending threat is almost Lovecraftian… I had to go back and re-read to understand what actually happened when it ended.

      • Sneakingsock@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It was so clever and really great take on the complexity of time travel, I thought! I really liked this one.

      • OMGItsCheezWTF@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That sounds a little bit like the Lazarus Project, a BBC TV Show.

        !A group of time travellers realised they could reset back to 1st of July at any point up to 1st July of the next year, because Earth passes through the trail of a quantum singularity at that point every year. They use this to try and save the planet when needed, only allowing the year to proceed if the conditions are as they want. An example used in the first episode is a new MRSA pandemic that keeps killing millions, they reset the year repeatedly until they have developed a vaccine so the pandemic only kills a few thousand.!<

        !Except there are other time travellers who are trying to cause their own agendas to succeed or fail before resetting, or trying to prevent resets etc so that their branch of the year can continue!<

    • hurl9e9y9@alien.top
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      1 year ago

      This was the one that came to mind for me too. One of the best written books I’ve read in a long time. I randomly think of parts of it frequently. Incredible.

    • totoropoko@alien.top
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      1 year ago

      The Gone World is my absolute favorite time travel book. Have been waiting for the author to write more books.