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A New York detective chasing an outbreak of false memories crosses paths with the neuroscientist whose machine for preserving memory has started letting people rewrite their pasts, and the timeline with them.
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Dark Matter
Jason Dessen, a physics professor in Chicago, is abducted one night and wakes in a world where he never married his wife and became a celebrated scientist instead, and he will do anything to get home.
11/22/63
A high school English teacher discovers a portal to 1958 and tries to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but every change to the past fights back.
All You Need Is Kill
Keiji Kiriya, a raw recruit in humanity's war against the alien Mimics, dies in his first battle and wakes up the morning before it, again and again, with the fight still ahead of him each time.
The End of Eternity
A technician in a time-altering organisation makes unauthorised changes to history to save a woman he loves, threatening the existence of eternity itself.
Artemis
A smuggler living in humanity's first lunar city gets caught up in a conspiracy that threatens the entire moon colony.
The Time Traveler's Wife
A man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time-travel involuntarily tries to build a marriage with the woman he keeps disappearing from.
Ready Player One
In a dystopian future, a teenager's encyclopedic knowledge of 1980s pop culture becomes the key to inheriting a virtual world's fortune.
Timescape
In 1998, with the world dying of ecological collapse, Cambridge scientists try to warn the past using tachyons, and in 1962 a young physicist in California picks up the strange noise in his experiment and tries to make sense of it.
The Hunger Games
A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.
Wool
Thousands of people live in a vast underground silo, and the worst crime is asking to go outside, until Juliette, a mechanic from the deep levels, is made sheriff and starts asking why.
Blackout
In 2060, three Oxford historians go back to Second World War England, to Dunkirk, the Blitz and a country house full of evacuated children, and find their way home won't open.
The Peripheral
A young woman in near-future rural America takes a gig testing what she thinks is a video game and witnesses a murder in a London seventy years ahead.