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Ned Henry, an Oxford time traveller suffering from time-lag after too many jumps hunting a Victorian vase called the bishop's bird stump, is sent to recover in 1888, in a rowing boat on the Thames.
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The Ministry of Time
A British civil servant is hired by a secretive new ministry to live with Commander Graham Gore, a Victorian naval officer brought into the present from the doomed Franklin expedition, and as she teaches him modern life, they fall for each other while the project turns dangerous.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Richard MacDuff, a software engineer, is drawn by his old Cambridge acquaintance Dirk Gently, a detective who believes in the interconnectedness of all things, into a mess involving a murdered boss, a ghost, a horse in a bathroom and an Electric Monk.
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.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack calls himself Ernest in town and Algernon visits an invented invalid friend called Bunbury in the country, and their courtship of Gwendolen and Cecily, who both insist on marrying a man named Ernest, collapses into comic confusion.
The Time Machine
A late-Victorian inventor travels eight hundred thousand years into a future where humanity has split into two species, and then continues to the cold red beach at the end of the world.
Redshirts
Ensign Andrew Dahl, newly posted to the starship Intrepid, notices that junior crew who go on away missions with the senior officers die with alarming regularity.
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.
Starter Villain
Charlie, a divorced substitute teacher, inherits his estranged uncle's parking-garage business and finds it is a front for a supervillain's empire, complete with a volcano lair, unionised dolphins and very intelligent cats.
Columbus Day
When aliens invade Earth on Columbus Day, Joe Bishop, a young army specialist, is sent to fight on alien worlds and ends up teamed with Skippy, an ancient, arrogant AI in something like a beer can.
One Last Stop
August Landry, twenty-three and cynical about love, moves to New York and keeps meeting Jane Su, a charming punk on the Q train, who turns out to be stuck there, displaced in time from the 1970s.
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
In 1920s Montreal, Agnes Aubert has to move her overcrowded cat shelter, and the only premises she can afford come cheap for a reason: the basement holds a secret magic shop run by Havelock Renard, a former dark magician.
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Christopher Chant, a lonely boy in a well-off family, can walk in his dreams into other worlds, and his charming uncle Ralph starts asking him to fetch things from them.