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11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
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Timeloop stories:
Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic (aka nobody103)
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning
The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand (aka Void Herald)
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/36735/the-perfect-run
Both are available as completed free webserials and as polished releases on Amazon.
The title Mother of Learning comes from the phrase, "Repetition is the mother of learning." A student in a magical academy gets caught in what appears to be a time loop that repeats the same month over and over again, only the time loop is not what he thinks it is. I'm impressed by the forethought and planning put into the worldbuilding and plot, especially since it was written and released in monthly installments over 9 years. Tiny details that you may dismiss as background scenery, like seeing a rat run across a dilapidated alley, can eventually unfold into larger plot elements you never suspected far down the line. Everything ties together into the grand finale with no filler.
The Perfect Run is set in a post-apocalyptic world of superheroes and supervillains. It has the trademark mix of comedy and emotional sincerity/seriousness/heart that Durand uses in all his books. The MC has an ability that lets him rewind time whenever he dies. In effect, he has lived the equivalent of centuries if you add up all the time loops. But no one remembers the loops, or remembers their interactions with him. No one believes his claims of immortality, and any friends or acquaintances forget him as their time together is reset to zero. The book explores how a person can become unhinged when death doesn't matter, actions never have consequences, friendships and relationships are doomed to be reset to zero with his life experiences erased and forgotten by everyone except him, unending centuries of meaningless erased time...and how he struggles to get back to a human perspective. Wacky hijinks abound, when nothing matters and he's already tried all the creative ways to kill himself. He will keep repeating time over and over again, trying for that one perfect sequence of events to save everyone.
Time travel stories:
The late Eric Flint had a few time travel series he collectively called the Assiti Shards universe. The main series is the 1632 series (also called the Ring of Fire series), where the fictional modern day West Virginian coal-mining town of Grantville is teleported back in time and into the middle of the medieval Germany during the Thirty Years War in 1632. The sprawling 1632 series has grown into many intertwining sub-series focused on different regions of the world and different plot threads, with many co-authors (some good, some not), as the impact of a town from the future expands. The first book is eponymously titled 1632 by Eric Flint.
Another Assiti Shards series, separate from the 1632 timeline, is the Queen of the Seas series. Here, a giant modern cruise ship is teleported back to the ancient Mediterranean Sea during a succession wars period beginning right after the death of Alexander the Great. The first book is The Alexander Inheritance.
And recently, yet another Assiti Shards timeline was started in An Angel Named Peterbilt, where two families and a long-haul Peterbilt truck is teleported back a thousand years into the past.
Eric flint's widow has taken possession of her late husband's IP and there are plans and contracts to continue the various Assiti Shards books via the writers who were co-authors of Eric Flint's.
Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic (aka nobody103)
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning
The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand (aka Void Herald)
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/36735/the-perfect-run
Both are available as completed free webserials and as polished releases on Amazon.
The title Mother of Learning comes from the phrase, "Repetition is the mother of learning." A student in a magical academy gets caught in what appears to be a time loop that repeats the same month over and over again, only the time loop is not what he thinks it is. I'm impressed by the forethought and planning put into the worldbuilding and plot, especially since it was written and released in monthly installments over 9 years. Tiny details that you may dismiss as background scenery, like seeing a rat run across a dilapidated alley, can eventually unfold into larger plot elements you never suspected far down the line. Everything ties together into the grand finale with no filler.
The Perfect Run is set in a post-apocalyptic world of superheroes and supervillains. It has the trademark mix of comedy and emotional sincerity/seriousness/heart that Durand uses in all his books. The MC has an ability that lets him rewind time whenever he dies. In effect, he has lived the equivalent of centuries if you add up all the time loops. But no one remembers the loops, or remembers their interactions with him. No one believes his claims of immortality, and any friends or acquaintances forget him as their time together is reset to zero. The book explores how a person can become unhinged when death doesn't matter, actions never have consequences, friendships and relationships are doomed to be reset to zero with his life experiences erased and forgotten by everyone except him, unending centuries of meaningless erased time...and how he struggles to get back to a human perspective. Wacky hijinks abound, when nothing matters and he's already tried all the creative ways to kill himself. He will keep repeating time over and over again, trying for that one perfect sequence of events to save everyone.
Time travel stories:
The late Eric Flint had a few time travel series he collectively called the Assiti Shards universe. The main series is the 1632 series (also called the Ring of Fire series), where the fictional modern day West Virginian coal-mining town of Grantville is teleported back in time and into the middle of the medieval Germany during the Thirty Years War in 1632. The sprawling 1632 series has grown into many intertwining sub-series focused on different regions of the world and different plot threads, with many co-authors (some good, some not), as the impact of a town from the future expands. The first book is eponymously titled 1632 by Eric Flint.
Another Assiti Shards series, separate from the 1632 timeline, is the Queen of the Seas series. Here, a giant modern cruise ship is teleported back to the ancient Mediterranean Sea during a succession wars period beginning right after the death of Alexander the Great. The first book is The Alexander Inheritance.
And recently, yet another Assiti Shards timeline was started in An Angel Named Peterbilt, where two families and a long-haul Peterbilt truck is teleported back a thousand years into the past.
Eric flint's widow has taken possession of her late husband's IP and there are plans and contracts to continue the various Assiti Shards books via the writers who were co-authors of Eric Flint's.
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Jack Finney
Time and Again
From Time to Time
The Clock of Time (short stories, includes The Third Level)
Time and Again
From Time to Time
The Clock of Time (short stories, includes The Third Level)
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