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The SeparationNovel
Christopher Prieststandalone novel2002
Alternate history, about identity and war, set in europe.
“The author introduces a deliberate confusion by giving these brothers identical initials – J.L. Sawyer – one known as Jack and the other as Joe.”
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The AdjacentNovel
Christopher Prieststandalone novel2013
Time travel, about war, set in our world and near future.
“In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed--annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth.”
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A Tale of Time CityNovel
Diana Wynne Jonesstandalone novel1987
Time travel, about quests and coming of age, set in otherworld.
“In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.”
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn HardcastleNovel
Stuart Turtonstandalone novel2018
Mystery & detective and whodunit, about time loop.
CavorSeries
series2 books1901
Adventurous in tone, about space exploration, set in the moon.
“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
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Great North RoadNovel
Peter F. Hamiltonstandalone novel2012
Mystery & detective, about murder investigation, set in near future and our world.