What Science Fantasy Novels Feature Time Travel And Ancient Gods?
2026-07-21 07:04:13
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Guy Gavriel Kay's works often have a soft, historical-fantasy feel, but 'Tigana' and 'The Lions of Al-Rassan' have moments where the past feels like a living, haunting force. In 'The Sarantine Mosaic', the divine is felt through mosaics and rituals. It's less about literal gods and time machines, more about how history and belief become mythic forces that shape the present.
2026-07-24 02:17:30
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Kameron Hurley's 'The Mirror Empire' and its sequels. Parallel worlds, blood magic, and sentient, carnivorous plants. Time is broken, with different worlds experiencing different rates, and there are god-like beings who can walk between them. It's brutally inventive and doesn't hold your hand with the complex world-building.
2026-07-24 03:50:06
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Let’s not forget older pulp. Leigh Brackett's 'The Sword of Rhiannon' is a planetary romance where an archaeologist is thrown back in time on Mars to an era when Martian gods walked. It's pure, swashbuckling science fantasy from the golden age—ancient seas, lost civilizations, and a cursed hero.
2026-07-24 15:02:26
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Alright, my two cents: look into Japanese light novels. 'Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation' involves reincarnation into a fantasy world with a detailed magic system that later gets quasi-scientific explanations. There's an overarching plot with ancient dragon gods, legendary heroes, and a catastrophe that loops time. The web novel finale goes full circle with fate and timelines.
2026-07-26 08:59:56
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A comic series: 'Planetary' by Warren Ellis. Archaeologists of the unknown uncover the secret history of a super-powered world. They deal with time-traveling ghosts, ancient astronauts, and hidden civilizations. It's a love letter to pulp fiction, blending every genre to ask what happens when the myths are real and science is the new magic.
2026-07-27 02:19:14
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Raised By Gods
Ellie Lowsin
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Aria wakes up one morning to her parents fighting about her, again. Little does she know that this fight will change the course of her life forever. In a world where most the Myths are real, Aria will find love, heartbreak, adventure, and the power of a new goddess.
Xiao Chen was once an abandoned disciple of an Immortals’ sect after being framed up by people. Thousands of years later, he was reborn, only to seek all that remained, to find his master, and to cultivate again. However, he was involved in a battle of the six realms from the Annihilation Times without knowing it.After his rebirth in the Human World, he was a loser who could not even cultivate. He was mocked and lived a miserable life. When a cultivator happened to pass by his home, he managed to fight against his fate and started his life as a cultivator.He was once banished by the gods, and his soul was sealed. Now, with an invincible Divine Soul, he stirred things up in the world, obtained the great fortune of heaven and earth, and commanded the power of life and death. He dominated the nine realms and the gods held him in awe.How powerful was his Fuxi Zither? Would he ascend to Heaven and become an Immortal? Would he find his master and solve all those mysteries? Let’s take the journey with Xiao Chen and enjoy a wonderful, dangerous adventure!
This book is a must-read for teenagers. It brings out the emotional and physical countenances of most teenagers, in verisimilitude.
Anderson Simpson and his friend, Harrison Edgeton, are in for an adventure that would blow your mind.
They discovered things about themselves that they never knew or understood, when they went back through time, with the help of an old Time Machine of “The Time Gods"
The Goddess of Wisdom and creation. (A dark gods novel)
Ashley Lagoo
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copyright (Warning this is a dark God and Goddess novel. This is all war and manipulation. It won't be pretty at times and it may make your cringe but every scene has a purpose. You just have to keep reading to find out more)
Mazaya(masaya) is the goddess of wisdom and creation she's anything but normal. she's emotionally unstable because She holds too much power. She's the only God that was born with a dark god and light God parent. It was never heard of before her. So that explains why she is the most powerful God in existence. Right? Not really because nothing is as it seems. Gods are manipulating each other left and right to prevent complete control. Things you think you know turn out to be a spell caused to protect the world. The only truth is the what they are living now. The past could be lies and there's only one way to find out the truth, to go along Mazaya's journey. One thing is true though She only has one weakness and when the most powerful Gods find it out they work to exploit it so they can control everything. The person who possesses her rules all. Will Mazaya be a pawn in this war against Gods or will she be able to free herself from some of the most ruthless Gods in existence. It' starts off slow but once you get into it it heats up and gets intense. nothing is as it seems in a world full of the most powerful gods. There will be sex scenes and at times it will seem out of there but this is a world of Dark Gods not weak mortals. And what is the way to ones soul? sex and manipulation.
As a wolf shifter growing up in one of the strongest packs on the continent, I should be living my best life. But after my mother ran away and got herself knocked up by some demon, I became the town's pariah.
They call my species Slades, half-demon, half-wolf shifter. We're hunted and killed the moment we first shift. Unfortunately for me, my first shift is coming sooner than I'd like and if I don't form some kind of plan, I'm going to shift in front of the whole god-damned pack and then there'll be no running.
So, I do what any sane young, desperate woman would do in my situation. I summon a God.
*Book 6*
Gabriella is a no nonsense kind of woman. She loves deeply and fights for what matters to her. Her life was going along just fine, that is until she catches her boyfriend cheating on her.
That should have been the worst of her issues, but soon a cheating boyfriend pales in comparison to being fated to a God, and a brooding one at that.
Quickly Gabriella will be pulled into thousand year old drama and find out she is part of a prophecy that could potentially destroy the world depending on what choices she makes.
How will this simple human handle carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders and a possessive God on her back?
A Queen Among Gods is the sixth book in the Queen Among series. Characters and plot pots have been meticulously set up in previous books building up to this one. So, many events and terms in this book will not make sense if you haven't read the previous books.
Here are the books in the series:
A Queen Among Alphas - Book 1
Bite-Size Luna - A Queen Among Alphas Prequel
A Queen Among Snakes - Book 2
Runaway Empress - A Queen Among Snakes Prequel (coming soon)
A Queen Among Blood - Book 3
Whole Again - A Queen Among Alpha's spin-off
A Queen Among Darkness - Book 4
Dark Vocation - A Queen Among Darkness spin-off (coming soon)
A Queen Among Tides - Book 5
Valor, Virtue, and Verve - A Queen Among Tides Prequel Spin-off (coming soon)
A Queen Among Gods - Book 6
A Queen Among Tempests - Book 7 (coming soon)
Max Barry's 'Lexicon' isn't strictly time travel, but it involves 'words of power' that can reprogram people's minds. The plot hinges on a prophecy about a 'bareword' that can affect anyone, and the narrative jumps around in time to show how events in the past created the crisis in the present. The non-linear storytelling gives it a time-travel-like feel, as you piece together how the prophecy was created and how to stop it. It's a linguistic thriller that reads like a movie.
A lot of recommendations here are from big publishers. The small press scene has some gems too. I recently read 'The Flight of the Godkin' from a tiny press called 'Mythic Delirium'. It's a time-travel fantasy where a family's magic is tied to their ability to visit their ancestors' memories. It's raw, weird, and didn't have to conform to commercial trends. Supporting small presses often gets you the most inventive takes on genres, because they can take bigger risks. Check out winners of the World Fantasy Award or the Otherwise Award for leads on these lesser-known treasures.
Don’t overlook the ‘LitRPG’ and ‘GameLit’ sections on KU. Some involve time loops within game worlds, and the ethics get meta. Is it ethical to use out-of-game knowledge (like replaying a loop) to manipulate in-game characters who feel real? One series, 'The Completionist Chronicles,' touches on this—the protagonist’s ability to restart sections of a game-like world raises questions about consent and fairness.
It’s a lighter take, often played for comedy, but the underlying question of treating sentient-seeming beings as NPCs has ethical weight. These books are more about fun than deep philosophy, but they occasionally stumble into profound territory between the level-ups and loot drops.
For a pure fantasy politics take, 'The Licanius Trilogy' by James Islington is built on a time loop paradox. The entire plot is a carefully constructed knot where characters' actions in the present are influenced by artifacts and messages from the future, all orchestrated by a figure trying to break a cosmic cycle. You slowly realize every betrayal, every sacrifice, might be part of a destined plan centuries in the making to achieve a final, free choice. It's incredibly satisfying to see the puzzle of predestination and free will click into place.
Robert Charles Wilson’s 'Chronoliths' is a different angle. Monuments from the future start appearing, heralding the conquest of a future warlord. The exploration is of a mystery—scientists and ordinary people trying to understand this invasion from the future.
The adventure is in the global pursuit of clues as society slowly unravels. It’s an exploration of cause and effect, and of a terrifying possible destiny. The time travel is passive (the monuments arrive), but the need to explore their origin and meaning drives a tense, psychological adventure.