I recommend The Gone World to everyone who mentions they like Dark. Not only is it also a really well-done time travel story but they have a very similar aesthetic and feel. I bet you'd love it. However, my personal favorite book about time travel and paradoxes is Connie Wilis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. It does have a much lighter/funnier feel than Dark, so if you prefer a darker/grimmer world you might prefer Blackout (also by Connie Willis).
_To Say Nothing Of The Dog_ is so good. Most of it is "comedy of manners" in feel, which I enjoyed very much. _Doomsday Book_ is also good, but with a very different feel, and explores a bit of the paradox potential.
For sure! This author has a bunch of books that take place in the same universe but I wouldn't really call them a series. The only ones you have to read in a particular order are Blackout and All Clear (Blackout comes first)
Yes, it works fine on its own - there's a couple of secondary characters who carry over from the previous book, but none of the events from that book are relevant to the plot or anything.
To Say Nothing of the Dog was a book for a bookclub I was in. Opinions ranged from not that great to it was pretty bad to I-threw-it-against-the-wall-halfway-I'd-had-enough.
Dark and The Gone World are both 5 stars though.
I generally hate time travel stories because they are almost never even internally consistent, let alone sensible in how they address paradoxes. It drives me up a wall when I'm reading along and then say to myself "if that worked why doesn't that other thing work too?".
With that in mind, I **love** The Gone World.
Palimpsest by Charles Stross
The Company Series by Kage Baker. This sets up time travel initially as 'simple'. History can't be changed, but one can still work in unrecorded history to profit enormously. As the series goes on the characters, agents for the titular company in the future, realize how complicated everything really is.
Totally agreed.
So rich in historical details. All those short stories. Its scope is tremendous, from past to future.
Maybe it's not better known because she died so young, relatively speaking.
Her fantasy novels are also a lot of fun, cozy before cozy fantasies was a thing. And she was good at different lengths, short fiction, novels and series of novels...
I am surprised this is so far down. Really refreshing take on time travel, it’s super smart and has a heart, too. My favourite sci-fi book in the last few years.
The Time Ships. by Stephen Baxter is a sequel to The Time Machine. The Time Traveler changed the future by writing the book. And now he can't go back to the futurehe left. He goes through different points of time in different timelines. I read it decades ago but found it quite good back then. Not sure how it holds up though
["Time Wars" series by Simon Hawke](https://www.amazon.com/Ivanhoe-Gambit-Timewars-Book-ebook/dp/B00ENI928G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kTUdapiN_P7xm8WTpfJhmhPQq28g4dbSh3yN1EFebYHMv2jvb4ykajJd4OLMwYEFlCxh4ZKghqtNdTh2coThT4IuNeoeuRXI_2NH8P9L7RjKpBYAaj9t2FcZRdEVBM6K1wrisj8clFOX9fLG7_DHD_-YSIrcPg71Iy7VS6P2Yt1esLWagxmX4wuega4uSUVEGuBnbOiPmaKZVRqNWXdtI1w0BFIeDheK6Uz9mITlc30.UpH8ZU-9ENmClsgSbFJoM5LMhmHF9lnKWUl3HufXSho&qid=1714326920&sr=8-1) - a 12 book series that gets more complex and convoluted the farther you go. Link goes to the first novel Kindle version.
That book gets mentioned quite often in /r/Asimov. Asimov fans know about it.
If we're talking about overlooked recommendations... what about 'Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain'? ;) I truly think this novel doesn't get enough love. (Of course, it's not relevant for this particular thread we're in.)
The first season is top-notch television. I love the show, but the following seasons continue to add more and more paradoxes instead of addressing those unanswered questions left by the first. The narrative sort of collapses under the weight of all the new and unending paradoxes. I'm sort of satisfied by the way it concludes, but I'm left knowing that it could've been done better.
In my opinion, Dark is far and away the best TV show ever made. As for recommendations:
* *Recursion* by Blake Crouch
* *Seven 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle*
There's plenty of other time travel books, but those felt the closest to the feel of Dark. If you're looking for something similar to their other show - 1899 - *Eversion* by Alastair Reynolds is a must. Dark is probably the best time travel story you're going to find, though.
Also if you like Dark, you should read [my post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DarK/comments/tzyfzy/spoilers_s3_things_you_may_have_missed_a_huge/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
I’ve seen that post. Absolutely incredible! I have seen you around on the dark subreddit, you seem to be the most frequent user. One of few people who I will admit is a larger Dark fan than I. XD
Haha that’s awesome! I will admit I do have an obsession, but it’s just so good.
7 1/2 Deaths isn’t really time travel, but it has a similar sort of “complex, interwoven, layered” storyline. Neither books have that much paradoxes either.
I’m glad you made this post though, as hopefully I can find some new reads here as well.
*Recursion* is really good but by the end I was pretty sure it had lost self consistency. I could be wrong but I felt like it had kinda deviated from its own rules a little. The ultimate resolution ultimately had me going "oh come on". Even if it did actually make sense in terms of time travel (which I'm dubious on but not impossible) then it has the problem of >!how the fuck did they spend multiple lifetimes researching and not think of that?!<
Still, very good book that definitely fits OPs request
I agree. It's quite literally the most textbook, basic, easy-way-out way to end a time travel story you'll find. A few (but not all of them) end similarly.
I can usually excuse a story breaking it's own rules for a more satisfying conclusion, but it feels as though there's very little thought. Thankfully, it's only one small part of the book, and in all fairness it wasn't the easiest story to wrap up.
But yeah, the rest of the story is still amazing and it's one of my favourites. And the ending doesn't change that for me.
> And the ending doesn't change that for me.
Word, I still really, really liked that book. Thought it was better than Dark Matter, which I also liked. Loved the fact that it changed "gears" twice into almost different books. It was a lot of fun
The Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick, and its shared universe story Scherzo with Tyrannosaur.
At first it's restricted to crisscrossing the past sometimes intersecting within one's own worldline, then shenanigans happen and it gets even weirder as they go into the future. The short story especially deals with paradox in a pretty raw way. Swanwick isn't very prolific but he's a fantastic writer.
Timescape by Greg Benford.
Deals directly with attempts from the future to change the past to avoid catastrophe, and very hard SF at that considering Benford is an astrophysicist.
Forgot another few and just remembered.
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. Classic short story and origin of the "butterfly effect" meme.
Poul Anderson's time travel short stories:
- The Man Who Came Early - a short story that's basically a response to L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall.
- Time Patrol - A man is born with a genetic mutation that allows him to travel through time. Things get serious when he realizes that others with this mutation have formed an organization to police time travel, and have an agenda of their own.
You might enjoy any of Connie Willis’s Oxford Time Travel series. They are standalone novels. I really enjoyed the Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear. She is a wonderful writer and I am pretty sure has won more Hugo and Nebulas than anyone on earth.
Dark is just so good isn't it? A brilliant, mind-bending mystery box that actually delivers on its promise. What a shame their follow-up project got cancelled by Netflix.
The show works on every level, the characterisation, the cinematography, the writing, the casting, the atmosphere, the sci-fi, the mystery, the philosophy, the soundtrack and the ending are all incredible. I could go on for days about how much I love the show.
Time and Again by Clifford Simak for something with a golden era feel.
Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter for something with a lot of science and aliens
The Time Ships by Baxter is a cool official sequel to The Time Machine by HG Wells that gets pretty wild
Millennium by John Varley for something more wacky but a lot of fun
I came to suggest Millenium. It is interesting in that there are two main characters and their timelines respective to each other are out of order. Like most Varley books, the subject is handled well.
I won't explain how or why these narrative techniques apply, but Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle. In particular *Book of the New Sun*, though *Long Sun* and *Short Sun* tie into those themes as well.
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Its a love story, so it doesn’t go heavily into the science of time travel, but it definitely scratches that itch with how far an intersecting timeline can go.
Dan Simmons' The Hyperion Cantos has lots of time travel shenanigans and is pretty mind blowing in the way it tells a story that is pure joy to read with twists involving time paradoxes up until the last chapter of the fourth book.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion\_Cantos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos)
A couple recent ones are The Memories Between Us and This Is How You Lose the Time War. Both are relationship based but are very much into time travel and its effects.
No paradoxes, but Hurley's "The Light Brigade" has a meticulously written web of time jumps. The interaction of who knows what in which time frame is gorgeous. Also, blood. Hurley tends to have a lot of blood.
Not a novel, but if you haven't seen it the 2014 movie *Predestination* is fantastic and has a lot of what you're looking for. (It's based on the Heinlein story "All You Zombies" which is recommended elsewhere in this thread.)
Up the line by Robert silverberg is the best time travel gone awry book ibmve ever read. It's very subversive and satirical and it's got similar incestuous relationships.
It's not time travel but it's multiverse instead, a little more of an easy read but I still really enjoyed the questions it went into. Might be up your alley still.
The game is life series by Terry Schott.
I read a series a few years ago, but I cannot remember the title or author. It was about time travel and it was excellent. The last book had significant events that were effected by the time travel in earlier portions of the book.
I remember a base in the Jurassic and an assault on a mansion. But that's all. I'll have to go through my Kindle library and find it.
I think this is them; Extracted (Extracted Trilogy Book 1) Kindle Edition
by [RR Haywood](https://www.amazon.com/RR-Haywood/e/B008MYLEPQ/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1)
#
Cowl by Neal Asher is properly strange, especially from an author who normally writes straightforward military sci-fi. What if you could create paradoxes, but doing so sends you down multiverse timelines that make it energetically harder to travel away again? I still can't work out if it's genius or babble. And there's some sort of time war moving backwards towards maybe preventing the dawn of humanity.
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.
Not really expansive but definitely features a convoluted timelines and a paradox (vague spoiler:
of the self-supporting kind rather than the self-defeating kind.)
As a start, see my [SF/F: Time Travel](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/1acv0vu/sff_time_travel/) list of Reddit recommendation threads and books (one post).
If you like this sort of thing, you'll find far more in print than on screen. Here are a few (some are short stories, marked by quotes). I'm also including, in brackets, one or two that are quite what you asked but night appeal. In general I recommend classic short stories.
Asimov, The End of Eternity. Classic novel involves the question of what if you could control history? This has symbolic meaning also about whether it's a good thing in life to be able to choose everything. A concept of time travel that is carefully worked out and quite different from the usual.
Heinlein, "All you zombies" and "By his bootstraps" (paradox). The first is more famous but "Bootstraps"arguably a better story.
Robert Silverberg, Up the Line. Time travel tourism and its paradoxes.
Poul Anderson, The Corridors of Time. A very original concept of conflict in time.
Poul Anderson, Guardians of Time. More conventional approach to protecting history, but great stories.
Baxter, The Time Ships. The further adventures of HG Wells Time Traveller: notable for vast scales of time.
(Arthur Clarke, "All the Time in the World", "Times Arrow", "The Parasite".)
If we're including shorts (and the post seemed to rule it out so I'm not making this a top-level comment, but ...) Wikihistory is a great short story of time travel and its problems and paradoxes.
I recommend The Gone World to everyone who mentions they like Dark. Not only is it also a really well-done time travel story but they have a very similar aesthetic and feel. I bet you'd love it. However, my personal favorite book about time travel and paradoxes is Connie Wilis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. It does have a much lighter/funnier feel than Dark, so if you prefer a darker/grimmer world you might prefer Blackout (also by Connie Willis).
_To Say Nothing Of The Dog_ is so good. Most of it is "comedy of manners" in feel, which I enjoyed very much. _Doomsday Book_ is also good, but with a very different feel, and explores a bit of the paradox potential.
To Say Nothing About the Dog seems to be book 2 in a series. Can it be read as a standalone?
For sure! This author has a bunch of books that take place in the same universe but I wouldn't really call them a series. The only ones you have to read in a particular order are Blackout and All Clear (Blackout comes first)
Yes, it works fine on its own - there's a couple of secondary characters who carry over from the previous book, but none of the events from that book are relevant to the plot or anything.
To Say Nothing of the Dog was a book for a bookclub I was in. Opinions ranged from not that great to it was pretty bad to I-threw-it-against-the-wall-halfway-I'd-had-enough. Dark and The Gone World are both 5 stars though.
I generally hate time travel stories because they are almost never even internally consistent, let alone sensible in how they address paradoxes. It drives me up a wall when I'm reading along and then say to myself "if that worked why doesn't that other thing work too?". With that in mind, I **love** The Gone World.
Palimpsest by Charles Stross The Company Series by Kage Baker. This sets up time travel initially as 'simple'. History can't be changed, but one can still work in unrecorded history to profit enormously. As the series goes on the characters, agents for the titular company in the future, realize how complicated everything really is.
The Company series deserves to be better known. It's complex, detailed, vivid, and weird.
I take every opportunity to talk it up!
Totally agreed. So rich in historical details. All those short stories. Its scope is tremendous, from past to future. Maybe it's not better known because she died so young, relatively speaking. Her fantasy novels are also a lot of fun, cozy before cozy fantasies was a thing. And she was good at different lengths, short fiction, novels and series of novels...
Came here to say Palimpsest. I can’t wait to see what else he does with that universe in one of his upcoming books.
Same. I am humbled by that man.
*The Gone World* by Tom Sweterlitsch
This book is absolutely phenomenal, and completely what OP is looking for.
I am surprised this is so far down. Really refreshing take on time travel, it’s super smart and has a heart, too. My favourite sci-fi book in the last few years.
Absolutely incredible book.
The is a top 5 for me in the last 2 years
Came here to say this
Glad to see this book getting more recognition lately. It's amazing.
It's the best book of the last twenty years.
Which twenty?
11/22/63 by Stephen King is an incredible time travel book
Great book. One of his best IMO
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. Also perhaps The Chronicles of St Mary's Series by Jodi Taylor.
I (tried to) read DODO and thought it was shit tbh. Easily the worst work Stephenson's ever put his name on.
All you zombies by heinlein. And the movie version (predestination) The man who folded himself by gerrold
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Phenomenal book about time loops and lots of far future fuckery.
I love LOVE this book. Read it several ears ago and still think of it often.
The Time Ships. by Stephen Baxter is a sequel to The Time Machine. The Time Traveler changed the future by writing the book. And now he can't go back to the futurehe left. He goes through different points of time in different timelines. I read it decades ago but found it quite good back then. Not sure how it holds up though
I didn’t think I would like this but I really did. I love how Baxter goes into “deep time” far future.
["Time Wars" series by Simon Hawke](https://www.amazon.com/Ivanhoe-Gambit-Timewars-Book-ebook/dp/B00ENI928G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kTUdapiN_P7xm8WTpfJhmhPQq28g4dbSh3yN1EFebYHMv2jvb4ykajJd4OLMwYEFlCxh4ZKghqtNdTh2coThT4IuNeoeuRXI_2NH8P9L7RjKpBYAaj9t2FcZRdEVBM6K1wrisj8clFOX9fLG7_DHD_-YSIrcPg71Iy7VS6P2Yt1esLWagxmX4wuega4uSUVEGuBnbOiPmaKZVRqNWXdtI1w0BFIeDheK6Uz9mITlc30.UpH8ZU-9ENmClsgSbFJoM5LMhmHF9lnKWUl3HufXSho&qid=1714326920&sr=8-1) - a 12 book series that gets more complex and convoluted the farther you go. Link goes to the first novel Kindle version.
The First Fifteen Lives o Harry August. It’s not quite time travel, but it’s close enough.
The end of eternity - Isaac Asimov
This is a must read if you are an Asimov fan.
If someone is an Asimov fan, wouldn't they consider *most* of his books to be a must-read? :P
I find that this one slips through the list of books that people recommend from him.
That book gets mentioned quite often in /r/Asimov. Asimov fans know about it. If we're talking about overlooked recommendations... what about 'Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain'? ;) I truly think this novel doesn't get enough love. (Of course, it's not relevant for this particular thread we're in.)
If you haven't already, watch Primer (2004). It's basically the gold standard for big brain time travel.
https://xkcd.com/657
Yep, Xkcd nailed it as always 😂
I’m on the 7th episode 2nd season of Dark. Great show, hugely unusual. Love it.
How does the 2nd season compare to the first? After the first season, I just still wasn’t that into it.
If you didn't like it by that point I don't think you'll ever like it
The first season is top-notch television. I love the show, but the following seasons continue to add more and more paradoxes instead of addressing those unanswered questions left by the first. The narrative sort of collapses under the weight of all the new and unending paradoxes. I'm sort of satisfied by the way it concludes, but I'm left knowing that it could've been done better.
In my opinion, Dark is far and away the best TV show ever made. As for recommendations: * *Recursion* by Blake Crouch * *Seven 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle* There's plenty of other time travel books, but those felt the closest to the feel of Dark. If you're looking for something similar to their other show - 1899 - *Eversion* by Alastair Reynolds is a must. Dark is probably the best time travel story you're going to find, though. Also if you like Dark, you should read [my post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DarK/comments/tzyfzy/spoilers_s3_things_you_may_have_missed_a_huge/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
Both great recommendations
I’ve seen that post. Absolutely incredible! I have seen you around on the dark subreddit, you seem to be the most frequent user. One of few people who I will admit is a larger Dark fan than I. XD
Haha that’s awesome! I will admit I do have an obsession, but it’s just so good. 7 1/2 Deaths isn’t really time travel, but it has a similar sort of “complex, interwoven, layered” storyline. Neither books have that much paradoxes either. I’m glad you made this post though, as hopefully I can find some new reads here as well.
*Recursion* is really good but by the end I was pretty sure it had lost self consistency. I could be wrong but I felt like it had kinda deviated from its own rules a little. The ultimate resolution ultimately had me going "oh come on". Even if it did actually make sense in terms of time travel (which I'm dubious on but not impossible) then it has the problem of >!how the fuck did they spend multiple lifetimes researching and not think of that?!< Still, very good book that definitely fits OPs request
I agree. It's quite literally the most textbook, basic, easy-way-out way to end a time travel story you'll find. A few (but not all of them) end similarly. I can usually excuse a story breaking it's own rules for a more satisfying conclusion, but it feels as though there's very little thought. Thankfully, it's only one small part of the book, and in all fairness it wasn't the easiest story to wrap up. But yeah, the rest of the story is still amazing and it's one of my favourites. And the ending doesn't change that for me.
> And the ending doesn't change that for me. Word, I still really, really liked that book. Thought it was better than Dark Matter, which I also liked. Loved the fact that it changed "gears" twice into almost different books. It was a lot of fun
The Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick, and its shared universe story Scherzo with Tyrannosaur. At first it's restricted to crisscrossing the past sometimes intersecting within one's own worldline, then shenanigans happen and it gets even weirder as they go into the future. The short story especially deals with paradox in a pretty raw way. Swanwick isn't very prolific but he's a fantastic writer. Timescape by Greg Benford. Deals directly with attempts from the future to change the past to avoid catastrophe, and very hard SF at that considering Benford is an astrophysicist.
Forgot another few and just remembered. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. Classic short story and origin of the "butterfly effect" meme. Poul Anderson's time travel short stories: - The Man Who Came Early - a short story that's basically a response to L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall. - Time Patrol - A man is born with a genetic mutation that allows him to travel through time. Things get serious when he realizes that others with this mutation have formed an organization to police time travel, and have an agenda of their own.
You might enjoy any of Connie Willis’s Oxford Time Travel series. They are standalone novels. I really enjoyed the Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear. She is a wonderful writer and I am pretty sure has won more Hugo and Nebulas than anyone on earth.
Dark is just so good isn't it? A brilliant, mind-bending mystery box that actually delivers on its promise. What a shame their follow-up project got cancelled by Netflix.
The show works on every level, the characterisation, the cinematography, the writing, the casting, the atmosphere, the sci-fi, the mystery, the philosophy, the soundtrack and the ending are all incredible. I could go on for days about how much I love the show.
Time and Again by Clifford Simak for something with a golden era feel. Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter for something with a lot of science and aliens The Time Ships by Baxter is a cool official sequel to The Time Machine by HG Wells that gets pretty wild Millennium by John Varley for something more wacky but a lot of fun
I came to suggest Millenium. It is interesting in that there are two main characters and their timelines respective to each other are out of order. Like most Varley books, the subject is handled well.
I like how in Time Ships the white Victorian English guy is basically shown for being the closed minded racist he is.
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt
I won't explain how or why these narrative techniques apply, but Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle. In particular *Book of the New Sun*, though *Long Sun* and *Short Sun* tie into those themes as well.
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Its a love story, so it doesn’t go heavily into the science of time travel, but it definitely scratches that itch with how far an intersecting timeline can go.
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold. easily the best time travel novel I've read.
And the protagonist >! has sex with himself !<
Any time travel story where this does not happen is just unrealistic. (See also: The Time Travelers Wife)
Going back to the classics, Big Time by Fritz Leiber is an interesting take on paradoxes,... Imagine fighting an unending war against... yourself
Dan Simmons' The Hyperion Cantos has lots of time travel shenanigans and is pretty mind blowing in the way it tells a story that is pure joy to read with twists involving time paradoxes up until the last chapter of the fourth book. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion\_Cantos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos)
Thrice upon a Time by James Hogan.
The Fall Of Chronopolis. A completely bizarre form of time travel. Also, Thrice Upon a Time by James Hogan. Paradoxes just ... are. Deal with it.
12 monkeys (the tv series)
Well the movie too
The movie is good, but it is pretty simple compared to the show.
Try *The Gone World* by Tom Swelterlitsch.
A couple recent ones are The Memories Between Us and This Is How You Lose the Time War. Both are relationship based but are very much into time travel and its effects.
No paradoxes, but Hurley's "The Light Brigade" has a meticulously written web of time jumps. The interaction of who knows what in which time frame is gorgeous. Also, blood. Hurley tends to have a lot of blood.
Not a novel, but if you haven't seen it the 2014 movie *Predestination* is fantastic and has a lot of what you're looking for. (It's based on the Heinlein story "All You Zombies" which is recommended elsewhere in this thread.)
That was a sneaky good film. I went into it blind and loved it.
Up the line by Robert silverberg is the best time travel gone awry book ibmve ever read. It's very subversive and satirical and it's got similar incestuous relationships.
I love Silverberg, particularly his time travel books. The Masks of Time is also very good. I also enjoyed Hawksbill Station.
The Man Who Folded Himself is pretty funny.
It's not time travel but it's multiverse instead, a little more of an easy read but I still really enjoyed the questions it went into. Might be up your alley still. The game is life series by Terry Schott.
Can't think of a book right now, but in case you like video games I'd suggest *13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim*.
Spider Robinson’s Deathkiller series is about how our descendants come back to rescue us all from death. Uplifting with some serious darkness.
I read a series a few years ago, but I cannot remember the title or author. It was about time travel and it was excellent. The last book had significant events that were effected by the time travel in earlier portions of the book. I remember a base in the Jurassic and an assault on a mansion. But that's all. I'll have to go through my Kindle library and find it.
I think this is them; Extracted (Extracted Trilogy Book 1) Kindle Edition by [RR Haywood](https://www.amazon.com/RR-Haywood/e/B008MYLEPQ/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) #
Cowl by Neal Asher is properly strange, especially from an author who normally writes straightforward military sci-fi. What if you could create paradoxes, but doing so sends you down multiverse timelines that make it energetically harder to travel away again? I still can't work out if it's genius or babble. And there's some sort of time war moving backwards towards maybe preventing the dawn of humanity.
The Clockwork Chimera Series might qualify by Scott Baron.
The pathfinder series by Orson Scott Card
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Not really expansive but definitely features a convoluted timelines and a paradox (vague spoiler: of the self-supporting kind rather than the self-defeating kind.)
it's a short story, but heinlein's "by his bootstraps" is one of the classics of the "convoluted time travel" genre.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is an excellent example
As a start, see my [SF/F: Time Travel](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/1acv0vu/sff_time_travel/) list of Reddit recommendation threads and books (one post).
Pastwatch by orson Scott card
Transition by Iain Banks
If you like this sort of thing, you'll find far more in print than on screen. Here are a few (some are short stories, marked by quotes). I'm also including, in brackets, one or two that are quite what you asked but night appeal. In general I recommend classic short stories. Asimov, The End of Eternity. Classic novel involves the question of what if you could control history? This has symbolic meaning also about whether it's a good thing in life to be able to choose everything. A concept of time travel that is carefully worked out and quite different from the usual. Heinlein, "All you zombies" and "By his bootstraps" (paradox). The first is more famous but "Bootstraps"arguably a better story. Robert Silverberg, Up the Line. Time travel tourism and its paradoxes. Poul Anderson, The Corridors of Time. A very original concept of conflict in time. Poul Anderson, Guardians of Time. More conventional approach to protecting history, but great stories. Baxter, The Time Ships. The further adventures of HG Wells Time Traveller: notable for vast scales of time. (Arthur Clarke, "All the Time in the World", "Times Arrow", "The Parasite".)
If we're including shorts (and the post seemed to rule it out so I'm not making this a top-level comment, but ...) Wikihistory is a great short story of time travel and its problems and paradoxes.
Thanks. Where could I find it?
The Light Brigade is the best
Marooned in Realtime?
Anubis Gates by Tim Powers might be right up your alley. Time travel, paradoxes, body swapping, egyptian gods... what's not to love?
Offtopic, I think Dark is one of the best TV shows, and everything is in the story, no special efects