Books like Killing Time

Killing Time by Della Van Hise reads as adventurous, nostalgic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What Killing Time is like to read

A tense alternate-timeline Star Trek adventure where Kirk and Spock's identities are scrambled, driven by mindmeld intrigue and Romulan conspiracy; fast-moving fan-fiction-adjacent plotting rewards genre familiarity. Best for: Star Trek fans wanting a dramatic Kirk/Spock role-reversal alternate-timeline adventure.

Doctor Who

Terrance Dicks · 1986

A brisk sci-fi adventure in which the Doctor and companions race to stop an Ice Warrior invasion piggybacking on sabotaged teleport technology — plot-forward peril with global stakes.

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Winner Takes All

Jacqueline Rayner · 2005

A brisk, family-friendly Doctor Who adventure: a museum mystery with a menacing curator and endangered creatures, moving at a steady investigative clip typical of the tie-in novel line.

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The corridors of time

Poul Anderson · 1965

A high-stakes temporal thriller in which a past-born protagonist must navigate future technology and ethics to prevent catastrophic timeline collapse.

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Doctor Who

David Whitaker · 1964

Reads adventurous in the same way — and goes just as deep on time travel.

The Proteus operation

James P. Hogan · 1985

Same intricate register, circling alternate history and time travel from its own angle.

11/22/63 (Enhanced eBook)

Stephen King · 2011

A sprawling time-travel thriller that fuses intimate character introspection with historical weight, forcing a protagonist to wrestle with the metaphysical and moral cost of changing destiny.

Lest Darkness Fall

L. Sprague De Camp · 1941

A brisk, problem-solving adventure as a modern man uses knowledge and wit to survive and reshape the collapsing Roman world, driven more by ingenuity than dread.

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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick · 1962

An alternate-1962 America under Axis occupation, rendered through quiet, paranoid interiority rather than action — a philosophical thriller where the I Ching, forged antiques, and

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The Guns of the South

Harry Turtledove · 1992

An alternate-history Civil War premise powered by a single audacious what-if: AK-47s in Confederate hands.

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The legion of time

Jack Williamson · 1952

Reads adventurous in the same way — and goes just as deep on time travel and alternate history.

Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · 2009

An alternate-1914 adventure that swaps trench warfare for clanking war-machines versus genetically-engineered beasts, following a fugitive prince and a girl-disguised-as-a-boy airman whose paths collide.

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About Killing Time — what the genome says

Is Killing Time a complete story or a cliffhanger?

The main arc resolves, with wider series threads left open.

How scary is Killing Time?

Creepy and atmospheric rather than gory or traumatizing.

Who is Killing Time for?

Star Trek fans wanting a dramatic Kirk/Spock role-reversal alternate-timeline adventure

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