OOC THAT IS SO FUCKING BRILLIANT . I HATE YOU . <| sep |> I voted for him once . I ' ll admit my mistake . I was young , dumb , and trapped in an echo chamber . <| sep |> I don ' t want tyranny open world where it ' s all about collectibles . I want it like fallout new vegas or skyrim where the world is fiiled story quest and history of kyros and tyranny lore . <| sep |> Poul Anderson ' s initial Time Patrol stories the ones collected in The Guardians of Time were classics of the timetravel genre . I didn ' t like the later books Time Patrolmen and The Shield of Time as much . If you find the idea of an agency whose job is to deal with time travellers , and you ' re not allergic to Star Trek novels , I highly recommend Christopher L . Bennett ' s DTI Department of Temporal Investigations booksstories . They are , in publication order , Watching the Clock , Forgotten History , The Collectors , and Time Lock . That ' s also roughly the inseries chronological order , though as we ' re talking timetravel stories here , there ' s obviously a good bit of jumping about the main part of the series is set in the current ST novel era i . e . , a few years past the end of DS 9 and Voyager , but Forgotten History in particular has a lot of flashbacks to Capt . Kirk ' s era and how the timetravel incidents he was involved in led the Federation to decide they needed something like the DTI in the first place . James P . Hogan ' s Thrice Upon a Time has an interesting variation on time travel not actual time travel itself , but crosstime communication i . e . , you can ' t go yourself , but you can send email to someone earlier and hope they do whatever it is you want to do to change the timeline .