What if you could change history - but only ten times?
When a narrator discovers the power to step into the past, he is bound by a single, immutable rule: only ten interventions are allowed. Each change bends the course of humanity in ways both wondrous and troubling.
The Library of Alexandria survives, and science leaps forward centuries early.
Ashoka's heirs unify India into a Buddhist superpower.
The Roman Empire never falls, reshaping Europe and the Americas.
The Black Death is stopped before it spreads.
Columbus meets equals, not subjects, in the New World.
The Industrial Revolution runs on clean energy, not coal.
A bullet misses in Sarajevo, sparing the world two global wars.
Hitler is silenced before his rise.
The Indian subcontinent remains whole, never Partitioned.
And finally, humanity in the 20th century chooses Earth, averting climate collapse.
But every act of mercy carries a shadow: if suffering shapes wisdom, what happens when suffering is erased? Did the Timekeeper save humanity - or rob it of its lessons?
The Timekeeper's Dilemma is a sweeping journey across ten alternate histories, part historical epic, part moral meditation. It asks the question at the heart of time itself:
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